[kennywinker]

“ Americans embrace policies which they know will kill people, sometimes large numbers of people. They do so not because they are psychopaths but because they are rational”

Lol. People fear flying and not driving exactly because we’re irrational, not because we’re rational. People oppose lower speed limits for entirely emotional reasons - if we could understand how risky driving is we would fear it like so many of us fear flying, but we’ve learned to suspend our fear through normalization and technology (try driving 80mph in a motorcycle instead of a noise cancelled suv cab) I suspect covid will be fully normalized very soon. It’ll still kill people every year, but (largely due to vaccines) it’ll be small enough numbers that it’ll just fade into the background like all the car accidents that kill people every day.