The Psychological Reasons Why Everyone Is Making Dumb Decisions About Covid

Blame our faulty brains. Luckily, there are ways to get out of the most common mental traps.

Anirudh (Ani) Kedia
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5 min readOct 25, 2020

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Group of friends hugging in person, no face masks.
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Until there’s a safe and widespread vaccine rollout, the greatest weapons we have against the pandemic are the decisions we make every day. The bad news about this is that humans are…

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Anirudh (Ani) Kedia
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