Life Is Now a Dark Game of Would You Rather

A scientific way to assess pandemic threats

Kayt Sukel
Forge
Published in
4 min readSep 30, 2020

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Students wearing face masks getting their temperature checked at school.
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So much of life now seems like a rather dark game of Would You Rather? This summer, my husband and I asked ourselves: Would we rather send our kids back to school where they’ll benefit from traditional instruction and social interactions — but also potentially pick up and bring home a viral infection? Or would we…

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Kayt Sukel
Forge
Writer for

Author THE ART OF RISK (NatGeo, 2016) and THIS IS YOUR BRAIN ON SEX (S&S, 2013). Explorer. Mom. Nerd. What you see is what you get.