How Careful are Americans in the Age of Covid-19? How we Engage in Other Activities Serve as Proxies

“Feb. 29, 2020: 1st death reported in United States.”

I’ll use that date as my start date. Today is Day 87 of COVID-19 here in the U.S., and it is bringing out the best and the worst of Americans. Behold who we are! Lots of careful people mixed in with others willing to take risks. On average, it appears that individual Americans are responding to COVID-19 with the same degree of care that we display when we A) drive our cars, B) take care of our bodies C) nurture the environment and D) fill our brains with TV shows.

Why would we expect anything different?

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Erich Vieth

Erich Vieth is an attorney focusing on civil rights (including First Amendment), consumer law litigation and appellate practice. At this website often writes about censorship, corporate news media corruption and cognitive science. He is also a working musician, artist and a writer, having founded Dangerous Intersection in 2006. Erich lives in St. Louis, Missouri with his two daughters.

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