Agreed. There's some good research out there that suggests people are really prone to quick decision-making when a major new variable gets introduced. So some people saw the pandemic and thought "big events like this don't just *happened.*" The Queensland researchers actually deal with this: The point to many climate change deniers as be…
Agreed. There's some good research out there that suggests people are really prone to quick decision-making when a major new variable gets introduced. So some people saw the pandemic and thought "big events like this don't just *happened.*" The Queensland researchers actually deal with this: The point to many climate change deniers as being victims of the 'just world fallacy.' That is, people think "humanity is good, therefore the world wouldn't do this to us." Ditto for COVID. The more horrible things that happened over those years — not being able to visit loved ones in hospital, losing friends to suicide, going back into lock down — pushed more and more people to think "there's no way things would be this bad if not for [X]" It's a trauma response.
Agreed. There's some good research out there that suggests people are really prone to quick decision-making when a major new variable gets introduced. So some people saw the pandemic and thought "big events like this don't just *happened.*" The Queensland researchers actually deal with this: The point to many climate change deniers as being victims of the 'just world fallacy.' That is, people think "humanity is good, therefore the world wouldn't do this to us." Ditto for COVID. The more horrible things that happened over those years — not being able to visit loved ones in hospital, losing friends to suicide, going back into lock down — pushed more and more people to think "there's no way things would be this bad if not for [X]" It's a trauma response.