Humans are, as a general rule, poor at changing their minds once they’ve developed a view about something. This can be the cause of plenty of arguments and I suspect is a significant reason we’ve become so much more polarized as a country in recent decades (that, and it’s ancillary effect of causing us to seek out only information and data that support our unbending view). But in the case of dealing with a pandemic like Covid-19 it can be downright dangerous. I thought it would be he...
