Do you remember ‘Mother Abigail’ who posted here around the time of the first SARS? A retired CDC scientist who had worked on Ebola and other scary as hell bugs. She believed that we were due for a near-extinction bug to hit us. She said it would be respiratory because those spread the fastest. And probably a hybrid flu like 1918 because those are the most efficient killers. Covid-19 isn’t it, but it’s headed in the same direction.
I certainly do.
She has not posted since 2012.
I hope she’s okay.
*courtesy ping
"... Nudge is a concept in behavioral economics, political theory, and behavioral sciences which proposes positive reinforcement and indirect suggestions as ways to influence the behavior and decision making of groups or individuals. Nudging contrasts with other ways to achieve compliance, such as education, legislation or enforcement....'
The nudge concept was popularized in the 2008 book Nudge: Improving Decisions About Health, Wealth, and Happiness, by two American scholars at the University of Chicago: behavioral economist Richard Thaler and legal scholar Cass Sunstein. It has influenced British and American politicians. Several nudge units exist around the world at the national level (UK, Germany, Japan and others) as well as at the international level (e.g. World Bank, UN, and the European Commission[2]). It is disputed whether “nudge theory” is a recent novel development in behavioral economics or merely a new term for one of many methods for influencing behavior, investigated in the science of behavior analysis.[3][4]