Thomas Harrington: How Did Our Society Become So Fearful? | TEASER | American Thought Leaders

🔴TRY IT NOW just by signing up with your email at Epoch TV👉 https://ept.ms/0120ThomasHarrington1 Early on in the pandemic, the data was clear. There was a thousand-fold difference in fatality rates for the elderly versus the young. Yet public policy and public health messaging largely ignored this. In fact, many Americans, when polled, have a highly exaggerated estimation of the risk COVID-19 poses to them. So what explains this disproportionate reaction? One man who’s meditated on this very question for the past several months is Thomas Harrington, a professor of language and culture studies at Trinity College and a contributing…