Russ Roberts: belief

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…That’s what I’m doing with my Law class, yes. When I encourage people to self isolate, which I did in the early beginning as a response to what I felt was not much of a governmental response initially, I felt there’s a lot we could do to reduce risk individually and voluntarily. So I was encouraging people to do that. Being aware of the fact that for me, it’s not much of a burden. I mean the whole crisis for me right now other than anxiety and worries about the future of the country and death of my loved ones who are even older than I am and other people’s loved ones, they main effect is that on Friday I impulsively went to Costco, which was better than Sunday I think. Spent an hour waiting to check out. It was really a fascinating cultural experience. The lines went to the back of the store and then snaked around a little bit. There was plenty of stuff on the shelves except for maybe toilet paper. I think everything else was pretty much in stock, but it’s not a hard burden for me. I think it’s just important to say that up front. It’s not hard for me to work from home. I have no financial worries in this crisis. I think it’s important to try to remember that other people are not like us. That’s a good rule generally, but it’s especially important I think right now. I agree with that, but I think it will become hard for you most likely and hard for virtually everyone. So imagine keeping on doing what you’re doing through a some greater number of months, imposing similar restrictions on your family, having to make some number of fairly stressful decisions along the way. Let’s talk again in June how hard or easy this is, right? So we’re used to going outside and interacting with people face to face and-…

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