That last part is key. They were led to believe that there was a much greater risk from the infection. If a more accurate picture had been given, or if they knew there were treatments, their inner risk:benefit calculation would have been different. We now have a year of public pronouncements to analyze, someone already did that several months ago, and coverage was much, much more negative (dooming) in the US than in Europe.
That last part is key. They were led to believe that there was a much greater risk from the infection. If a more accurate picture had been given, or if they knew there were treatments, their inner risk:benefit calculation would have been different. We now have a year of public pronouncements to analyze, someone already did that several months ago, and coverage was much, much more negative (dooming) in the US than in Europe.