Quote:
Originally Posted by DJ's left nut
And to build on this just a little bit more.
I think there were some well meaning 'overestimates' at times as well.
If I'm looking to settle a case and I need $1,000 to do it, I'm not gonna come in asking for $1,000. I'm not gonna ask for $10,000 because I've overplayed my hand and blown everything out of the water.
But I'll ask for 2. I'll overstate the circumstances by a little to ensure that the situation is taken seriously. We all do it. It happens in football discussions all the time - remember the "ALEX SMITH IS MATT CASSEL 2.0!!!" days? Nobody really thought Alex Smith was Matt Cassel, but they said he was to demonstrate that he damn sure wasn't Patrick Mahomes. Sometimes that hand gets overplayed, sometimes it gets played just right.
But I think there were a lot of people who REALLY felt like this was being taken too lightly, and perhaps without cause. So they, consciously or subconsciously, played to the more dire consequences side of the ledger to push the responses as much as they could.
Just a theory...
|
With epidemiologist and virologist that's the way you're kind of trained. Prepare for the worst hope for the best kind of thing.