Our brain’s weak response to invisible threats could explain public laxity, though Kerala had an answer One of the most pertinent questions to have arisen during this Covid-19 crisis is why so many people, from world leaders to ordinary citizens, have treated the threat so casually.
Local authorities in Wuhan did not take ophthalmologist Dr. Li Wenliang’s warning of the new virus seriously. This could be attributed to low awareness of the virus and how contagious it was.
But by the time the disease reached Italy, more than a month had passed. By the time it reached the shores of the US, thousands around the world had died.