Car accidents do not pose systemic risk, a super contagious virus with a fatality rate of ~1-2% definitely does. I think a misunderstanding of this phenomenon (

Car accidents do not pose systemic risk, a super contagious virus with a fatality rate of ~1-2% definitely does. I think a misunderstanding of this phenomenon (risk comes in different flavors!!) combined with an inability to grok exponential growth is really gonna screw us over, both in the next few months and more generally as a species.