When “Unprecedented” Horrors Become the Norm, How Do We Live?
Harnessing the brain’s ability to adapt for a better future
Published in
6 min readSep 2, 2021
In May 2020, the New York Times published the names of 100,000 people, all of whom had died of Covid-19 in the U.S. by that date. They called it, then, an incalculable loss. In August 2021, forecasts by Model predicted that the U.S. would see another 100,000…