Decision-making obstacles
Psychological reasons why we find decision-making difficult right now:
- The realness of the present threat: the new virus is really contagious and people are dying from it around the world.
- The amount of uncertainty about the virus: the real number of infected people, the speed of its spread, future projections.
- We have little control over the situation. This creates anxiety. In addition, we may be doing our part, but it is hard to know which actions and programs are having an impact on creating the absence of the disease.
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