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Errors of excessive pessimism

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Mar 05, 2021
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Dr. Anthony Fauci, Mike Pence, and Donald Trump stand in front of a graphic titled "30 DAYS TO SLOW THE SPREAD" on March 31, 2020
(Win McNamee/Getty Images)

I think of this first week of March as my Coronavirus Anniversary Week because it’s the time when COVID-19 first started to really impinge on my life.

Back on March 2, 2020, I took the Amtrak up to New York so that I could speak at a big conference of all the Vox Media revenue teams happening at a hotel in Brooklyn on the morni…

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