No One Knows What’s Going to Happen

Posted on AllSides May 22nd, 2020
From The Left
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OPINION

Stop asking pundits to predict the future after the coronavirus. It doesn’t exist.

The best prophet, Thomas Hobbes once wrote, is the best guesser. That would seem to be the last word on our capacity to predict the future: We can’t.

But it is a truth humans have never been able to accept. People facing immediate danger want to hear an authoritative voice they can draw assurance from; they want to be told what will occur, how they should prepare, and that all will be well. We are not well...

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https://www.nytimes.com/2020/05/22/opinion/coronavirus-prediction-future.html

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