When responding to a crisis like COVID, no one can act in a silo. The virus is harmful to everyone & so are the aftershocks: lost wages, healthcare costs, businesses shutting down, mental health, & potential environmental degradation.

Recovery planning must be multidisciplinary.

You can look at examples of complex, interconnected risks of climate change, or a pandemic where a pathogen is food or airborne and find the same response time and again.

People do not react in alignment to the reality of the risk. They consistently over or under react.

Policies based on public reactions– as opposed to real risk –result in policymaking not entrenched in data, but in public perceptions. Understanding and anticipating real risks versus human behavioral responses is helpful and mandatory in responding to a pandemic.