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Humans are optimistic because the world hasn't ended yet and they have made it this far. That run, while falling short of proof, is nevertheless strong enough to support a conjecture that we are meant for something, which BTW, the virus has yet to refute.

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Indeed one of the striking things about this pandemic is how little of our survival we owe to politicians. If we were dependent on them we should have died out long ago. Rather we'll survive this pandemic due to some deep antifragility in nature.
Optimism is just the realization that our survival doesn't depend on the people on TV. If it did we would label it 'despair'. What survival actually depends on is something of a mystery.
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