Interpersonal trust, the one factor that predicts which countries best survive Covid

Trust thought for today - Wow, see how important interpersonal trust is to covid. This is SO interesting. Will have to think more about this one.

Interpersonal trust, the one factor that predicts which countries best survive Covid

The best "predictor of how many people would die – or survive – during the pandemic is the level of interpersonal trust in a society.

This doesn’t mean trust in governments or institutions: both have received lots of coverage during the past two years, and yet appear to have little effect. Rather it’s a measure of how much people think they can trust another citizen who they don’t already know.
At every stage in this pandemic, this kind of trust has been a vital resource. After two years we can now see clearly how important it was, raising the question of how we might build it up to deal with both the ongoing threat posed by Covid, and the next pandemic."

I missed TTFT for the first time in over a year yesterday, and think from now on will only post one if I think it really relevant. I was getting to be banging them out just because I committed to the daily post with variable results!