 December 16, 2020  More than 300,000 Americans have died of Covid-19 so far this year. If that number seems too big to really be able to handle, you're not alone — and it's not your fault that it's hard to make sense of that many deaths. The human brain just isn't well-equipped to handle it. Oh, we can visualize big approximate numbers, the way you know that 1,000 apples is a lot of apples.
But our brains struggle with large, exact numbers, Hayes Brown explains in his latest essay. That's not ideal in a pandemic when trying to convince people to change their behavior. But there are ways to keep your circuits from shorting out when trying to process the pandemic.
Find the full analysis at the top of Wednesday's MSNBC Daily section at MSNBC.com.
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