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With a public inquiry examining the UK Government’s handling of the Covid-19 pandemic due to take place in Spring 2022, there is one topic of conversation which has received far less attention than it ought: risk literacy.
Risk literacy (or rather, illiteracy) has played a far bigger role in this pandemic than many people realise. Whether it be through underestimation or overestimation of risk, many key moments since December 2019 have been affected by people’s risk illiteracy.
Arguably, risk illiteracy throughout this pandemic has been most apparent when it comes to underestimating particular threats, which have resulted in incorrect or late decisions and dire consequences. For example, in early 2020, many people (not just politicians) dismissed Covid-19 as a nasty bout of the flu.