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The Behavioral Immune System: Protecting Against Pathogens and Authoritarian Pandemic Responses
The emotion of disgust, the sense of contamination and the repulsion we feel for things that are disgusting is the way the immune system protects us against pathogens./nPathogen transmission is extremely dangerous and has caused massive deaths in history./nThe behavioral immune system extends itself at a political level and is apparent in authoritarian pandemic responses./nChina spearheaded the authoritarian pandemic response./nThere is a parallel danger that the response may be dangerous.