[late night sincere chat] i think he tended to internalize scary things on the news, and that he did that partially bc of personality but also because he felt, like i suspect a lot of men feel, this intense pressure to protect his family, and the sense one couldn& #39;t do *too much* https://twitter.com/LeoBrok86/status/1254291577775755265">https://twitter.com/LeoBrok86...

i think you can analogize it to the educated, liberal anti-vax moms. probably no one experience made them that way. they just think: sure, maybe vaccine injuries are 1 in a million, but if it& #39;s my child, i don& #39;t care if it& #39;s & #39;rare& #39; overall. i& #39;m not going to risk it

so you& #39;re basically seeing people (fathers and mothers) who feel charged with this immense task of protecting their families/kids in different ways, and the pressure is very intense and it can distort perspective and produce unforch behavior out of good intentions