Interview · moment 14 of 26
COVID Resilience, Vaccines, and Rare Mass Shootings
from #249 - Jordan Peterson | The Tim Dillon Show · #249
4 min
Guest
Peterson praises society's resilience through lockdowns and rapid vaccine development, then discusses the statistical rarity of mass shootings despite their visibility, and differences in male versus female aggression.
- Tim notes how resilient social and economic structures have proven during the pandemic lockdown.
- Vaccination rates climbing to around 35 percent in the US should start making a real difference soon.
- Tim is surprised by how quickly vaccines were developed and distributed without catastrophic side effects.
- Signs of instability in the US are attributable to factors other than COVID that have been brewing for a long time.
- Tim jokes that his biggest disappointment with mass shootings is they're done primarily by men, keeping women out of another field like STEM.
- School shooters represent such an infinitesimal percentage of the population that it's very difficult to formulate policy around something so rare and unpredictable.
- Males are disproportionately violent compared to females in physical violence, though females have their own form of aggression centered on reputation destruction.
- With 330 million people in the US, one person in a million being seriously disturbed would equal a shooting per day, so the actual rate is less than that.