Our brains on coronavirus

Life is full of decisions. Stop to help that person? Buy that house? Sell those stocks? See what it's like to go over Niagara Falls in a barrel? We constantly weigh costs and benefits with thought experiments to imagine what the consequences of different choices might be, and emotion experiments to imagine how different outcomes would feel. All so that when we come to one of those junctures in life, we won't be haunted by having made the wrong choice between a Coke or Pepsi.