COVID-19 has laid bare how social inequality in urban centers leads our most vulnerable to be most heavily hit by crisis.
Posts published by “Shawn O'Connor”
Shawn is a recent graduate of the Public Affairs and Policy Management program at Carleton University with a focus on Global Economic Relations and a Minor in Economics.
When we decide to act upon a goal and new information becomes available, we should rethink, but often don't. Rather than altering our course of action, our vision narrows and we double-down - often by referring to how those around us are behaving. Cognitive biases like this can be found in the missteps of state responses to COVID.