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How do you help people stay rational in a pandemic?

With billions of people around the world living in lockdown conditions – how do we help people stay rational during a pandemic?

Last month, everyday supermarket items turned into valuable and vanishing commodities overnight – none more so than toilet paper. There are now billions of us around the world living in lockdown conditions, a situation we’ve not been prepared for. And we seem to be in this for the long haul. In this week’s Inquiry, we’ll be asking how we can help people stay rational in a pandemic.

Presenter/Producer: Sandra Kanthal

(Empty shelves in the aisles of a CO-OP store in Kent, UK March 14, 2020 due to the Coronavirus outbreak. Photo credit: Robin Pope/ Getty Images)

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Sun 19 Apr 202004:06GMT
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