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People are habitual creatures, not rational.
When we lost power for 2 weeks during the ice storm, my grandmother refused to let us run a space heater in her room from a genset. She kept referring to the utilities estimate that power would be restored by 5pm on Sunday (in just a few hours). Look out the window. There's 2 miles of down power lines. You don't fix 2 miles of down power lines out in the boonies in a few hours when cities have priority.
She wouldn't put on extra warm clothes. Stuck to her routine. Believed power was coming on any moment for 2 weeks. The cold weakened her and she fell, ending her ability to live at home, and necessitating the move to a care home. She lost ability to walk several weeks later.
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