“…How people perceive and then respond (e.g., via measures of acceptability or behavior) to all manner of risks—for example, climate change (Shi, Visschers, Siegrist, & Arvai, 2016), food (Segrè Cohen, Love, Nace, & Árvai, 2020), geoengineering (Visschers, Shi, Siegrist, & Arvai, 2017), nuclear power (de Groot et al. 2020), novel technologies (Lutzke & Árvai, 2021), and so on—has been studied extensively. However, it has been exceedingly rare that researchers are presented with an opportunity to study risk perceptions and behaviors in a context that is not only significant and salient, but one that affects virtually every living human at the same point in time.…”