like, obviously there are assholes who don't care, the conspiracy theorists who think it's exaggerated, etc. - but still I mean honestly asking humans to stay so isolated for 7 months without a definite end date is a really fucking intense thing to do.
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You might be more privileged than them. You might have regular access to a quarantined bubble community. You might be living in a slightly less locked down city. You might just naturally be better at isolation, or more mentally healthy in general. You might have more support.
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And again, obviously lives are at stake here. Obviously the small chance of killing someone else isn't worth you not falling apart. But like... at some point you gotta admit that it's really hard, the consequences aren't obvious, and irresponsible choices don't make people evil.
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There is definitely a cult aura around it
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But masks... come on, they aren't difficult.
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On one hand, spreading the disease is really bad, yes. On the other, numbers like these are infinitely worse than Covid’s. 68% anxiety and depression rate requiring significant medical intervention. https://www.uwhealth.org/news/more-than-two-thirds-of-high-school-athletes-report-anxiety-and-depression-since-pandemic/53429 … versus this: https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2020.06.10.20127423v1 …
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Pictured is Sweden’s all-cause deaths YoY and then US suicide deaths per 100k. Suicides kill youth at about 120 deaths per million. Current Covid deaths for youth are around 2 per million. 68% prevalence of suicide-inducing mental illness is a number you don’t fuck with.pic.twitter.com/woZ1Qos6f9
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Right. People are displaying varying degrees of “psychological immune response” to this situation. Ie their unconscious mind prevent them from facing the reality of the situation, because they are unable to handle it. Things are blurry enough that its easy to ditch rationality
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