Yes, precisely. This is why Trump's political response was so disastrous - telling people it would go away on its own, as their lives kept getting upended by longer and longer lockdowns.
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Well, one of the reasons.
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In Admiral Stockdale's book about being a POW in Vietnam, he theorized that the POWs who died in captivity were the ones who hoped and believed the VC that they would be released by Easter. By Christmas. By New Year's. They died, he said, of a broken heart.
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I recall an anecdote of a Soviet technique to break the will of a prisoner: give him a shower, fresh clothes, a hot meal, escort him to the prison exit, then yank him back just short of the door, dragging him back to his cell.
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