Off Topic Covid 19 restrictions have done one

Ever heard of Darwin.

 

What a disgusting thing to say.
Save your 'pathetic ****' diatribe, you knew what you were replying to.

 

Yes, you are the missing link.

 

And another **** off
I replied to the post, sensitive types look to be offended and well here you are as well. not surprised

 

There’s no offence taken to somebody who is happy to see other human beings die. It’s just a ****ing awful thing to say, it shows zero compassion, zero empathy and the signs of sociopathy.

There isn’t a law abiding human being in this country whose life is worth less than anybody else’s, certainly nobody whose life is worth less than a trip to the pub or having to put a mask on for a part of the day.

Once again, it’s that attitude that means we’ll not be shot of this virus like other places will. Just a miserable, selfish ****ing plague pit where people are more concerned about themselves than everybody else.

Good grief.

 

Oh the humanity.

 

The flip side is that some mental health experts think coronavirus fears may cause people with anxious tendencies to topple into a full-blown illness.

“What is likely to come of this is a lot of people who have underlying anxiety disorders — they’re going to start experiencing those,” Owens said. “We’re not only going to end up with lots of covid cases, we’re going to end up with lots of anxiety disorders out of this as well.”

 

I dare say people with anxiety would have been more anxious if we hadn’t have taken some of the measures we’d taken to keep infection rates down.

 

Link?

 

The recent COVID-19 pandemic has triggered a surge in anxiety across the globe. Much of the public’s behavioural and emotional response to the virus can be understood through the framework of terror management theory, which proposes that fear of death drives much of human behaviour. In the context of the current pandemic, death anxiety, a recently proposed transdiagnostic construct, appears especially relevant. Fear of death has recently been shown to predict not only anxiety related to COVID-19, but also to play a causal role in various mental health conditions. Given this, it is argued that treatment programmes in mental health may need to broaden their focus to directly target the dread of death. Notably, cognitive behavioural therapy (CBT) has been shown to produce significant reductions in death anxiety. As such, it is possible that complementing current treatments with specific CBT techniques addressing fears of death may ensure enhanced long-term symptom reduction. Further research is essential in order to examine whether treating death anxiety will indeed improve long-term outcomes, and prevent the emergence of future disorders in vulnerable populations.

 

When it's deemed safe to attend gatherings and be in close proximity to strangers again, Rajaee says it's important to take things slowly and start with small outings.

For instance, you may be more comfortable dining outdoors, so start there and "eventually work your way to dining indoors at a restaurant, if that is deemed safe in your region," she says.

"From there, begin to work your way slowly to higher level exposures, such as spending time with other fully vaccinated people or doing other activities deemed appropriate by the CDC." If that makes you nervous, spend 15 minutes in a group setting and progress to longer spans of time.

Rajaee says you may notice an uptick in anxious thoughts when doing these things, but remember that it is just the residual reaction of your brain's threat response, wanting to keep you safe. "These thoughts are not necessarily true," she says.

In fact, beginning to slowly push yourself back into normal life could actually be beneficial for your mental, physical and social well-being.

And since there is no way to be 100% sure that you will not get sick or get others sick, "complete certainty" about your safety cannot be the goal. "We only need to be sure enough," she says.

 

Chazz, I come in peace here. You are making yourself look daft.

 

What do you want me to link you to?

 

Is Rajaee the new Simon says?

 

No worries I’m entirely comfortable with how I am al.
I just pity some of the pathetic ****s in here who never want to step outside their front door ever again
I’ll just carry on living a normal life. Anddo the things I want to do and run the risk of dying.

 

Sod that. I'm having a go at living forever. So far, so good.

 

Uncharacteristically snide from you Ron thought you knew me better than that
I just couldn’t be arsed to post the full article

 

Well never ever go out wear a mask at all times avoid people all people wash your hands constantly
Enjoy

 

No offence intended
Did Google and read the full thing and generally agree, but if you are interested look up Freeston (?) take on 'Coronavirus Uncertainty' - notes the difference between 'normal' anxiety and impact of Covid, also impact of people over focusing on media / new media for information and feeling worse for it

 

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7308596/
The recent COVID-19 pandemic has caused an understandable surge in anxiety across the globe. Much of the behavioural response to COVID-19 can be understood through the lens of terror management theory, which argues that death anxiety drives much of human behaviour (Greenberg, 2012). From this perspective, reminders of death (of which there are many in the current pandemic), produce increases in attempts to avoid a physical death (such as by wearing protective gear or self-isolating) or ensure a symbolic immortality (such as by bolstering one’s cultural worldviews, and aggressing against those that threaten them). Death anxiety, which has recently been proposed to be a transdiagnostic construct (Iverach et al., 2014), appears to be more relevant now than ever before. In addition to predicting anxiety related to COVID-19 (Newton-John et al., 2020), fear of death has also been shown to play a causal role across a number of mental health conditions (Menzies and Dar-Nimrod, 2017; Menzies et al., 2020; Strachan et al., 2007).