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Thanks for all of these epic rants, they are pretty darn articulate, and full of tasty taboo claims that are much appreciated by the angry minority on this issu

Thanks for all of these epic rants, they are pretty darn articulate, and full of tasty taboo claims that are much appreciated by the angry minority on this issue. Joe Rogan and Bob Saget were talking about how "everyone" has been having COVID panic attacks and nightmares. What happened to people? How did hypochondria become a mainstream lifestyle in the safest place and time in human history?

__blockcipher__ 6y ago
Heh, thanks. Indeed, I've observed what I would describe as symptoms of OCD, germaphobia, and agoraphobia in a shockingly high percentage of the population. And of my friends that were already agoraphobic and germaphobic, they've now had their lifestyles retroactively justified by this thing, so it's going to make it way worse for the people that already had it too. (I have one friend who is a germaphobe but not where it really interferes with their life, and they adopt the correct attitude of "well I can't really control this (germaphobia, not COVID-19 to be clear) but I'm not going to pretend it's a good thing" - they've stayed much more resilient through this than one might expect)
__blockcipher__ 6y ago
Oh and if I can add, the number of friends of mine who have reported feeling shortness of breath as a symptom is staggering. Pretty hilarious that one of the classic COVID-19 symptoms is also a classic anxiety symptom. We've created an environment ripe for massive psychosomatic/psychogenic illness.