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The stress of fearing a pandemic is perhaps quite different from the everyday stresses of work. We may find them both severe - even the fear much worse; but it
by emn13 6y ago
The stress of fearing a pandemic is perhaps quite different from the everyday stresses of work. We may find them both severe - even the fear much worse; but it's still conceivable the everyday stresses are worse specifically to the extent they influence birth weight. Perhaps everyday stress is more immediate; perhaps it's more physical; or perhaps it's more social - or perhaps we're grasping at straws and it's something else entirely.
In any case; just because a pandemic is stressful doesn't necessarily mean that stress that matters here isn't lower. All those various strains don't affect us in the same way.
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- bananaface 6y agoIt could also be that they are sleeping more, which people will try and shoehorn into: "that's a form of stress!" Stress is a buzzword, I'm wary of manhandling the theory too much as counterpoints come up, especially if it involves playing with semantics.
- emn13 6y agoExactly; stress isn't one clearly defined thing, and the forms do matter: therefore the focus on overall stress isn't that useful.
- bananaface 6y agoIt's worse than that: "it's stress" is a lexical tautology. By definition anything that causes a miscarriage was a stressor.