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Yes I know that, the point I was making was that the lockdown itself brought on a host of anxiety disorders.

carapace 6y ago
My point is that "the lockdown" isn't causing anxiety disorders. Why can my 81-year old mother walk her dog with only a mask on, while you get a sniffle and wind up in the ER? You're malfunctioning one way by having an irrational reaction to quarantine, and a second way by attributing that abreaction to the quarantine and not to your personal history. You need a psychologist not a meal from a restaurant, eh? I probably sound unsympathetic, and I apologize for that. Panic attacks are a serious problem, and I do sympathize with you. My own anxiety revolves around my mom dying in agony with her lungs filling with fluid... Please maintain quarantine and treat your personal psychological issues with a beer or a joint or some breathing exercises or meditation or a nice nap or perhaps a bath. You know, something with a low risk of propagating a deadly virus to innocent people that have never done you any harm, eh what?
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- captain_price7 6y ago
  > My point is that "the lockdown" isn't causing anxiety disorders. It absolutely is- doctors, scientists have been warning about it from the beginning, including ones who strongly supported lockdown. Trivializing it as "your personal psychological issues"- yes that's very unsympathetic. And it also betrays ignorance, you can't just treat mental health issues with a beer.
  - carapace 6y ago
    Do you think a phobia of cats is caused by cats? You have to realize that virus-causes-death and lockdown-causes-anxiety attacks are two different kinds of "cause". I mean, on some level they're both just cells malfunctioning, eh? But these two orders of causality are not the same. > you can't just treat mental health issues with a beer. First of all, yes you jolly well can. Second, the cure for anxiety attacks may not be beer but it surely is not "break quarantine". That just transfers the anxiety onto the vulnerable. It's a B.S. argument founded in myopic selfishness.
- ulisesrmzroche 6y ago
  If your 81 year old mother can go walk her dog with only a mask on, how can it be so deadly that this guy needs to quarantine himself? Serious disconnect here with the pro lockdown side
  - carapace 6y ago
    She's brave enough to risk walking her dog. She should stay home, and she's curtailed a lot of other activities she used to participate in (like hanging out at the local cafe), but she personally draws the line at walking the dog. It's a calculated risk. Our neighbor is sparsely populated, the streets are wide and there are lawns, people are good about walking in the street to pass her, we live near the ocean so there's a constant breeze blowing in fresh clean air, and so on. This guy is letting his mind play tricks on him and then using that to argue that quarantine isn't important to prevent the spread of the global pandemic that is still killing people.

My point is that "the lockdown" isn't causing anxiety disorders. Why can my 81-year old mother walk her dog with only a mask on, while you get a sniffle and wind up in the ER? You're malfunctioning one way by having an irrational reaction to quarantine, and a second way by attributing that abreaction to the quarantine and not to your personal history. You need a psychologist not a meal from a restaurant, eh? I probably sound unsympathetic, and I apologize for that. Panic attacks are a serious problem, and I do sympathize with you. My own anxiety revolves around my mom dying in agony with her lungs filling with fluid... Please maintain quarantine and treat your personal psychological issues with a beer or a joint or some breathing exercises or meditation or a nice nap or perhaps a bath. You know, something with a low risk of propagating a deadly virus to innocent people that have never done you any harm, eh what?

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captain_price7 6y ago
> My point is that "the lockdown" isn't causing anxiety disorders. It absolutely is- doctors, scientists have been warning about it from the beginning, including ones who strongly supported lockdown. Trivializing it as "your personal psychological issues"- yes that's very unsympathetic. And it also betrays ignorance, you can't just treat mental health issues with a beer.
- carapace 6y ago
  Do you think a phobia of cats is caused by cats? You have to realize that virus-causes-death and lockdown-causes-anxiety attacks are two different kinds of "cause". I mean, on some level they're both just cells malfunctioning, eh? But these two orders of causality are not the same. > you can't just treat mental health issues with a beer. First of all, yes you jolly well can. Second, the cure for anxiety attacks may not be beer but it surely is not "break quarantine". That just transfers the anxiety onto the vulnerable. It's a B.S. argument founded in myopic selfishness.
ulisesrmzroche 6y ago
If your 81 year old mother can go walk her dog with only a mask on, how can it be so deadly that this guy needs to quarantine himself? Serious disconnect here with the pro lockdown side
- carapace 6y ago
  She's brave enough to risk walking her dog. She should stay home, and she's curtailed a lot of other activities she used to participate in (like hanging out at the local cafe), but she personally draws the line at walking the dog. It's a calculated risk. Our neighbor is sparsely populated, the streets are wide and there are lawns, people are good about walking in the street to pass her, we live near the ocean so there's a constant breeze blowing in fresh clean air, and so on. This guy is letting his mind play tricks on him and then using that to argue that quarantine isn't important to prevent the spread of the global pandemic that is still killing people.