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What COVID-19 has taught me is people really have different levels of risk tolerance. I'm realizing I am very risk prone. Omicron never scared me and I got it.
by fasteddie31003 5y ago
What COVID-19 has taught me is people really have different levels of risk tolerance. I'm realizing I am very risk prone. Omicron never scared me and I got it. It was so mild, I would have thought I was hung over if I didn't have a home test. On the other hand we had a guest visit us from SF who really hasn't left his apartment during the whole pandemic from being terrified of the virus. His personality has changed for the worst. He is much more anti-social now and it was difficult to even have a simple conversation with him. He wears a face shield and double masks. Being so risk adverse as to become a recluse has really impacted his mental health negatively probably worse than getting COVID.
- ramoz 5y ago
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- JPKab 5y agoI refer to these excessively risk averse people as "branch covidians". It's dumb, corny, and not that funny, but it helps me appropriately pity them instead of being angry at them. Isolation can foster a negative feedback loop of excessive media consumption, and the media is filled with quantitatively illiterate mid-wits who grossly exaggerated the risk for healthy, non elderly people. Fear is the mind killer indeed.
- Kiro 5y agoI've also become a recluse but I love it and have never been happier.