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I've heard this, that and also blood clots forming in the brain. Maybe much more, we will see in upcoming years. Nasty disease
by saiya-jin 3y ago
I've heard this, that and also blood clots forming in the brain. Maybe much more, we will see in upcoming years. Nasty disease
- wahnfrieden 3y agoWhy do we now treat it like regular flu then?
- micromacrofoot 3y agothe economy
- wahnfrieden 3y agoyes, the relevant safety measures are in conflict with economic growth
- gmd63 3y ago* short-term economic growth
- mcpackieh 3y agoHaving most of the population holed up inside is bad for long-term economic growth too. Ineffectual internet-schooling replacing normal in-person schooling for more than a short time period would be particularly devastating to long-term economic growth.
- gmd63 3y agoThat's conjecture and based on intermediate metrics such as report cards / SAT scores
- saiya-jin 3y agoWell, mental illnesses skyrocketed. That messes up economy bad, long term in hard-to-calculate ways since people are not simply dropping dead and disappearing from economy. No they are still around, more or less successfully trying to integrate back, but requiring a lot of support resources that would be otherwise used in other cases, ramping up the medical costs, maybe even losing jobs, failed mortgages and so on. There you have it, one long term bad economical effect. There are many others, maybe even more significant.
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- gmd63 3y agoI don't think a rise in mental illness is entirely attributable to lockdowns. There are several ways this pandemic can affect mental state, such as: - COVID infection, virus messing with your brain - Disappointment from believing COVID is man made (regardless of whether true or not) - Death of someone close, remember that 1.1 million people have died from COVID in the United States alone - Disappointment that the lack of care for the vulnerable exposed a survival of the fittest nonchalance where some of the most able among us couldn't be bothered to breathe through an n95 to avoid a however negligible chance of someone dying
- micromacrofoot 3y agoThere's quite a lot of data that points to a decline in many places... literacy scores are lower, math scores are lower, etc. The effects appear to be quite bad, and haven't yet recovered in many places (especially among lower income groups). This will take some more time to distill with more accuracy, but lockdowns and remote schooling almost certainly had a negative impact. https://www.npr.org/2022/09/01/1120510251/reading-math-test-scores-pandemic https://www.npr.org/2022/09/01/1120510251/reading-math-test-...
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- IggleSniggle 3y agoMuch like victims of other natural disasters, there's an initial "oh shit this is huge" which eventually mellows out to "oh so this is just the new normal, and we're all just going to accept that we're going to be collectively even stupider."
- xeromal 3y agoBecause humans can't exist in a state of panic forever. We eventually fall into a new normal even if it's detrimental for us. > See: People having tea during during a long, drawn out war.
- wahnfrieden 3y agoWhat's panic have to do with taking safety measures?
- teeray 3y agoSociety suspended the activities of ordinary daily living as much as it could in hopes of diminishing or eliminating the risks posed by COVID. When that risk reduction encountered diminishing returns, society determined that the benefits of ordinary daily living outweighed the total risk posed by death or disablement by COVID and all other mortal threats we face daily.
- ChrisRR 3y agoBetter understanding of the disease and a more widely vaccinated populous. Flu is also a very nasty disease. I've only had it once in the last 10 years and my god I do not want it again.