Posted on 09/20/2020 11:18:38 AM PDT by daniel1212
As the COVID-19 pandemic unfolds across the world, the scientific community has focused on understanding the transmission, biology, and treatment of the novel Coronavirus (SARS-CoV-2). To date, empirical investigations of the mental health impact of this collective trauma represent less than 3% of the published literature, (1) even though the pandemic, including its associated social and economic fallout, represents a mental health crisis of unprecedented scope and scale. (2) Globally, COVID-19 has left hundreds of millions of people at risk for serious illness or death, (3) isolated in their homes, (4) and without jobs or income. These circumstances place people living with anxiety, depression or other mental health challenges at especially high risk for worsening symptoms and suicide. (2, 5–7)...
previous research demonstrates that exposure to media coverage of collective traumas such as mass violence, (9, 10) infectious disease outbreaks, (11) or natural disasters, (12) may be a double-edged sword that can inform the public while simultaneously amplifying stress symptoms, worry, and perceived risk, with significant implications for public health. (13–15)...
analyses of helpline usage data suggest that stricter lockdown orders were associated with more loneliness, anxiety, and suicidal ideation among German helpline users. (17) However, analysis of GoogleTrends data suggests that stay-at-home orders may have flattened rising distress as the number of distress-related searches in the U.S. plateaued soon after the lockdowns began. (18) At present, little is known about the relative impact of these various exposures–direct, media-driven, or community wide – on individuals’ early pandemic-related psychological responses.
From a methodological perspective, the relatively small body of literature addressing COVID-19-related mental health issues has significant flaws that call into question the validity and utility of the findings...Beginning on March 18, 2020 and across the next 30 days, we conducted a rigorous rapid-response study of three consecutive probability-based, nationally representative cohorts in the U.S. (see Fig. 1)
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We provide evidence that between March 18th and April 18th, 2020, as the rates of COVID-19 positive cases and deaths increased substantially across the U.S., COVID-19-related acute stress and depressive symptoms increased over time in the U.S. These findings are consistent with studies linking the COVID-19 pandemic with declines in well-being around the globe. (5, 24, 25) Unlike other studies, our unique study design allowed us to examine population-based trends in the early psychological consequences of the COVID-19 pandemic as it unfolded using a large, representative, probability-based national sample on whom pre-pandemic mental and physical health data were available,,
First, results indicate that individuals with pre-existing mental and physical health diagnoses were more likely to exhibit both acute stress and depressive symptoms... Second, secondary stressors – job and/or wage loss, shortages of necessities – were strong predictors of both acute stress and depressive symptoms...
Third, consistent with recent COVID-19 studies, exposure to pandemic-related media coverage was associated with greater pandemic-specific acute stress and depressive symptoms. (2, 14)..
We demonstrate that the COVID-19 pandemic and the media environment surrounding it are associated with higher acute stress and depressive symptoms in three consecutive, large cross-sectional studies among representative samples of Americans. Importantly, we employed a nuanced approach to conceptualizing media exposure by assessing amount (from varied sources), content (conflicting information), and relative increase/decrease. The many potential downstream public health consequences of this unfolding, ambiguous pandemic stretch far beyond the number of cases and deaths directly due to the novel Coronavirus itself.
And here is much , by the grace of God, opposing the the national shutdown that was it was done.
Edit:...”the national shutdown the way it was done.”
Pinging some of you from the ping list of Impimp. Hope you do not mind.
To all these government bureaucrats - end this crap now !! open up everything !! and end all your mandates!!
We’re done with you ; over this crap ; over your power grab bull crap!!!!
The Fear was/is
Thick enough to
Cut with a Knife!
.
Thanks Democrats
and Media.
Your reward
Lies in a
Bottomless Pit of Fire.
“Pinging some of you from the ping list of Impimp. Hope you do not mind.”
I do not mind; I appreciate it. Thanks!
Just finished a webinar on Feline LUTS by a DVM from Ohio State. Huge emphasis on epigenitics and how significant events can literally change DNA. All the while I kept thinking about Covid’s lockdown, jobs, businesses, riots...and how this year’s ‘brick’ moments will show long-term ramifications of not only mental health, but the physical health manifestations as well.
I am trying to recover my ping list. If you have a partial list can u freepmail it to me?
At least 15% of the US voting population is mentally ill, and that was BEFORE the virus.
NSA stole your ping list
you will probably need to build it again from scratch
this time, store a copy on a thumb drive :)
No, i do not have one: I just looked at one of your past posts. Can you ask an Admin? Or maybe look at one of your posts that has a lot of replies and harvest some that you remember.
For just one example of unintended consequences: In my south-central Pennsylvania county opioid overdose deaths are up FIFTY percent over the same time period of 2019.
It was already well under way prior to this year, in my opinion. I think the internet is making people nuts.
Also, according to one meta-analysis of 42 studies involving 20 million people, the risk of death increases 63 percent when one loses their job, and that for every one percentage point increase in the unemployment rate, there are 37,000 deaths, mainly from heart attacks, but another 1,000 from suicides and another 650 from homicides.[92]
On Aug. 2[93] , it was reported that thirty-six of of the top 50 cities in America had a collective 24% jump in homicides this year compared to 2019, with a total of 3,612 murders in 2020 being reported so far.
And as concerns just suicide, we have reports such as “Calls to suicide and help hotline in Los Angeles increase 8,000% due to coronavirus,”[94] and “Doctors at John Muir Medical Center in Walnut Creek say they have seen more deaths by suicide during this quarantine period than deaths from the COVID-19 virus,”[95] In addition to which is a high increase of overdose in some places during COVID. [96]As well as well as significant rise in divorces. [97] Linked here .
2 OD’s and 2 Suicides, and ZERO COVID Cases in my tiny mobile-home park of 36 units since the quarantine.
See, quarantines work to prevent COVID. As if that is all that matters. Short term gain, long term loss. As with sin.
“As With Sin”...
Yep.
I am also concerned with long term effects of little kids wearing masks and not hugging their friends. Little kids need smiles and hugs. Actually so do adults.
It’s called systematic dehumanization.
Then desensitize them further with shoot-em up video games...
O wait, we’ve already done that part.
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