This mental health professional has written a dense, fact-laden, well-reasoned piece that concludes, in essence, that the near-panic COVID response is driven by individuals with pre-existing mental health issues.
I mean, we really don’t know much about omicron, except that it is substantially less lethal than delta and the original virus, but we’re (well, not me) nonetheless in full panic mode.
Then, he concludes as follows:
A functional society can not be mired in fear if it expects to end the pandemic which equates to learning to live with an endemic virus. Sensible off-rampsthat emphasize fewer restrictions guided by a pre-pandemic way of life are needed. However, to the degree that a society’s ruling class is comprised of and influenced by a polity (which presumably placed them in a position of power) that are disproportionately more likely to carry a latent vulnerability to experience anxiety, fear, and a more general lowered threshold for emotional lability, the more likely a panic-laden, punitive, and ultimately inefficient response to the pandemic is likely to result.
jdhaltigan.substack.com
Sound familiar?
We’re to blame for allowing people with a latent vulnerability to experience anxiety (Karens and snowflakes, other assorted nutcases) to set the rules, which don’t work and are unnecessarily punitive and restrictive.
In other words, the patients are truly in charge of the asylum. |
