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OT: Coronavirus Resources - and other things to not worry about

Covid cope psychology > Zadina psychology

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âCOVID isnât done with usâ: So why have so many people started rolling the dice?

Fewer than a quarter of Americans said they were ‘definitely’ planning to get the latest vaccine.
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“COVID deaths are actually worse now than when we were all freaking out about it in the first week of March 2020, but we’re habituated to it, so we tolerate the risk in a different way. It’s not scary to us anymore,” said Annie Duke, a former professional poker player, and author of books about cognitive science and decision making. “We’re just used to it.” Flu, for example, continues to kill thousands of people every year, but we have long become accustomed to that.
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In addition to a person’s own situation, there is another factor when people evaluate risk factors and COVID: their tribe. “Groupthink” happens when people defer to their social and/or political peers when making decisions. In a 2020 paper, social psychologist Donelson R. Forsyth cited “high levels of cohesion and isolation” among such groups, including “group illusions and pressures to conform” and “deterioration of judgment and rationality.”
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Risk or no risk, “COVID isn’t done with us,” Emily Landon, an infectious-diseases specialist at the University of Chicago, told MarketWatch. “Just because people aren’t dying in droves does not mean that COVID is no big deal. That’s an error in judgment. Vaccination and immunity is enough to keep most of us out of the hospital, but it’s not enough to keep us from getting COVID. What if you get COVID again and again? It’s not going to be great for your long-term health.”
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Leafyblue said:
Is anybody else sick AF and it's not COVID? :sick:
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It's never ending illness, yeah, which is typical in the first couple months of school. A lot of stuff is going around right now. And covid itself is surging big time too. Anecdotally the symptoms are sounding a lot less pleasant than early omicron. Having one extra virus that circulates in high numbers 365 days a year and happens to be the most (or one of the most) severe sux.
 


This was a lovely defensive center in his day. Quite frankly the vaccine is what created most of his issues. Though it did start with an infection.
 
Preston said:


This was a lovely defensive center in his day. Quite frankly the vaccine is what created most of his issues. Though it did start with an infection.
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Reading all his comments re: spike proteins, ivermectin, vaccines... I'm kind of skeptical of his account tbh.
 
hockeylover said:
Reading all his comments re: spike proteins, ivermectin, vaccines... I'm kind of skeptical of his account tbh.
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Yeah hard to know for sure. There are legit accounts of the vaccine making long covid worse as it stimulates an already over-active immune response. But who knows about him since he's an ivermectin stan.

In saying that when your world is turned upside down you will literally try anything. So I don't blame him for giving it a go tbh.
 
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