Posted on 05/17/2020 3:51:12 AM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer
Anxieties and fears will undoubtedly heighten for Americans as more states reopen under the novel coronavirus crisis, despite no vaccine and not enough widespread testing.
Yet like the virus' impact, the psychological impact of reopening will be disproportionate. It is bound to deepen the already-stark divide in the country between the haves and the have-nots -- those who can choose when they'd like to return to normal life and those who have been deemed essential to keep working.
"The haves have a choice and the have-nots do not have a choice," Dr. Priscilla Dass-Brailsford, an associate professor of psychology at Georgetown University School of Medicine, told ABC News.
Dass-Brailsford said the majority of Americans will experience some form of anxiety, fear or paranoia as they step back out into the world.
"I wonder whether this person has COVID-19," she said some will think as they interact with more people.
"You're gonna hit the elevator buttons with your elbows… Some of us, I think, will continue to wear face masks" even after the pandemic is over, she added.
"You wish you could turn the clock back and things could just be the same thing," she said.
With the coronavirus outbreak, these anxieties are heightened, because the finish line still looks blurry.
"If it's a car accident or a terrorist bombing, you know how many people died," she said. "With this pandemic, this one in particular, we do not have an endpoint."
(Excerpt) Read more at abcnews.go.com ...
Priscilla Dass-Brailsford, EdD, MPH, studies the effects of trauma and violence and other stressful events, especially whether individuals from historically oppressed or stigmatized groups experience unique stressors or exhibit culturally specific coping processes.
What a pointless pant load.
Interestingly, except for a relatively few cases, these “have nots” doing their jobs are not collapsing dead from wuhan flu.
That should be a point well taken.
All these people are stressed out little children filled with fear and need to be covered in bubble wrap and protected!
Was that one of the intentions of the CCP Power Grab? Infantilize everyone? We are supposed to cling to Mommy Government for protection and sustenance?
This hyphenated-blowhard would have made a great propagandist for the Third Reich.
Dass-Brailsford said the majority of Americans will experience some form of anxiety, fear or paranoia as they step back out into the world.
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Without evidence.
Further instilling fear and allowing those who buy into this a comfortable place to claim inequality, racism and a means for the government to take care of them for ever.
Must be awful depressing to live with those thoughts. The liberal world view is that everything is garbage, nothing has any value and we’re all doomed, women and minorities hit hardest.
The difference between “haves” and “have-nots” is not the stuff...it is the hunger for MORE stuff.
Ten bucks says that Patty hasn’t missed a single penny from a single paycheck since this started.
The same folks were concerned not about the psychological effects of being deprived of an income by government decree, nor the psychological toll on the whole family from that, particularly the more marginalized workers who had what they saw as a job and now don’t.
Sometimes you really don’t need to read any further than the first sentence.
It begins with the assumption of a false premise and builds off it. I think the MSM is starting to see this slip away from them and is trying to double down on fear as a last ditch effort. Fear something, anything!
Let’s reexamine the “haves” and “have nots” with a finer lens.
The “have nots” are those who are on the verge of losing everything if they can’t reopen and try to salvage what’s left of their shuttered businesses.
The “haves” are their furloughed employees they attempt to call back who are wanting to stay unemployed while enjoying better wages than they made working.
Of course before long, they’ll all be “have nots” but understanding that kind of logic is the reason one was the employer while the other was the employee.
The haves are those with enough money and resources to stay in lockdown forever because some democrat politician said so.
The have-nots are the majority of people who are forced into lockdown and have lost their jobs or businesses. They don’t have money or resources except what the government will “loan” them, which their children and grand children will have to pay back in droves.
Well said.
To this point, academics have also been in the protected class, although if the shutdowns persist into the fall semester, the hurt will start to spread in the colleges. Some may fail.
Societies work best when the interests of the ruling class are aligned at least approximately with the interests of the ruled. If I could wave a magic wand, I'd decree that the average salary of government workers not exceed the average salary of people in the private sector. I would withhold all federal aid of any sort to states and municipalities that exceeded this limit, or in which pay for any employee exceeds the federal maximum. (If California wants to pay for public employees whose compensation packages are north of $500,000 a year, California can do so, but on its own nickel.) I would also adjust public employees' pay to reflect the rise and fall of average income in the private sector. No more automatic COLAs. If private sector wages rise one percent, that's the pay increase for the feds. If governors shut down the economy and private sector average income collapses, adjust government employee pay downward. Nonessential public sector workers who have been laid off in the lockdowns should go on unemployment exactly like everyone else; they should not be getting unscheduled paid vacation.
The politics would change overnight. The politics won't change unless or until our lords and masters share the pain.
“...the haves and the have-nots — those who can choose when they’d like to return to normal life and those who have been deemed essential to keep working.”
I’m fortunate in that my job is one of the “essential” ones, so I’ve been working throughout. In my opinion, that makes me one of the haves. I know that a great many people would like to be able to “choose when they’d like to return to normal life”, i.e. make a living again.
I refuse to live in fear and will not be manipulated by fear.’
There is no “Pandemic” clause in the constitution.
I am a citizen, not a serf, and I am an intelligent self responsible adult, and it is insulting and offensive to not let me make my own decisions.
Well, if the have not’s didn’t elect tyrants to office for governor etc, then they wouldn’t be have not’s.
They are reaping what they sowed.
Got out and got a haircut yesterday. I can't describe the level of fear an anxiety I had because, well, there was none. I ain't gettin' no vaccine either.
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