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This negative narrative around men risks exacerbating the gender empathy gap, part of a wider unconscious bias against men, recently identified as an aspect of gamma bias.
Love, it turns out, remains an enduring mystery.
The lockdowns have impacted different classes differently.
In Pepys’s time a scarlet cross on the door denoted an infected household and sentinels stood guard outside to keep people inside.
Coronavirus is deadly, but it is not the bubonic plague, which had a mortality rate of 50 percent.
Twelve of the viruses that Geoghegan and her co-authors detected are potentially novel strains.
Most people were now wearing masks, and a few were obviously nervous about inadvertently drifting too close.
Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) has become the public face of such anxiety disorders.
If anyone bothers to look, there will probably be disparities between Catholics and Protestants.
Which brings us back to COVID-19. By one estimate, 80,000 Americans died from flu-related illnesses during the 2017 — 2018 flu season.
When people are dying horrible deaths in isolation from loved ones, and essential workers are putting themselves and their families at risk by going into danger zones, this isn’t the time to focus on how much we’ll “repay” young, healthy people who, though worried and unemployed, are safe at home.
If liberal strategies end up providing weaker results than illiberal ones, liberals might want to revise not only their COVID-19 policy, but also some of their broader assumptions about human nature.
Social isolation can be so stressful that it “disrupts brain development (in younger members of social species) and leads to mental health problems later in life.”
In some cases, the efforts of nurses and doctors have been called heroic, especially in hot spots such as Italy and New York City.
And if indeed “everything hangs on one’s thinking,” as he and his philosophical heirs frequently remind us, then this pandemic is just as much an opportunity as it is a curse.