Sunday 11 October 2020
Long, Long Covid 19? by Les May
SCOTLAND’s Sunday Post newspaper reports that Health Boards in Scotland have placed on-line advertisements in an attempt to recruit staff to act as contact tracers during the present pandemic. The contracts being offered are of eighteen months duration.
This suggests that there is a growing recognition that Covid 19 is going to be with us until at least 2022 and possibly far longer.
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I recently spoke to a member of the Community Psychiatric Team from Tameside Hospital. She told me that there had ben a 90% increase in referrals to them for people suffering from psychiatric disorders since the lockdown in March. She said people were presenting with anxiety and depression issues. Could the Covid-19 epidemic be leading to a mental health crises in in Britain - Banksy's dismal land - and an outbreak of lunacy?
If this is true then is it the inevitable outcome of the speculation presented as fact that the ‘lockdown’ would result in ‘mental health issues’, ‘domestic violence’ etc? Have these speculations become a self fulfilling prophecy by being repeated often enough? Or is it simply that someone has forgotten that correlation does not imply causation?
This virus is not going to go away anytime soon. It may be with us for a very long time, perhaps forever. So we are just going to have to learn to live with it, whether we like it or not. If we adjust our expectations we will be able to do that. If we don’t we’ll end up learning to die with it.
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