Haven't read it but did they consider that many old people haven't been getting the healthcare they need, so many could have undiagnosed disorders that they discover after getting healthcare?
What an indictment of our shitty healthcare system if the thing standing between so many people and getting mental health diagnosis and treatment is just going to the doctor like one time.
I'll never understand why medicare doesn't fully cover mental health amongst other things
Jesus christ. I mean I know how hard it was for me to start to ask for help with my shit, I can't imagine finally getting it out there and being told to shut the fuck up because of capitalism.
The study also found that people with a pre-existing mental illness were 65% more likely to be diagnosed with COVID-19 than those without.
This part is cooking my noodle.
So does that mean people with mental illnesses were more likely to get a positive result or that they were already in more frequent contact with healthcare professionals and therefore more likely to get tested?
One is kinda alarming and the other seems pretty logical.
Mental health in this political environment can track with poorer physical health and poverty.
I imagine that symptom checks before important appointments are a strong encouragement to get tested
Speaking from personal experience: the first week was fucking awful, because of the fever. After about seven days the fever subsided, but I started feeling REALLY weird, probably a combination of covid brain and dexamethasone. I can definitely see that triggering some kind of preexisting tendency towards mental illness. Reality was really crumbling after 10-14 days of getting my first symptoms. My body felt weird, not only in a "I'm feeling weak and tired" sort of way, but also in a strange way, like my proprioception wasn't working right. Here's me ten days ago: https://hexbear.net/post/45316/comment/406054
I am, thanks! When I'm exercising, I notice that I'm still much weaker than I was before, but it's hard to tell if that's from covid itself, or if it's a result of spending two weeks essentially bedridden.
Bummer the steroids didn't make you superhuman. Hope you can get back to where you were, but just working on yourself and seeing progress can be a really big confidence boost.
They aren't anabolic steroids, they are catabolic steroids. They actually make you weaker.
Who says they didn't? I was volcel before and two weeks of isolation without energy for disgusting onanism have turned me into an Antifa supersoldier.
States are already going over 100% hospital capacity and no one's doing anything, complete disaster. I guessing the USA will break 150 000 cases a day today, complete disaster
Pandemics have collapsed empires before.
The hospital system is just starting to see the surge and it's already strained to the breaking point, probably past it in North Dakota (asymptomatic nurses coming back to work).
Miracle vaccine has been found, the results of the vaccine trails claim 90% efficiency in preventing covid infection (the FDA and Fauci were looking to approve anything with over 50% efficiency, just to give you an idea). The problem is the manufacturing and distribution of the vaccine, as well as once that's done getting antivaxx Q 12chan to take it. Don't expect to be able to get a vaccine until mid 2021 at the earliest
Yeah the general public isn't getting the vaccine anytime soon, so US winter will still be a horror show
This is me going full doomer brain but the US was already hitting over 100 000 cases a day during the election. With that level of base infection, the elections and post celebration/chud rage could act as a massive super-spreader event across the whole country. Yeah folks, not good
Love to be a walking 180lb virus factory just looking for a blueprint to fuck my whole shit up.
Yeah. Maybe Covid will give me one that cancels something else out
You're not wrong, the study discusses the stress of being ill as being a trigger, not necessarily that the virus itself is modifying the brain. Other articles I read about this included lower but still elevated risk of mental illness after the flu or breaking a bone. Being sick or injured is stressful, and that can cause problems.
Is this just correlation though? I can imagine that a bunch of poor people who never go to the doctor had to for COVID and then maybe that led to them being more likely to be diagnosed for their already existing conditions.
Yeah I'd 100% end up as a correlation in this study from my unmedicated panic disorder
Also did they control for mental illness from any disease? I mean Covid is probably more traumatic than say serious Pneumonia, but that probably still has a huge mental illness rate.
If we set our minds to it we can accomplish anything. Let's go for 70%
We’re all mad here. I’m mad. You’re mad. You must be, or you wouldn’t have come here.
I suspect it more these people already had mental illnesses but COVID exasperated it and getting COVID is the first time in a while they’ve been surrounded by medical personnel so they were more likely to actually be diagnosed
I meant a CIA Bioweapon. Doesn’t it seem odd that as soon as Biden is declared the winner by the MSM, they can cure covid?
There have been a variety of vaccines in development this whole time, there's been positive and negative news about them for months. They've been public about their development and testing schedules. There's no conspiracy here, just incompetence in managing it.
There is a conspiracy here
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bIeoSqpbj9Y
https://storage.googleapis.com/stateless-newearthnation-org/university/2020/06/24a16270-newearth.university-white-paper-on-covid-19-global-situation.pdf
They’re doing this shit to destroy their own economy, kill off people they don’t like, force rent hikes, increase government power, wipe small businesses out of existence, cover up the 5G surveillance network, and ultimately bring an end to the working class
Uh, considering I’m probably on a kill list right now, yeah I’m pretty far from being okay
You just have not been paying attention at all to reality and are connecting superficial dots that have nothing to do with each other
I have been paying attention. Have you noticed how Biden is always saying “Dark Winter?”
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Dark_Winter
He has plans
https://theconsciousresistance.com/the-darkest-winter-2020/
You realize other countries beside the United States exist, and that they are doing a much better job containing the pandemic? You honestly sound like a troll.
I’m just shooting from the hip. My source is Twitter, so I could be pretty wrong about this
