Why the Pandemic Is Messing with Your Sense of Time
One day, more than a month into the pandemic, I skimmed my Twitter feed early in the day and was totally confused. Why were people posting tweets from April 22? I checked Twitter again at night. Same thing happened. People were still sharing tweets from April 22. I was baffled.
It took a few more hours until I realized why: It was April 22.
I don’t know what day, exactly, I thought it was, only that I was sure it was a whole lot later than April. Maybe months later.
Under quarantine, time gets bent out of shape, like Salvador Dali’s clocks. For me, time was speeding up and stretching into the future. Social media...
Source: World of Psychology - May 26, 2020 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Bella DePaulo, Ph.D. Tags: Memory and Perception Mental Health and Wellness coronavirus COVID-19 Perception Of Time temporal disintegration Source Type: blogs
The COVID-19 Pandemic Makes California ’s Housing Crisis Even More Urgent
Michael D. Tanner andDavid HerveyFor Californians who have long opposed building more housing in their communities, COVID-19 has provided a new and seemingly convincing argument: density is dangerous. Some have evensuggested that the pandemic vindicates proponents of “single‐family sprawl” or justifies a moratorium on new housing legislation, which are views these observers would likely hold regardless of the current crisis.At first glance, the argument against density seems correct, but evidence suggests there are other factors at play.A virus that transmits person to person ismuch more likely...
Source: Cato-at-liberty - May 20, 2020 Category: American Health Authors: Michael D. Tanner, David Hervey Source Type: blogs
It Would Be Great to “Make China Pay” for COVID-19, But the Price Could Be High
Doug BandowMany of us hoped that economic liberalization in China would encourage political reform. The country did change dramatically: Maoism was tossed into history ’s trash bin, while personal autonomy and economic opportunity greatly expanded.Unfortunately, with Tiananmen Square the Chinese Communist Party decisively chose repression. Nevertheless, even though the regime remained authoritarian, academics, independent journalists, and others could debate ideas as long as they avoided directly challenging the CCP. The regime ’s control remained somewhat loose, giving hope of long‐term improvement.Everything cha...
Source: Cato-at-liberty - May 8, 2020 Category: American Health Authors: Doug Bandow Source Type: blogs
Two Supertypes of Coronavirus: “East Asian” and “European”
Andrei Illarionov andNatalya PivovarovaThe Los Alamos National Laboratory has posteda new study, as reported this weekby theWashington Post andtheLos Angeles Times, that finds that the strain of the novel coronavirus that emerged in Europe and has spread to much of the world is different than the strain of the virus at its origin in China. Those findingsare consistent with our research which we posted (in Russian) on April 15, 2020. Although we are not epidemiologists, we are posting our slightly updated analysis below in English in the interest of sharing what may be significant findings with a wider audience. We welcome ...
Source: Cato-at-liberty - May 8, 2020 Category: American Health Authors: Andrei Illarionov, Natalya Pivovarova Source Type: blogs
People Who Have Lost Their Religion Show “Residues” Of Religious Past In Their Thoughts And Behaviours, Study Claims
By Emma Young
What happens to people when they lose their religion? Do they start to think and act just like people who have never believed — or do they keep some psychological and behavioural traces of their past?
Given the number of people worldwide who report no current religious affiliation (more than 1 billion) and predictions that this will expand into the future, it’s important to explore just how homogenous, or otherwise, this group is, argue the researchers behind a new paper, published in the Journal of Personality and Social Psychology: Personality Processes and Individual Differences.
Daryl R. Van Tong...
Source: BPS RESEARCH DIGEST - May 7, 2020 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: BPS Research Digest Tags: Religion Social Source Type: blogs
Can The Tablighi Jamaat ’s Conference be India’s Own Epidemiological Diamond Princess?
By SOMALARAM VENKATESH, MD
“It has always been science versus fundamentalism, not science versus religion.” Abhijit Naskar, Biopsy of Religions: Neuroanalysis Towards Universal Tolerance
On February 3, 2020, the luxury cruise ship Diamond Princess docked on Japanese shores and was promptly quarantined with 3711 people on board, because a passenger who had disembarked at Hong Kong two days earlier had tested positive for SARS-Cov-2, or also known as COVID-19. Passengers & crew members were either repatriated or hospitalized in Japan over the next 4 weeks. In total,, more than 700 of them were ...
Source: The Health Care Blog - April 30, 2020 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Christina Liu Tags: COVID-19 Health Policy Diamond Princess India Somalaram Venkatesh Tablighi Jamat Source Type: blogs
China Concerns Are No Reason to Maintain the Jones Act Status Quo
Colin GrabowAs scrutiny of theJones Act intensifies, defenders of the 100 ‐year‐old law have come up with ever more imaginative justifications for keeping it in place. One argument currently en vogue is casting the Jones Act as a bulwark against Chinese expansionism. Such framing is not difficult to understand given the poisoned state of U.S.-China relations.But is it actually true? Would China take over or dominate domestic shipping in the Jones Act ’s absence? There is considerable reason for skepticism.It ’s perhaps first worth noting that China, while a major shipping player, hardly dominates th...
Source: Cato-at-liberty - April 22, 2020 Category: American Health Authors: Colin Grabow Source Type: blogs
China Cynically Exploits the Coronavirus Pandemic
Ted Galen CarpenterBeijing is trying to exploit the coronavirus pandemic at every opportunity. Although that strategy may advance some short ‐term objectives for Xi Jinping’s government, it is a myopic approach that is almost certain to backfire. Indeed, it is already breeding extensive resentment in the United States and around the world.As I discuss in a new article inThe Hill, Beijing launched a propaganda offensive to shift blame for the spread of the coronavirus onto the United States.Most evidence indicates that the virus originated in a market in the city of Wuhan, but there are recen...
Source: Cato-at-liberty - April 20, 2020 Category: American Health Authors: Ted Galen Carpenter Source Type: blogs
Research Provides No Basis for Pandemic Travel Bans
CONCLUSIONThe pre ‐COVID‐19 research is unanimous that governments cannot expect to rely on travel restrictions to prevent the spread of pandemics similar to influenza. Travel restrictions do not prevent the spread of disease and may only delay it for a few days or weeks if implemented prior to the interna tional transmission of the disease. The Trump administration’s travel restrictions waited until after the virus had already entered the United States, and they exempted many travelers from China, not to mention the rest of the world.[30]The research shows that the Trump administration should have known that ...
Source: Cato-at-liberty - April 15, 2020 Category: American Health Authors: David J. Bier Source Type: blogs
The COVID Pandemic: WHO Dunnit?
By ANISH KOKA, MD
COVID is here. A little strand of RNA that
used to live in bats has a new host. And
that strand is clearly not the flu. New
York is overrun, with more than half of the nation’s new cases per day, and
refrigerated 18-wheelers parked outside hospitals serve as makeshift
morgues. Detroit, New Orleans, Miami,
and Philadelphia await an inevitable surge of their own with bated breath. America’s health care workers are scrambling
to hold the line against a deluge of sick patients arriving hourly at a rate
that’s hard to fathom.
I pause here to attest to the heroic r...
Source: The Health Care Blog - April 11, 2020 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Zoya Khan Tags: COVID-19 Health Policy Anish Koka coronavirus Pandemic Sars-CoV-2 WHO World Health Organization Source Type: blogs
Do Great Leaders Create Peace and Prosperity?
David BoazWith the latest news about Hungarian prime minister Viktor Orban ’s drive for autocratic power, I was just looking up this quote from Hayek ’sThe Road to Serfdom–…dissatisfaction with the slow and cumbersome course of democratic procedure which makes action for action’s sake the goal. It is then the man or the party who seems strong and resolute enough “to get things done” who exercises the greatest appeal. “Strong” in this sense means not merely a numerical majority – it is the ineffectiveness of parliamentary majorities with which people are dissatisfied. What they will seek is som...
Source: Cato-at-liberty - April 3, 2020 Category: American Health Authors: David Boaz Source Type: blogs
COVID-19 Update: A Message From Concerned Physicians
This article originally appeared on the HJLuks site here.
The post COVID-19 Update: A Message From Concerned Physicians appeared first on The Health Care Blog. (Source: The Health Care Blog)
Source: The Health Care Blog - March 19, 2020 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Christina Liu Tags: COVID-19 Health Policy Physicians Bryan Vartabedian Carrie Diulus coronavirus Eric Levi Ethan Weiss Howard Luks Joel Topf Nancy Yen Shipley Pandemic Source Type: blogs
Why Peak Viral Load makes temperature screening alone insufficient for COVID-19
By TONY ESTRELLA
And how South Korea and Taiwan’s approach to diagnosis and tracking is leading to positive results
By now, the sight of people wearing surgical masks, flinching at the sights and sounds of someone coughing or sneezing, governments restricting large gatherings, and sports leagues suspending or cancelling matches is familiar across the world.
Even though this newest coronavirus we now call COVID-19 is not the deadliest disease as measured by daily deaths, the concern over the outbreak is forcing urgent actions.
Daily deaths from COVID-19 compared to other diseases. Source: informationisbeautifu...
Source: The Health Care Blog - March 16, 2020 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Christina Liu Tags: COVID-19 Health Policy Source Type: blogs
Why Are People Hoarding Toilet Paper?
On Facebook a few days ago, a friend posted that there was no toilet paper anywhere in the town where I live. She listed the big box stores she had visited.
I wasn’t worried. My nearest supermarket always has plenty. I put toilet paper on my grocery list and went there the next day. The entire aisle devoted to toilet paper was completely empty. At the checkout line, a sign was posted warning that customers would be limited to only a certain number of particular products.
It was a lot worse elsewhere. In a store in Sydney, a security guard was hired to patrol the toilet paper aisle. Overkill? Well, in Hong Kong, thiev...
Source: World of Psychology - March 15, 2020 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Bella DePaulo, Ph.D. Tags: Habits Health-related Minding the Media coronavirus COVID-19 hoarding Toilet Paper Source Type: blogs
Podcast: Stealing Cinderella (A True Story)
Would you risk everything for love? Even your life? In today’s podcast, Gabe interviews Mark Diehl, author of Stealing Cinderella: How I Became an International Fugitive for Love. Mark’s book is his true-life story of growing up with an emotionally unstable mother, his resulting rebellious streak and drug use, and the wild ride of his forbidden love affair with a South Korean woman. The story details the couple’s narrow escape from her rich, abusive family in a journey where they almost lost their lives.
Tune in for a true-life fairy tale that’s stranger than fiction.
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Source: World of Psychology - March 12, 2020 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: The Psych Central Podcast Tags: General Interview Motivation and Inspiration Podcast Relationships The Psych Central Show Trauma Source Type: blogs
