When I wear the COVID Many of us took our lives as a joke, and I recognize myself among them. This could not reach us and it was an issue like bird flu, which would ultimately come to nothing. Suddenly the first case in Barcelona, some in Madrid, and here we do begin to suspect that it would be closer than we thought. I remember thinking that, if someone had been here for more than 30 days, and traveled every day by subway, due to a simple contagion rule, there had to be more than 300 people, and so it was, they appeared little by little and more and more, until make us see that this was no joke. The isolation, which we thought would last a few days, the distances and the cleanliness. And with all this came fear.
Fear as a form of control
There is nothing better to control a large mass of people than fear, and this is something studied and known throughout history. Here then fear began to be created, be careful with other people, with touching something, with cleanliness, and in the end creating the feeling that viruses can even be on the dirty floor of the street, something that we now know is not true. , but we still leave our shoes at the door. What initially had to be washing hands and maintaining social distance, and seeing that people did not comply, some thought it was better to create more fear. You have to wear a mask, gloves, leave your shoes on, keep your distance, don’t cough near anyone, etc. And this has turned into panic.
The problem with this mechanism is that it is not something that can be turned on and off. When it is activated it starts to work by itself and is like a beast that feeds itself. It’s getting older, and the paranoia is increasing exponentially.
Now people are in panic, and in this state anything is accepted. We accept limitations on movements or business openings without even discussing whether when the time comes it makes sense to open a church, where the faithful are inside, but not a bar, where the faithful also enter inside. People accept cuts to their privacy and freedom in exchange for false security, and this is dangerous, very dangerous, since it can be misused by governments.
And now that
Now we have a new problem.
Now it’s time de-escalation, while you have generated a feeling of panic, while you have limited freedoms so much that people ask before doing anything, like little children. People ask you if they can come from the next town to the psychologist, and of course they can, because they have always been able to because they are medical visits.
Now people are afraid to go out, beyond two blocks, they are afraid to sit in the doctor’s office or come across a swarm of viruses at the door.
Now we have a society with so much fear of everything that is immobile, that it is going to take a lot to tear it out of that corner where it is hidden and afraid. And the worst, with serious problems of anxiety and depression that public health will not be able to address. Because yes we will have UCIS, but that does not help the fears, and public medicine tends to medicate at the cost of pills, in the country that is the world’s largest consumer of antidepressants and anxiolytics.
