The NEWS media outlets have been telling people about Post COVID, otherwise known as Long COVID, and for some the name seems to be a bit confusing. This article intends to provide some information and commentary on Post COVID.
Post COVID has little to no relationship to the actual virus, the side effects from the virus or any side-effects from the vaccines as some of those topics have been both widely and not so widely addressed. Post COVID is all about the mental state of those who were instructed or ordered to wear masks and lock themselves off and on for two plus years by all levels of Government. These instructions and orders, including threat of fine or imprisonment, or a combination of both were levied across the board at all of the citizens.
There is another group of citizens who by Government mandate live in conditions similar to what the Governments did to the citizens at large and those are the inmates in prison. The similarities in this comparison are strikingly similar and as such it should come as no-one's surprise that the mental outcomes would also be strikingly similar. In the table below there is a side by side comparison between the incarcerated and those who have Post COVID symptoms.
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Post COVID (Long COVID) |
Inmate |
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1) Fatigue 2) Memory problems 3) Sleep disturbances 4) Shortness of breath 5) Anxiety and depression 6) General pain and discomfort 7) Difficulty thinking or concentrating 8) Post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) |
A) Persistent sad, numb or empty mood B) Loss of interest or pleasure in activities C) Increased or decreased appetite D) Insomnia or hypersomnia E) Psychomotor agitation or retardation F) Feelings of worthlessness or excessive guilt G) Diminished ability to concentrate or think H) Ever attempted suicide I) Persistent anger or irritability J) Increased/decreased interest in sexual activities |
One of the columns has been lettered and the other numbered for easy cross referencing purposes. Before moving forward, there are some big words that the general population may not understand. Here are the words that this feels will help the reader to know:
Psychomotor - relating to the origination of movement in conscious mental activity
"her birth and psychomotor development up to five years of age were normal"
Hypersomnia - the inability to stay awake and alert during the day despite having more than an adequate amount of nighttime sleep.
PTSD - Symptoms may include flashbacks, nightmares and severe anxiety, as well as uncontrollable thoughts about the event.
In looking at the table one can see that some of the symptoms populate both side of the table. As an example, once the fancy words are stripped away, there is the ability to reference both columns with a number-letter combination. For example; 1|D aligns Fatigue and Hypersomnia are basically both describing the same condition of always being tired regardless of how well a person sleeps at night. Of course there will standalone items on each side of the table and some of those will be opined upon as it is unfortunate that the Canadian Government decided to include some PTSD symptoms in the overall list.
1|D) Has already been explained and so on this combination no further commentary is required.
2|7) Line item #7 covers a broad swath of topics on both lists. There is seemingly a lack of diversity on the Post COVID side of things, although inclusion seems to be running rampant as some of the line items can be collapsed into a single yet more complicated topic.
3) This line item is one of the standalone items due to the ambiguity of the words used. The questions that need to be asked here are is it the sleep that is disturbed or is the sleep that is doing the disturbing?
4) This line item is another standalone item because there is no cause given. Shortness of breath can easily be attributed to many reasons such as; lack of exercise, panic attacks, increased smoking due to stress, etc...
5) This line item covers almost all of the Inmate line items, though A, B, C, I and J are easily associated.
6) Once again there is an overly vague description, much like line item #4, that has been put in as a place holder.
7|G+E) the numbered line item is the result of the two lettered line items, while G is almost identical to 7 the lettered item E does put a little more meat on the bone because Psychomotor skills require both cognitive ability and memory.
8) Shell Shock, the great great grandfather of PTSD from the Great War, was a simple term that adequately described the conditions that those solders lived and died under. Battle fatigue was the great grandfather of PTSD circa WWII, once again describes the situation under which the solders existed. A few generations later and when the gestation period was complete PTSD was born. PTSD has become the umbrella term for people who can't seem to deal with an uncomfortable situation.
The Commentary:
At first blush, the concept of Long COVID, things look pretty good in that the Government is showing care and concern. The problems start to surface when a comparison is made to the prison system and the similarities rise to the surface. The Governments have admitted that the general population was effectively incarcerated without any due process and a total disregard for mental health.
At this point, this author is going to borrow a tactic from the political Left, by claiming gas-lighting based on the acts and words of Governments in that Government only wants wet robots and not any actual thinking people. There seems to be a concerted effort to lower the intellectual bar so far that people are expected to do just as they are told.
Considering the ambiguity of many of the Long COVID 'symptoms' the net has been cast both wide and deep to drag people into victim status. Much like COVID-19, the general population is being put on its back foot as confident people are much harder to control. Once the nanny-state gets its foot in the door of more and more households and those households, in the pursuit of ever more support, will vote for the 'helping hand' party thus cementing the position of power for a few more years.
Another vote for the helping hand party is gained from those who are placed in the service of the nanny-state. These civil-servants as they are referred to, will always vote for the nanny-state, as it has become their support structure in a way that is very similar to the people on welfare, with the only difference being that the civil servants have to provide the appearance of doing some actual work.
There has also been an across the board rising call for censorship. This can be seen in what has been referred to as 'cancel culture' at the level of the citizenry and as Bill C-11 in Canada at the Federal Government level, which allows the CRTC to become the curator of Canadian content on the global public Internet on the behalf of the Canadian Government.
So now, both the carrot and the stick have been identified. The carrot is the re-allocation of other peoples' money seeing as the Government has no cash of its own and the stick is censorship. This author, in a fit of sarcasm, finds it entertaining that through coercion and censorship those who claim to be progressive are halting progress through coercion and censorship. When everyone has settled for a lack of labour existence they will become sedate and with censorship no-one will feel any validity due to the enforcement that all men ARE an island. In short both the carrot and the stick promote isolationism.
Sources:
Inmate - https://bjs.ojp.gov/content/pub/pdf/mhppji.pdf (page-2)
PTSD - https://youtu.be/hSp8IyaKCs0
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