The impact of COVID‐19 shelter‐in‐place policy responses on excess mortality

Agrawal, Virat; Cantor, Jonathan; Sood, Neeraj; Whaley, Christopher

doi:10.1002/hec.4737

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“…China chose to implement a lockdown policy, which is one of the most important NPI measures to avoid a massive spread of COVID-19, including limiting unnecessary social contact and travel, stay at home orders, closing school, work from home, learning online courses, and so on. Some research points to poor outcomes caused by the lockdown policy, such as increased unemployment and domestic violence [2]. A similar problem concerning married females during the lockdowns has been reported in a research paper; the work performance of married females became poorer than male colleagues when comparing publications by academic workers [3].…”

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The COVID-19 Lockdown and Mental Wellbeing of Females in China

Xia

Wei

Huang

2022

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Most studies consider that COVID-19 lockdowns lead to mental health problems for females, while the effect of role change on female mental health has been overlooked. This study aimed to explore multiple facets of the risk of mental distress in a sample of Chinese married females aged 21–50 during the COVID-19 lockdowns. A cross-sectional study was carried out with 613 valid responses from married females in the Guangdong province. Our primary tool was a questionnaire using a Kessler-10 scale to detect the probability of mental distress based on the level of nervousness, tiredness, restlessness, and depression. Eighty-eight point three percent of married females possessed a high risk of psychological distress because they frequently felt tired out, hopeless, and restless. The evidence suggests that the lockdown has caused a conflict in the female role to maintain a balance between family and career. Increasing family care responsibilities are positively associated with nervousness, tiredness, and mental disorder. The heterogeneity of the social role in mental wellbeing is explored. Married females whose income was worse off during the lockdown are negatively associated with mental wellbeing. Married females who are employed are found to be less mentally healthy than the self-employed.

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The COVID-19 Lockdown and Mental Wellbeing of Females in China

Xia

Wei

Huang

2022

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Mass Paranoia and Hysteria: Turning Society Against Itself

Hughes

2024

“Covid-19,” Psychological Operations, and the War for Technocracy

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In keeping with totalitarianism, Covid-era psychological warfare worked to turn people against one another, to prevent them from uniting against their oppressors. Mass paranoia was inculcated through the lie that “anyone can spread it.” Guilt was weaponised to blame and shame those not following the “rules” and “protecting others.” Mask mandates segregated society. Dissenters were scapegoated. A new form of hate speech was introduced: “anti-maskers,” “anti-vaxxers,” etc. Members of the public were encouraged to police one another. The public was primed for violence against dissenters misleadingly framed as “fringe.” The “pandemic of the unvaccinated” myth styled the outgroup as vectors of disease, like Jews in Nazi propaganda. The “vaccinated” were turned on the “unvaccinated” through mechanisms of blame, medicalised apartheid, incitement of hatred by the media, and lies that hospitals were filling up with “unvaccinated” patients. Society is now deeply divided between those who can see through psychological operations and those who cannot.

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