Pandemic of Panic Is Worse than COVID-19
While the threat of the COVID-19 needs to be taken with great concern, it is as important to understand the useless and counterproductive effects of panicking. Whether you take the vaccine or not, prevention is the best approach to any viral challenge. Panic is extreme fear response triggering stress hormones that suppress immune function increasing susceptibility to any pathogen, including viruses. But as we are well-aware, fear mongering is profitable for some of the news media and pharmaceutical companies. Some based on predatory action and others on ignorance of the debilitating effect panic has on the immune system.
Attribution and the Immune System
There’s extensive professional literature on the placebo (positive) and nocebo (negative) effects on illnesses, based on where we place the cause of what is happens to our bodies. There’s a possibility that COVID-19 was already in the US and people not knowing it existed, treated the symptoms (which are similar to other upper respiratory viruses) as a cold or the flu. Now, because we know COVID-19 is a different virus than the common flu, people are being tested with a stronger nocebo attribution. Additionally, people with compromised immune systems from other underlying illnesses, make the flu as well as the COVID-19 more lethal. When the HIV virus that causes AIDS was discovered in 1983, it was…
