Four years from the first British Lockdown, and almost a year since the World Health Organization explained an end to the emergency situation for Covid-19, many people still know the effects of pandemin.
A survey of YouGov Last week found that 44% of the British believe that pandemic is “still ongoing”. Some remain traumatized by the covid crisis, while others are nostalgic for aspects of it – but what unites them is that they have not yet come across the experience.
Lockdown was a “lovely 18-month vacation”, Giles Coren said in The times. We “have to bunk school, chase down with our families, read books, learn language, cook, avoid foreign travel, avoid most social interaction” and go to “nice long walks in the park”.
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Colleague Times Columnist Harriet Walker also admitted a touch of “Lockdown Nostalgia” and wrote that “for many people, the implemented planlessness in Lockdown was actually quite nice”.
They are not alone. “Gen Z TikTok users from the United States and the United Kingdom have reminded how much they lack this period of their lives,” said Daily mail last year. Some described the quarantine period as “their” best year ever “and a” well deserved break “.
A tictoker said, “How we took quarantine for granted makes me want to cry. There is literally nothing I miss more than the beginning of 2020.”
But many others remember it less fond. A study It published last year in the Netherlands found that half of the PTSD cases dealt with were related to covid experiences.
“Are we all traumatized by the pandemic?” asked Claudia Canavan in Women’s health. Emma Svanberg, a psychologist who specializes in trauma, said: “I don’t think we are moving on from the pandemic. I think we are stuck.” Pandemin was a “collective trauma, which continues to have ripples”, Svanberg told the newspaper.
Covid “delivered a body of body” to the nation, said The custodianAnd a “from which experts say recovery will not be light or automatic”. Infants and children “seem to have been affected by development methods due to long periods of isolation”, while “older people, who needed to protect most from Covid, were also uniquely vulnerable to the effects of physical inactivity”.
A “way of thinking that remains so long after covid” means “the fear must now be that it is permanent”, wrote Annabel Denham in Telegraph. Throughout Lockdown, we told the children that “it was good – even desirable – not to go to school”, but absence remains “stubborn high”. There has also been a “powerful”, especially among younger people, in mental illness.
A couple from West Sussex who still protect four years from the first Covid locking said they feel they have been “left”. Gayle and Leslie Howard still carry masks as they leave the house. “It is over a million people who are still hit by screens after the pandemic, but we suffer,” Gayle, who had a kidney transplant 2018, told the BBC.
The pandemic could also have had an intellectual impact. A new study suggested that “even people who completely recovered from what felt like a mild dose of covid” may have suffered a cognitive deficit equal to three IQ points, compared to someone who was never infected, Pilita Clark wrote in Economic times.
While she emphasized that the study had “limitations”, she said that in the United States, this would mean that an additional 2.8 million adults would remain with an IQ under 70, a threshold that suggests a level of intellectual disability that may require “significant community support “.
What now?
The next pandemic is just “around the corner,” said Dr Nathalie MacDermott, clinical lecturer in infectious diseases at King’s College London, Sky News. The world is “abundant for outbursts”.
We “want to think that we can just go back to normal and I understand it completely,” she said. “But the next pandemic is around the corner – it can be two years, it can be 20 years, it can be longer.”
As of April 1, people who are concerned about or susceptible to the coronary virus will be able to get a covid vaccine at boots for £ 99. This is the first time a Vaccine against Covid-19 has been available outside the NHS since the mass vaccination program was launched in December 2020.
