I watched a newscaster ask a journalist, “aren’t we at the point where we need to understand tbe psychology of it”? She was referring to the Covid pandemic. I just wanted to throw my paper in hand at the television but what good would that have done? Let me answer her question. Of course!
This pandemic, any illness, is impacted by the “psychological” aspects of it. In public health we talk about the three As: Availability, Accessibility, and acceptability. Psychology impacts all three As, but in particular “acceptability”. Maybe we would be further along regarding many public health initiatives if we remembered people bring their thoughts, fears, childhood background and norms to any situation and decision. We have to meet people where they are at and address the psychology of it all head on.
There. That’s all I had to say today.
Categories: Culture, current events, Health, identity, Leadership, mental health, Psychology, society
psychologistmimi 
i’ve Taken A Rather
Large Photo of
The Human
Condition For
61 Years, 2 Months,
And 18 Days; Particularly
Documenting
It in Pain Staking
Detail The Last
8 Years What
i Find is
Humans
Are Play Dough
There Are No
Limits
To The
Dreams
Or Nightmares
We Will Create
Next As Long As
We Hold Hands
In Church And State…
The Church
Is The
Crazy
8 Card
And No
Matter What
Form It Comes
In There Is No
Escaping
It; Ironically
i Find Every
Psychology
Professional
Avoiding it
Like The Plague
The Obvious
8000 Pound
Insane
Gorilla
Folks
Ignore
Like “Big
Foot” Doesn’t Exist…
When The Problem
Is Off Limits
We FAiL
Simple As This…
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And all three vary tremendously according to which social bubble you inhabit.
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I agree!
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