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Re:One in five Covid-19 patients develop mental illness with... by mfer on Tuesday November 10, 2020 @10:37AM (#25047116)
It would also be interesting to see what it's like in countries with different news coverage styles. Fear is a tactic used in the US to keep eyes glued to new media.
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Re:One in five Covid-19 patients develop mental illness with... by capableweb on Tuesday November 10, 2020 @10:55AM (#25047343)
In what countries doesn't the media thrive off fear and sensation?
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Re:One in five Covid-19 patients develop mental illness with... by dboreham on Tuesday November 10, 2020 @11:17AM (#25047631)
All other countries seem to do this less than the USA. Degree varies of course.
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Re:One in five Covid-19 patients develop mental illness with... by soulofmischief on Tuesday November 10, 2020 @12:50PM (#25048758)
Even Syria, Turkey, Qatar, Nigeria?
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Re:One in five Covid-19 patients develop mental illness with... by gentleman11 on Tuesday November 10, 2020 @12:09PM (#25048235)
Even Russia, China, and North Korea?
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Re:One in five Covid-19 patients develop mental illness with... by mistermann on Tuesday November 10, 2020 @10:59AM (#25047394)
>> To be clear, this does not demonstrate that Covid infection causes mental illness from a neurological perspective.

> It would also be interesting to see what it's like in countries with different news coverage styles. Fear is a tactic used in the US to keep eyes glued to new media.

I think that's likely a non-significant part of it. As the saying goes, "Perception is reality" (which is demonstrated in phenomena like the placebo effect, or widespread beliefs in theories like QAnon or RussiaGate) - if so, it shouldn't be terribly surprising that a person who subjects their mind to large quantities of subjective "Coronavirus!!!!!!!" "journalism" would have a genuinely different reaction than that of someone who only exposed their mind to objective statistics.

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