Stress is incredibly deadly. I’m not sharing my opinion on ending or extending quarantine, but speaking strictly on the topic of stress, it is very deadly. It leads to obesity, low quality of life, heart disease, resulting in premature death and a crap ton of other medical conditions.
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I’m saying that you can’t save everyone from everything. You do what you can, but life must go on. Keeping in mind you or someone you know could end up sick.
The government has to make the hard decision about when to return to regular life, knowing that will put more people at risk.
I’m glad it isn’t my decision.
IMHO 3 years is severely excessive.
I don’t get how stress can cause obesity?
You mean eating more? Some people eat less when stressed…
Stress hormone is cortisol, can it be lowered with meds to prevent stress?
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I believe and hope there will be a vaccine
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I was just talking about racoons today.
If someone could invent a spray for your garbage bags to deter racoons, they’d probably make a fortune!
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As for the thread topic I’m very wishy washy. I don’t like the idea of reopening because people are bored. I feel that it is irresponsible to open the government up and just let thousands more people die, but I also think that it is irresponsible to not consider the effects of a collapsed economy. Without going into too much politics, the government cannot keep affording multi-trillion dollar stimulus bills.
With all that being said, what do you do? Especially considering getting unemployment during this time is an absolute joke and that small business loan barely helped. I’ve seen a lot of people on facebook making fun of and calling small business owners who want to reopen the economy selfish, but I don’t think that is fair. It is easy for me to say “lets keep quarantine going,” but I’m not going to lose everything from the economy staying in a standstill.
I also don’t think its fair to those at high risk of the disease to be put in greater risk by opening everything. I guess it’ll be a matter of weighing the negatives and each, and see which one has the greater consequence. I have doomsday anxiety though, always thinking of the worst possible outcome, and either option is bleak in my mind.
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Stress is very manageable with exercise, hobbies, and other stress reducing activities. There may be a stress reducing medication, but I think anti-anxiety meds are the closest too it. Fortunately stress doesn’t require meds, it requires clean and healthy living. 
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Florida is gradually reopening. There are 4 phases (we’re in phase 1 currently), with about two weeks between each stage (contingent on the spread of the virus). This plan makes sense to me.
I think you open every business up that doesn’t require any type of crowding issue…still maintaining physical distancing as best you can.
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Yeah the restrictions are a little crazy.
Like this year alone 3.25 million people have died from hunger.
But a couple hundred thousand deaths from a virus in the developed world and the countries get shut right down.
This is probably a test run for countries governments to see what’s necessary to do during a big virus outbreak. Maybe the lockdown helps maybe it doesn’t only time will tell as things reopen.
Even the Covid thread on this forum has died down. People are sick of talking about it.
The really nice weather is about to hit, and people will congregate outdoors more. It’s just human nature. You can only box us in for so long.
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I’ve been out mountain biking throughout just doing the ole 6ft distance between biking buddies. The mountain bike community has been out and about pretty much the whole time but the bikes make it easy to keep distance in the woods
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I think the golf ranges and courses are about to open here in my city in Canada…if they haven’t already.
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All I know is there’s a whole new world that opened up to me - I can have any food I want delivered. So shutdown or no shutdown, I’m set as far as going out goes. Any food I want delivered?! Yes, please, sign me up! I’m good with this lasting another decade if need be (ok, not really, but almost).
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Idk about that. It might help or it might even make things worse. Cortisol has other important functions too in the body. So those will be affected.Plus there may be other messengers that are affected by stress in the body, not just cortisol. Its a good question.
Also, Idk if this is correct but I also wonder if you reduce one inflammation inducing messenger in the body by artificial means, maybe a different inflammation inducing messenger is therefore increased to compensate anyways.
I’d have to look that up to see if that happens. I wouldn’t be surprised if it did. But maybe not.
Nice article, they say there is 3 types of stress, psychological, environmental and physiological.
Environmental is like pollution I guess.
“Stress is a state of threatened homeostasis provoked by a psychological, environmental, or physiological stressor.”
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