The placebo effect and Covid-19. | |
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Anonymous Coward User ID: 77936235 United States 08/19/2020 04:56 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | The negative effect is called the nocebo effect. That's why I'm against commercials in pictures showing the dangers of smoking. I think witches understand these effects maybe better than anyone, and I believe it telling someone something like your going to die, or they're definitely going to get sick if they do XYZ, can act as a form of curse. Covid-19 maybe very real, but there's no doubt a psychological component to it. Even smart people are acting very hysterical about it. All you have to do is weigh the risk and odds. You should not pay too much attention to your chance of catching it, because that's very high! There's also a chance that you can have it and not even know it. Some reasoning would tell us that quite often it is a nothing disease. Only worry about it if you become very sick and they need hospitalization with it and look at those rates and the rates of the people that are dying! That's not high at all. It's certainly not high enough to justify shutting down the whole US economy. |
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(OP) User ID: 79127950 Canada 09/05/2020 08:00 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Good post. Quoting: Anonymous Coward 79278426 The real virus is FEAR. People have dropped dead because they believed strongly that a witch doctor had put a curse on them. Belief makes reality to a large extent. Absolutely. "A wise man listens to the message and uses his logic and discernment to process it, a fool negates the message by prejudging the messenger." "He whose centre is everywhere and whose circumference is nowhere." |
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