Because of the naive 'Covid zero' message many Australians can’t come to terms with catching Covid | Sarah Simons
by Sarah Simons from Science | The Guardian on (#5TWDR)
It is a hard psychological U-turn and we are seeing the mental distress in the emergency department
Over the past few weeks, holiday festivities have prised open the Covid floodgates. The Christmas season brought parties, festivals, family reunions with enthusiastic hugs, dinners, dancing and energetic karaoke sessions - an antidote to months of relentless doomscrolling and prolonged lockdowns - but Covid cases have now inevitably skyrocketed.
Things have changed; we're not in the same situation we were two years ago - 91% of the Australian population have had two jabs and nearly 3.9bn people have been fully vaccinated across the world.
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