The lack of leadership from Washington it making medical systems in states that should be cooperating compete for limited supplies. The deep denial in Mississippi and to a lesser extent Alabama is setting them up for a massive outbreak.
A brain therapist I know consults with another brain expert in Oklahoma. The other day she was asking him if this whole corona virus thing was real. She heard little snippets, but the local news and everyone she knows locally think it's a hoax. She's not connected with emergency medicine in any way, but she is a medical professional and she was not fully aware of the medical tsunami headed for her state.
I've been thinking a lot about the Psychological impact of COVID-19. It's going to be multi faceted and in some cases severe. Some people who are stuck in isolation too long will start to decompensate like prisoners in solitary can do. People who already have some anxiety issues are going to have them cranked to 11. And those who have been denouncing this as a hoax are either going to have a shock possibly bigger than 9/11 when it strikes down people they know, or they will remain in deep denial up to the moment their lungs quit working and they asphyxiate. Some of the people who remain in denial may have psychotic breaks from trying to deny reality.
I read the divorce rate in Wuhan has skyrocketed. I expect more domestic violence, more divorce, possibly an increase in crimes of mischief as youth too bored to stay in any longer go out looking for some stimulation. Others may loose it and go on a rampage with their gun collections.
Probably most people who survive this will have some Psychological scars they will carry the rest of their lives.
