'Almost like a social pandemic': As states pause reopenings, experts warn of more confusion, isolation, agitation

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'Almost like a social pandemic': As states pause reopenings, experts warn of more confusion, isolation, agitation
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These reopening stops and starts can trigger feelings of frustration and fatigue and leave people feeling overwhelmed.

and that when nightclubs in the state opened their doors, it “sent the signal that we had, again, defeated COVID and, obviously, that is not the case.”

Dr. Thomas File Jr., president of the Infectious Diseases Society of America, equates these problems to being “almost like a social pandemic” that can heighten the burdens and stresses placed on the most vulnerable. “The U.S. has not invested in a lot of the social protections that leave people feeling like they have a safety net,” Dr. Linda Fried, dean of the Mailman School of Public Health at Columbia University and professor of epidemiology, told USA TODAY. “And without a safety net and without a social infrastructure of connectedness and cohesion of communities, which we’ve lost a lot of, it exacerbates the sense of anxiety and fear and isolation that people have in these circumstances.

Fortune said it would be a “mistake” to frame the discussion on reopening as a dichotomy between staying healthy and letting people return to work. A"basic package of risk mitigation strategies” could get society to “feel, functionally, if not normal, pretty normal” and keep economies humming, she said.

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