Of course, most people in the world have a religious belief in the new virus. And that opens the door to: “psychological COVID.”
Here is what it can look like.
A person is watching TV for hours. He’s treated to wall-to-wall news, ads, public service announcements—all about the virus and the pandemic. After days and weeks and months of this solid operant conditioning, he’s in the COVID frame of mind.
He’s IN the context, the box, the pattern, the story line.
He occasionally feels a bit of this and that: a scratchy throat, a sniffle. So he thinks, “Maybe this is the start of COVID.” One day, he has a headache. He thinks, “Didn’t they say that could be a symptom, too?”
He takes his temperature. 99.8. He tries to remember—“Isn’t my normal always a bit low?”
He calls his sister and asks her. She says, “Yes, you usually came up 98. Why? What’s the matter?”
“Nothing. I had a little cough yesterday, so I took my temperature. It was 99.8.”
“Call the doctor.”
“I’ll be fine.”
“You don’t know that. CALL THE DOCTOR.”
After talking to his sister, his throat feels raw. He makes some tea. He putters around the apartment. He feels tired. For a second, a pain shoots up his arm. “They said the virus could cause a heart problem.”
He goes to the fridge, takes out half a cake and eats a large slice. Now he really feels tired, so he lies down and goes to sleep. When he wakes up, his nose is stuffed. He walks into the bathroom and blows his nose. He looks at himself in the mirror. His eyes are a little red. His face is pale.
He coughs three times.
He calls his doctor. A nurse says, “Well, you might have a few symptoms. You should come in and get tested.”
The next day he does.
For two days, while he’s waiting for the results, he’s sneezing on and off. His head is stuffed. He’s sleeping more than usual. His limbs ache a bit. Is he feeling a chill, or is that a breeze blowing in through the screen?
If you told him his thoughts and his mindset could be bringing on physical symptoms, he wouldn’t believe you. Every year for the past ten years, he’s had at least one episode of cough-sneeze-slight fever, and he’s thought nothing of it…but if you reminded him of that now, he wouldn’t pay attention. No, this is different. He begins to feel fear.
In that state of mild fear, he imagines going to the hospital and being put on a ventilator. He imagines infecting someone else and being found out. He imagines dying.
The fear ratchets up. He sits in front of the TV, hoping to distract himself. But the commercials show people wearing masks.
The next day, the phone rings. It’s the nurse. She tells him he’s positive for COVID. He’s infected. He’ll need to isolate himself for two weeks, and if the symptoms become worse, he should go to Emergency…
Now his fever inches over 100. He’s coughing more.
Getting the picture?
If you don’t think the mind and thoughts can affect the body, think again.
If you don’t think the ability to resist and shake off a concocted story-line is important, think again.
If you don’t think the refusal to accept official pronouncements is vital…
This person I’m describing, who has now been tagged with the COVID label, is suffering from NOTHING.
As in: NOTHING.
He’s adding up and making up his own story line, which puts him in a hole.
If someone slapping him in the face could wake him up, someone should slap him in the face.
He’s just been suckered in, and he’s suckering himself in.
“Sir, you have psychological COVID. It goes under a better name. Sucker’s Disease.”
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