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a Mosaic of the end of isolation – the reduction in the number of infected COVID-19 and the opening of the “Islands of life” – offices, parks, beaches, the rollback to repeated quarantines, too, begins to irritate. So, according to the who, between the withdrawal, the exit and the threat of infection COVID-19 stuck from about 3.6 to 7.5 billion earthlings. This condition on the predictions of virologists will last until the end of 2021, and the way out for another two to three years. Scientists at the Institute of psychology RAS, the uncertainty is compared to the front line, which is everywhere – invisible advanced.

such Is the nature of the impact of the pandemic is the fabric of our behavior creates risks of new infections, – says a leading researcher at the Institute of psychology RAS Timothy Nestik. – Behavior is governed by accumulated in isolation, fear and anxiety, diminishing trust in people and the world, a deliberate weakening of the near and far relations, which became a gesture postaveni culture, and the growing fear of social upheaval, which creates a desire to rely on a steady hand. All these risk factors can develop into a stress. His natural healing is the strengthening of contacts with family and the restoration of “weak ties” – corporate, neighborhood, leisure. However, the “weak ties” are weakening due to the compression of a real network of relations in favor of virtual networks and “numbers”. As a result, difficult not only a way out of isolation – inhibited social and technological innovation, are constrained-the-box thinking and attempts at breakthrough solutions.

according to surveys conducted by the PI, RAS and the Center for social design “Platform”, postcoloniality fears people call fragmentation (45%), supertasty (41%) and loneliness (14%).

the Despondency and depression the person is pressed because the alarm state caused by isolation, depletes the stock of psychological resources, but exacerbates the painful desire to understand “what it was”, – said a senior researcher at IP RAS Julia Bykhovets. Hence the comparison of virus with radioactive contamination of personality “like Chernobyl” or the blindness of terrorism. Even the ubiquitous conspiracy explanation is also a kind of “blind target” due to feelings of helplessness. Experience postcoronary stress shows that focusing on the separation of people for the sake of opposition to the virus, but it also has costs. Primarily psychological.

researchers came to the conclusion that the modern man is not immune to fragmentation, as the virus. It looks like disease, the psychological effects go in waves. To normal life, the company will return when you establish not only a system of testing and vaccination, but also to develop psychological immunity to the contagion.

While post-traumatic types of stress, people often treated with folk remedies – kicking the CR��n wedge. Disunity and fear resolved by semi-filling sports, often football stands or the beaches of the Crimea long before their discovery. Or “the people” in hair salons, museums, restaurants and the metro – the people are chosen, not always observing the social distance and resorting to all measures of protection. Or frequently refutes what he wanted. So, in Sochi, activists took to the streets to protest, demanding open public toilets. Though three months ago they achieved their partial closure due to the threat of the virus. City hall, on the contrary, insisted that the toilets are safe, but people took it as kovid-dissidence. Now the explanation of urban managers that the stationary cabins and portable toilets enough, provoked a storm of criticism: “This is obscurantism isolation”.

the mood of the people stagger because with the growth of the infection COVID-19 in the world, according to the who, began a global mental health crisis. And the first vulnerable to mental illness… have become doctors. Then the children, followed by elderly people. From interviews of IE RAS, it follows that depression, despite the applause from the doctors, sung in their honor song, raised monuments, worried 50.4% of health care workers, anxiety is 44.6%, sleep disorders – 34%, distress is 71.5%.

– According to research by Israeli scientists, says senior researcher at IP RAS Maria Padun, identifying themselves before a military operation with the hero dramatically provokes stress. Through the pressure of moral burden – to the doctor it’s important not to lose self-esteem and to fulfill the Hippocratic oath. But they are alive: I’m afraid to infect family and friends, help people, often under conditions of overload, so for them a betrayal of sound careless words – “a virus is a fake”. Or is the refusal from social distance, masks and gloves. So doctors not only the characters, but still “pilot” project COVID-19 mental test of personality and society on the strength of their health. And instead of doctors to consider obligated to be heroes, it is necessary for them to leave the right selection on heroism.

Scientists warn of the need for attention to psychological state doctors. If left alone with hard work, by the end of 2020 they will burnout – professional and moral. And it may provoke burnout that part of society that without the doctors one-on-one remain with with the virus.

meanwhile, deaths from pneumonia and coronavirus, according to Rospotrebnadzor, the epidemiological thresholds are not exceeded. That is, no epidemic, its threat and fear.

the Cause of an outbreak of fear because of the infection that the social network of the day can make mankind one collective brain and infect it with a virulent emotion or idea, – says a senior researcher of the Institute of psychology RAS Olga mahovskaya. – I must say thank you to COVID for the fact that he pointed out howabout the society vulnerable to outbreaks of fear. But the fear will win and arresting people, including individually, and this is another good lesson of self-isolation. The media made a bet on anxiety, and on the removal of fear, has found himself a new role. In this role, they, along with the audience and the reader looking for meaning, not just rapidly changing images.

In studies of IE RAS, the scientists proceeded from the world of practice: “factory alarm” the media becomes when frightening and fake news relayed their census, often faster than reliable information. Scientists have proposed a TV and networks move: fake posts not to block, and the tag “may contain false information”. At the same time to give the floor to experts and eyewitnesses – those who had, is fighting or has won a “crown”. The result: the number of shares fell to half. Against the background of involvement of experts-virologists of the first row and tranquil tone in the flow of information has been folding two levels of solidarity of society – the “manifestation of feelings” (rallying around the test) and volunteering.

As she machowska, caught a direct connection between the pandemic of fear and the landmark society of solidarity has reduced the degree of General mistrust, but have not removed it. Today the main vulnerable points on which stress can beat, fear of vaccination, a low level of trust in institutions and people, fear of the “figure”, not available to the poor, and the uncertainty of the future. While psychologists believe that in order to predict how to win postcoronary stress, it is necessary to consider different people’s attitudes to global threats. Scientists distinguish three groups of beliefs, which, like the partisans of Victory, different resist stress. The first is characterized by a distrust of social institutions and catastrophic consciousness. These people do not give trouble to miss. The second group of stabilizers. Their conservatism helps to mobilize society. The third group – the “mobile” or mobile group adaptation to the threats of the future through the growth of tolerance and trust. Together they hold the balance of psychological health, but it is, when experiencing stress, looking for simple solutions. And they stress “freeze” – to provide asymmetry (confusion) instead of a balance. And only the balance of forces, for example, first isolation, led to the fact that the prevailing faith in the curbing of the virus through unity and cooperation that keeps the society from the temptation of the extremes and simplifications.

“Tablet” from the syndrome’s five COVIDов, as scientists believe, the same that took to self-isolation, social trust, value, care about people and faith.

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Jennifer Alvarez is an investigative journalist and is a correspondent for European Union. She is based in Zurich in Switzerland and her field of work include covering human rights violations which take place in the various countries in and outside Europe. She also reports about the political situation in European Union. She has worked with some reputed companies in Europe and is currently contributing to USA News as a freelance journalist. As someone who has a Masters’ degree in Human Rights she also delivers lectures on Intercultural Management to students of Human Rights. She is also an authority on the Arab world politics and their diversity.