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Jul. 19th, 2020 12:25 pm
What to call this
My parents have two friends, both women in their age, who both published books this year. More similarities both wrote about their parents. We can call the friends the physical therapist and the artist. The physical therapist wrote about her mom. She, the mom. wrote poetry, but also had bipolar disease and possible also autism spectrum disorder. The last, of course, a diagnose not used, or hardly ever used, back in the days. The mother spended a lot of time in psychiatric hospital and the daughter had to handle that.
The artist wrote about her parents that was part of the Danish resistance movement in world war two. After the war they moved from Denmark to north Sweden, there their daughter was born. Moving to north Sweden, that's one thing to do after having fight in the war. One book we had in the bookstore was In the shadow of the American century by Alfred McCoy. McCoy is also from the same generation as my parents and described the war veteranes in his parents generation as heavy drinkers, heavy smokers with access to guns (risk factor for suicide). Could moving away be another way of handling a experience, that may or may not be similar? Anyone made a study on "Change in geography and ptsd"? (Living in northen Scandinavia sterotypical also means access to firearms - for hunting.)
Btw the reason why I am not mentioning names is I don't want them to find my journal, and since the books are not translated, most of you aren't intressted away.
New subject. One thing about writing about the pandemic is hoping what you're writing turn out to be true. So you can be smug about being right. So now I am going to write three things I have been wrong about here, when it comes to covid. One, my hope that the numbers of death in the US should continue going down. Insted, well, you know what happened instead. (Things that I don’t want to discuss, because I don't f**king know anything about it, is the following. In California it so bad that our health authority use it as an indication that “facemasks” in public isn’t the great, easy solution many want it to be. California has high use of masks and the curves are still going in the wrong way.)
Two, not a big one but after I linked to the Karolinska institute paper on t-cell responding to SARS-CoV-2, I added I had heard it could mean that mortality per infection could in Stockholm be just under 0.2%. That was based on their very small sample size of blood-donors in Sweden, not just Stockholm, during May and the finding that 30% had new coronavirus-specific T cells. That’s not the last word, more studies will come.
Three, I thought the stress from the virus should lead to an epidemic of mental health problems. Now you start seeing headlines that that isn’t happening.
The artist wrote about her parents that was part of the Danish resistance movement in world war two. After the war they moved from Denmark to north Sweden, there their daughter was born. Moving to north Sweden, that's one thing to do after having fight in the war. One book we had in the bookstore was In the shadow of the American century by Alfred McCoy. McCoy is also from the same generation as my parents and described the war veteranes in his parents generation as heavy drinkers, heavy smokers with access to guns (risk factor for suicide). Could moving away be another way of handling a experience, that may or may not be similar? Anyone made a study on "Change in geography and ptsd"? (Living in northen Scandinavia sterotypical also means access to firearms - for hunting.)
Btw the reason why I am not mentioning names is I don't want them to find my journal, and since the books are not translated, most of you aren't intressted away.
New subject. One thing about writing about the pandemic is hoping what you're writing turn out to be true. So you can be smug about being right. So now I am going to write three things I have been wrong about here, when it comes to covid. One, my hope that the numbers of death in the US should continue going down. Insted, well, you know what happened instead. (Things that I don’t want to discuss, because I don't f**king know anything about it, is the following. In California it so bad that our health authority use it as an indication that “facemasks” in public isn’t the great, easy solution many want it to be. California has high use of masks and the curves are still going in the wrong way.)
Two, not a big one but after I linked to the Karolinska institute paper on t-cell responding to SARS-CoV-2, I added I had heard it could mean that mortality per infection could in Stockholm be just under 0.2%. That was based on their very small sample size of blood-donors in Sweden, not just Stockholm, during May and the finding that 30% had new coronavirus-specific T cells. That’s not the last word, more studies will come.
Three, I thought the stress from the virus should lead to an epidemic of mental health problems. Now you start seeing headlines that that isn’t happening.