Comments by "iggle" (@iggle6448) on "Zoe Strimpel: The tyranny of ‘wellbeing’ | The Brendan O'Neill Show" video.

  1. Studies have shown that if you isolate any person for only 21 days their mental health begins to break down quickly. I'm probably old enough to be this young woman's mother and I find her thinking retrogressive, a sort of harking back to gungho, stiff upper lip and buck up, feelings aren't important! I've been in the laptop demographic since the late 90s so I'm more than used to being a self motivator, working alone and with colleagues via the internet/phone - interspersed by meetings all over the country and the world. But lockdowns were crushing for me - we didn't have any choice to just pop anywhere. It was legal imprisonment (no matter how valid the reasons) compounded by constant and deliberate gov and media terrorisation. I am sure that this same isolation fragility is what a very large section of the population experiences anyway because they're older and /or disabled. It seems to me that younger people have had an advance taste of exactly that as a result of lockdowns and restrictions - and now many are suffering those effects that are in normal times (in the case of seniors and disabled people) brushed aside and forgotten by the rest of society. I found Ms Strimple's opinions to be simplistic, narrowly-focused and superficial. Isolation is always an injury, an abuse to our bodies and our minds, no matter what age.
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