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And Who Are The Creators Of That Hysteria?

Hysteria is the most dangerous coronavirus symptom

We need to follow the Swedish example, and keep calm and use our common sense

The symptoms of coronavirus should by now be well-known: a high temperature, a new, continuous cough and - in a recent official addition - problems with your sense of taste or smell. But another symptom has reared its head - affecting those who haven’t even been infected - which may be too troubling for authorities to handle. Some bill it as mere public anxiety, but others see the levels of fear as tantamount to full-blown hysteria.

The rush back in March among shoppers to stock up on essential goods, with some around the world even coming to blows in the aisles over items as basic as toilet paper, showed how pervasive the panic had become. Four months on, Ipsos MORI found after surveying opinion across 27 countries that the British were more likely to be concerned about Covid (59 per cent) than the global average (43 per cent).

Such findings have prompted Tory MPs to wonder whether the Government’s ordering of the public to “stay home” has been too effective, given how embedded the nervousness has become. Research commissioned that July by the firm Kekst CNC showed how far public perceptions about the pandemic had been skewed, finding they were inclined to believe the spread and fatality was more than a hundred times worse than the reality.

For example, the average Briton was found last month to estimate that the disease had wiped out as much as 7 per cent of the United Kingdom, which would equate to around 4.6 million people, rather than the actual rate in the tens of thousands. They estimate just over 22 per cent of the population have had Covid-19, which at just over 14.6 million people would be well over the current confirmed case tally of 322,000.

“When people estimate risk, they overestimate it massively,” says King College London’s Professor Neil Greenberg, who works with Public Health England as part of the Health Protection Research Unit for Emergency Preparedness and Response. “We are very poor as a public at estimating what risk really means.” (read more)

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