But psychiatry is known for appreciating that often the past needs to be better processed so that we can move on more psychologically unencumbered to the future. To be sure, the pandemic in its severity is no longer present, although less severe variants are. It overlapped the end of past President Trump’s administration, and our government’s response was late, apparently causing more unnecessary deaths despite the rapid development of vaccines. As past President Clinton successfully said during his initial presidential run: “it’s the economy, stupid?” Maybe it still is. Knoll C, Diaz E, Mayorquín O, Goldstein D. Behind the election anger may be something else: lingering Covid anger.

Source: New York Times November 05, 2024 13:49 UTC