With all due respect to #COVID, putting people (especially old) in detainment makes them psychologically and biologically worse and worse. A study once concluded that exposing mice to radiation harmed their immunity system. However, my father (a biologist) told me that a different study found that just moving a mouse through corridors in a building had the same bad effect on their immunity system even without exposing to radiation, due to causing stress and fright. Humans wish to go outside and do what they want ( "as you wish" / "make it so" / "carpe diem" ): Saladin Style .
NOTE: here is a citation that my father found about the effect of stress on the immune system. I also recall reading that Maimonides noted that a person's optimism influenced his recovery, and there may likely have been earlier sources.
The months i spent in the closed psychiatric ward for being "bipolar" and unable to leave were worse than my 6.5 years in the technion, and they would be even worse if I weren't so resourceful: Highway to Hell ; Wyclef Jean - Wish You Were Here.
Author | Shlomi Fish |
Work | Facebook Post |
Published | 2021-01-25 |