The downsides of covid-19

The frequently mentioned downsides of covid-19 include high death rate of covid-19 compared to influenzas, economical hardship on millions of American workers, especially those in service/hospitality industries, mental health issues.

There are a few major ones I see that are rarely mentioned in the news or in people's conversation.

Fear of covid-19 

Due to mainstream media's relentless report of bad news about covid-19, and barely mention the flip side of the same facts, e.g. death vs. recovery, a good percentage of people have unreasonable fear of covid-19.  This is ok since different people have different level of tolerance of risks. When unreasonable fear gets into policy makings, few officials' fear became hundreds of thousand of people's mandate. 

Many people and many governments take extreme measures in order to have zero risk from covid-19.  Any people with scientific knowledge know, we should control risk, but should not try make it Zero - which is impossible and wasteful. One obvious example: We have had traffic accidents death every day, e.g. 36k people died in 2019, we don't stop driving because of it. 

Fear makes people irrational.

Tons of Bio-trashes and trashes

Because of fear, people not working in medical facilities or near patients have used disposable facemasks, disposable gloves widely, leading to tons of bio trashes without really reducing their chance of getting infected. 

Instead of recycle, reuse, now everything is disposable, and further more many places, including working places, do not allow customers, employees to use the reusable cups, bags …….

It seems nobody talks about the environment protection any more …. 

It is getting better now,  at least many people started to reuse their facemasks, and gloves.

Of course the trash is  more than disposable facemasks or gloves.

The cardboard boxes from online shopping are a big problems as well …. 

Hypocritical politicians 

How many times we have heard that hypocritical politicians imposed restrictions on ordinary people …. no travel, no going to restaurants.... they did exactly what they prohibit others to do? This include Joe Biden, who on one day imposed facemask mandate on federal properties, and appeared with no facemask on federal property the very next day!!!

Pandemic induced health issues

More people gain weight during this pandemic than ever before, due to not enough physical activities and consumption of large amount of junk food

An even more serious issue is loneness, isolation and stress, this is especially true for those who have unreasonable fear of covid-19.

Covid-19 is serious matter, take precautions, follow general guidelines, don't be scared, life goes on.