From The Bodies of Others (Naomi Wolf 2022) p154
I had to stay healthy and boost my immune system and be in ventilated spaces. I should not sit face-to-face with someone who might be ill in a closed room for fifteen minutes. Indeed, I should avoid crowded, unventilated spaces. I had to get sunshine and Vitamin D. I had to exercise to avoid hypertension, a major risk factor for COVID-19, and obesity, the second top risk factor. These were not terrifying messages—they were reasonable goals. While the disease was scary, indeed, and serious for many, these messages based on the science cited by the “dissident” doctors and researchers, were not messages that made one feel helpless. People could take action to make good decisions to promote their chances of protecting their health. But many of my friends and family were not reading these sources, and the primary messages they were getting were about staying inside alone in terror of a holistically threatening world. So they were frozen with fear.
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