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CNN: we are never going back to "normal" and you must accept that

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More hysteria porn that we can leverage for continued WFH.
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Best way to look at it
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Literally kill these kikes
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meanwhile in sweden....
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Systemic racism bc there aren’t any black people there...
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probably true to an extent
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CR. Very troubling when I read this.
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Date: October 1st, 2020 12:25 PM
Author: orchid sanctuary kitty cat

https://amp.cnn.com/cnn/2020/09/30/health/back-to-normal-bias-wellness/index.html

CNN) — As 2020 slides into and probably infects 2021, try to take heart in one discomfiting fact: Things are most likely never going "back to normal."

It has become a well-worn phrase our politicians, officials, experts, even family, like to lean on — an ultimate, elusive prize.

Pandemic denial: Why some people can't accept Covid-19's realities

Related Article: Pandemic denial: Why some people can't accept Covid-19's realities

Perhaps it's nostalgia for the world of January, a place where daily life more closely resembled our past decades. Perhaps it's a bid to show control, to revert to a time when change was not so universally imposed upon us.

But January is long gone, and it's not coming back. And, psychologists will tell you, that's only bad if you can't come to terms with it.

We are slowly learning if this year's changes are permanent. If work — for the lucky among us — will remain from home. If we will visit the grocery store less but spend more. If we will find wearing a mask on the metro to be just part of life. If shaking hands and embracing will become less common. If most of your daily interactions will occur via video conference (rather than in person).

"Five years' change in six months" is a common slogan for the pandemic. The disruption has upended lives in jobs lost and relatives who live alone or perhaps died without saying the right goodbyes.

Yet permanently severing ties with January is not necessarily a bad thing, psychologists say. The danger comes from hankering for normalcy again, rather than getting on with working out how to deal with whatever is ahead.

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"Politicians who pretend that 'normal' is just around the corner are fooling themselves or their followers, or perhaps both," said Thomas Davenport, the president's distinguished professor of information technology and management at Babson College in Wellesley, Massachusetts.

"People who suffer tragedies eventually return to their previous happiness level," Davenport said via email. "But I think that COVID-19 is a little different, because we keep expecting it will end soon. So there is no need to permanently change your attitudes about it."

The human tendency to believe change is temporary and that the future will again resemble the past is often called "normalcy bias."

People who don't adapt to change believe what they remember as "normal" will return, and delay modifying their daily routines or outlook. Those who refuse to wear masks may be guilty of normalcy bias, Davenport said, since they perceive this intrusion into lives as a passing fad they don't need to embrace.

Hardwired to adapt

The brain's circuitry does prefer to survive, however: While part of our minds may be inclined to resist change as we feel disasters are a passing event, another stronger part of our brains embraces the new swiftly.

Refusing to wear face masks should be as taboo as drunk driving, science chief says

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"Hedonic adaptation" is the elaborate name for why we survive: It's the mind's ability to accept quickly something in your environment that weeks earlier would have stopped you in your tracks. Originally intended to protect humans from predators, it's hardwired — so we do not constantly see all relatively new things as threats and miss the newer, bigger ones.

"When both good and bad things happen, at first you feel intense emotions," said Sonja Lyubomirsky, distinguished professor of psychology at the University of California, Riverside. "Then you adjust and you go back to baseline. This is much more powerful with positive events. People don't adapt as completely to negative change in their lives."

The benefit of hedonic adaptation is it works in all directions. Changes that alter daily life one month may be as quickly dropped the next when they are no longer relevant. "It could be to adapting to the mask as the new normal," Lyubomirsky said, before dropping the mask, "and then adapting back to the old normal."

The behaviors that stick are those that are wired into our daily routines, that are "triggered automatically," she said. "If it's a real habit, it can actually maintain itself. Now we wash our hands more frequently without even thinking. That's something that could definitely stay with us."

How to find resilience during the coronavirus pandemic

Related Article: How to find resilience during the coronavirus pandemic

It's the same with the previous generation who grew up during the Depression and are still particularly fastidious about not wasting food or anything else. It's a habit that stayed with them.

Yet short-term changes are easily dropped. Lyubomirsky recalled an open-air meeting of academics she attended in Montana this past summer where Covid tests were administered and protocols were maintained.

Within minutes, the attendees' behavior had flipped back to pre-pandemic proximity to each other.

"We all went right back to as though the pandemic wasn't happening," she said. "Everyone was just kind of gleeful. I didn't even notice I was doing it until later."

Life is essentially a series of changes and adaptation, she said, and the latter is something humans do well. People tend to place more weight on whatever they are feeling in the moment, Lyubomirsky said.

She recalled a vegetarian friend who started eating meat again when the pandemic made it seem pointless. Another friend dyed her hair, without explanation. "She's like, 'Because f--- it. I'm just going to color my hair blue.'"

"We overweight it," she said. "It's so wonderful, or it's so awful. But it tends to go back."

Our circuitry tends to override our doomscrolling. "We're actually more resilient than we think."

As with everything, we will find out just how resilient we are, and the future may seem normal again, however different it is.

Nick Paton Walsh is an Emmy Award-winning international security editor for CNN International based in London who focuses on stories from the Middle East, the former Soviet Union, Afghanistan and the surrounding region, and Latin America.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4638952&forum_id=2#41025124)



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Date: October 1st, 2020 12:27 PM
Author: Thriller forum



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Date: October 1st, 2020 12:28 PM
Author: fragrant twisted piazza son of senegal

This is insane

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4638952&forum_id=2#41025138)



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Date: October 1st, 2020 1:19 PM
Author: Talented fishy lettuce



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Date: October 1st, 2020 12:29 PM
Author: Slimy duck-like trump supporter

“Life is essentially a series of changes and adaptation, she said, and the latter is something humans do well. People tend to place more weight on whatever they are feeling in the moment, Lyubomirsky said.

She recalled a vegetarian friend who started eating meat again when the pandemic made it seem pointless. Another friend dyed her hair, without explanation. "She's like, 'Because f--- it. I'm just going to color my hair blue.'"

Just your average ordinary Americans

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4638952&forum_id=2#41025142)



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Date: October 1st, 2020 12:30 PM
Author: Exhilarant cordovan volcanic crater

Psychological warfare

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4638952&forum_id=2#41025145)



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Date: October 1st, 2020 12:50 PM
Author: cyan national



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Date: October 1st, 2020 1:19 PM
Author: Talented fishy lettuce



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Date: October 1st, 2020 3:13 PM
Author: Insecure violet keepsake machete



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Date: October 1st, 2020 3:14 PM
Author: trip mustard shrine rigor



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Date: October 1st, 2020 4:25 PM
Author: Ruddy headpube voyeur



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Date: October 1st, 2020 12:33 PM
Author: concupiscible newt

anybody still buying into this stuff should just be culled off like terminally sick animals

seriously, if you are actually still being successfully brainwashed by this, you're not even human anymore

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4638952&forum_id=2#41025154)



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Date: October 1st, 2020 12:49 PM
Author: Brass den brethren



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Date: October 1st, 2020 1:20 PM
Author: Talented fishy lettuce



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Date: October 1st, 2020 4:25 PM
Author: lime orchestra pit



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Date: October 1st, 2020 12:38 PM
Author: Comical nubile round eye

More hysteria porn that we can leverage for continued WFH.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4638952&forum_id=2#41025182)



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Date: October 1st, 2020 12:49 PM
Author: amethyst frum quadroon

cr

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Date: October 1st, 2020 12:50 PM
Author: Milky Supple Field

Best way to look at it

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4638952&forum_id=2#41025297)



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Date: October 1st, 2020 1:22 PM
Author: Green Motley Persian Set

Cr, I'm the biggest COVID panic freakshow faggot in my company, it's 180. So far, I'm finding OPENING US UP TO LIABILITY being a better motivator than anything for continued wfh.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4638952&forum_id=2#41025481)



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Date: October 1st, 2020 2:16 PM
Author: snowy hairraiser cruise ship really tough guy

""Politicians who pretend that 'normal' is just around the corner are fooling themselves or their followers, or perhaps both," said Thomas Davenport, the president's distinguished professor of information technology and management at Babson College in Wellesley, Massachusetts.:

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4638952&forum_id=2#41025918)



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Date: October 1st, 2020 12:50 PM
Author: Pink Area

Literally kill these kikes

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4638952&forum_id=2#41025295)



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Date: October 1st, 2020 12:51 PM
Author: Brass den brethren

People who don't adapt to change believe what they remember as "normal" will return, and delay modifying their daily routines or outlook. Those who refuse to wear masks may be guilty of normalcy bias, Davenport said, since they perceive this intrusion into lives as a passing fad they don't need to embrace

This is fucking insane

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4638952&forum_id=2#41025305)



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Date: October 1st, 2020 1:19 PM
Author: orchid sanctuary kitty cat



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Date: October 1st, 2020 1:20 PM
Author: Talented fishy lettuce



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Date: October 1st, 2020 1:25 PM
Author: Disturbing electric idiot



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Date: October 1st, 2020 1:35 PM
Author: Dark hyperventilating bbw lodge

Leaving your house and sending kids to school is just a passing fad. Once you accept that those things are relics of a bygone era, you'll be happy!

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4638952&forum_id=2#41025556)



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Date: October 1st, 2020 1:53 PM
Author: Glittery sexy dopamine university

normalcy bias

normalcy bias

normalcy bias

normalcy bias

normalcy bias

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4638952&forum_id=2#41025724)



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Date: October 1st, 2020 3:13 PM
Author: Insecure violet keepsake machete



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Date: October 1st, 2020 4:09 PM
Author: Flushed Fiercely-loyal Striped Hyena



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Date: October 1st, 2020 4:22 PM
Author: trip mustard shrine rigor



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Date: October 1st, 2020 4:25 PM
Author: Ruddy headpube voyeur

Libs need to be immediately det

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4638952&forum_id=2#41026949)



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Date: October 1st, 2020 1:21 PM
Author: cracking ebony parlour hairy legs

"As 2020 slides into and probably infects 2021"

This is the most Jewish thing I have ever read

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4638952&forum_id=2#41025477)



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Date: October 1st, 2020 1:27 PM
Author: Well-lubricated alcoholic preventive strike

meanwhile in sweden....

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4638952&forum_id=2#41025508)



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Date: October 1st, 2020 1:30 PM
Author: Disturbing electric idiot

jfc I'm going to lose it I swear to fucking god

"TRUST IN SCIENCE!" okay let's do some "science" and collect data and formulate hypotheses, which we then refine through further data collection, oh hey look here's a giant glaring data point that says lockdowns and masks don't matter in the long run great let's just fucking memoryhole that one

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4638952&forum_id=2#41025530)



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Date: October 1st, 2020 1:48 PM
Author: Brass den brethren

libs will say Sweden did those things and you're mistaken, then start talking about Trump if confronted w reality

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4638952&forum_id=2#41025665)



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Date: October 1st, 2020 1:49 PM
Author: orchid sanctuary kitty cat

Seriously tho, what is the official lib party line response to Sweden's success story?

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4638952&forum_id=2#41025679)



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Date: October 1st, 2020 1:50 PM
Author: Pink Area

Systemic racism bc there aren’t any black people there or something

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4638952&forum_id=2#41025690)



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Date: October 1st, 2020 1:53 PM
Author: Dashing gunner toaster

probably true to an extent

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4638952&forum_id=2#41025722)



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Date: October 1st, 2020 2:19 PM
Author: curious coral gas station windowlicker

*science shows the IFR for people under 50 is significantly lower than seasonal flu, lockdowns do more harm than good and masks are worthless*

"fuck science just do it anyway!" - libs

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4638952&forum_id=2#41025938)



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Date: October 1st, 2020 3:19 PM
Author: Exciting Peach Base



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Date: October 1st, 2020 1:31 PM
Author: cobalt titillating clown

Will do, thank

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Date: October 1st, 2020 1:33 PM
Author: Fear-inspiring bat shit crazy school

what the fuck is going on

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4638952&forum_id=2#41025545)



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Date: October 1st, 2020 1:52 PM
Author: ocher space nowag

CR.

Very troubling when I read this.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4638952&forum_id=2#41025707)



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Date: October 1st, 2020 1:52 PM
Author: indigo legend



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Date: October 1st, 2020 1:55 PM
Author: curious coral gas station windowlicker

EXECUTE ALL FUCKING LIBS NOW!

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4638952&forum_id=2#41025744)



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Date: October 1st, 2020 3:16 PM
Author: Nofapping umber range hominid

by far the scariest thing about a biden win is that these people will be in control.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4638952&forum_id=2#41026360)



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Date: October 1st, 2020 4:14 PM
Author: Flushed Fiercely-loyal Striped Hyena

I thought that, if Biden won, that the VIRUS would suddenly go away (since it was all an antiTrump ploy anyway)

Now, I think, if Biden wins, we just go lockdowns forever, since the libs have come to fully believe their own Big Lie. America’s youth will just be Zoom taught by teachers from here on out (with no actual socialization and educational gain), and the already-dying civil society will be snuffed out once and for all (church, clubs, etc). Libs are actually going to create a hellscape in this country

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4638952&forum_id=2#41026873)



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Date: October 1st, 2020 4:26 PM
Author: Ruddy headpube voyeur



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Date: October 1st, 2020 4:28 PM
Author: Dashing gunner toaster

i think this whole thing has been a stress test of how much they can fuck with the middle class with them just continuing to eat shit

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4638952&forum_id=2#41026978)



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Date: October 1st, 2020 4:29 PM
Author: Nofapping umber range hominid



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Date: October 1st, 2020 5:21 PM
Author: Fuchsia soul-stirring sound barrier senate



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