I'm not at all saying that allostatic load isn't interesting to consider; if the chronic overload of toxic bullshit in the last 10 years didn't overlap with COVID, perhaps it would be the top consideration.
But the reality is that for most people, COVID explains basically all of the extra sickness.

If COVID wasn't a thing; if we didn't have TONS of research about it being an immune disruptor; if we didn’t know that the damage of COVID compounds; if the brilliant @katemanne.bsky.social hadn't directly stated that she'd had COVID… if any or all of things weren’t true, allostatic load would...

There seems to be “a moral imperative to know every meticulous detail of all Earthly horrors.”

Mclamb thinks it comes from guilt-> “If I couldn’t directly help, the least I could do was witness. The least I could do was watch, feeling increasingly helpless, feeling increasingly numb.“

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The playbook for white evangelicals is:

Deny reality that contradicts your worldview
Refuse to take accountability
Punish those who do not obey/ agree with you

Now that everyone in the world is seeing how fucked up this is, maybe have some compassion for people who grew up with parents like this?

I need a whole discussion group of people to talk through this post with - recommended read: dlmayfield.substack.com/p/how-to-sur...

“I started receiving bad news every day and added very many new gray hairs. This person had an accident, that person had to be hospitalized, a cancer scare for multiple, threats of evacuation and actual evacuations, homes lost and towns lost and dreams and histories and livelihoods… 1/2