The effects of pandemic response will certainly be long lasting. But can you imagine a scenario where the response impacts someone who was not born until after the full force of the hysteria ended? As soon as the public health officials egged on by the media, or the media egged on by public health officials, began their ubiquitous campaign of fear, they likely impacted the next generation in minute ways that will never, ever be fully realized. Most researchers will not even consider studying the impacts on the next generation, and, indeed, the impacts may actually be so profound that they create a great deal of noise for honest researchers.
I was born in Sept 1964 in Detroit. Everyone around me was freaked out and sad from the riots in Detroit and the death of Bobby Kennedy as well, and I am sure this affected me, can feel the heaviness of it still. I think it is why I was always a clown, a joker, to cheer them up. My job.
My brother and his wife's first kid died a week after being born due to a heart defect. His death drove my semi-stable sister-in-law over to bonkers territory and left her there. My brother changed significantly, as well, very irritabke, morose, no joy in life, to this day. They went on to have two physically healthy sons, but those two boys, who are now adults, have always been a little off. I'm sure the in utero stress was high and then the constant fear/protectionism by my sister-in-law overwhelmed those two kids. As teenagers, they'd stay with me over a weekend sometimes, and just like my childhood, I gave them only a few rules--stay together, don't shoot each other (I have guns for hunting, yes the guns are locked up, but...), and be back by dark. It was almost impossible for me to get them to leave the house, they had been so smothered. They just wanted to stay inside, they felt safer.
Now, with covid lockdowns and zoom schools, we have created an entire generation of sheep. By accident, I am sure...
I think it's a ridiculous study with a lack of understanding of emotion. A highly emotionally-reactive mother is going to stay that way (unless she gets help), and that will have an expected impact on the infant.
Their thesis is that physical changes in the fetus are the reason for emotional difficulties later on. Have they ever experienced a crazy mother? Have they ever seen the faces of babies, infants, small children and teens as the mother systematically destroys their self-worth? The problems those people go through are not caused by "stress during pregnancy".
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I was born in Sept 1964 in Detroit. Everyone around me was freaked out and sad from the riots in Detroit and the death of Bobby Kennedy as well, and I am sure this affected me, can feel the heaviness of it still. I think it is why I was always a clown, a joker, to cheer them up. My job.
My brother and his wife's first kid died a week after being born due to a heart defect. His death drove my semi-stable sister-in-law over to bonkers territory and left her there. My brother changed significantly, as well, very irritabke, morose, no joy in life, to this day. They went on to have two physically healthy sons, but those two boys, who are now adults, have always been a little off. I'm sure the in utero stress was high and then the constant fear/protectionism by my sister-in-law overwhelmed those two kids. As teenagers, they'd stay with me over a weekend sometimes, and just like my childhood, I gave them only a few rules--stay together, don't shoot each other (I have guns for hunting, yes the guns are locked up, but...), and be back by dark. It was almost impossible for me to get them to leave the house, they had been so smothered. They just wanted to stay inside, they felt safer.
Now, with covid lockdowns and zoom schools, we have created an entire generation of sheep. By accident, I am sure...
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I think it's a ridiculous study with a lack of understanding of emotion. A highly emotionally-reactive mother is going to stay that way (unless she gets help), and that will have an expected impact on the infant.
Their thesis is that physical changes in the fetus are the reason for emotional difficulties later on. Have they ever experienced a crazy mother? Have they ever seen the faces of babies, infants, small children and teens as the mother systematically destroys their self-worth? The problems those people go through are not caused by "stress during pregnancy".