Mental health involves healthy relationships. Limiting social contacts may slow the transmission of a disease but it still causes great societal harm.
This is an important lesson we should all understand and appreciate now that the lockdown days of the first pandemic are in the rear view mirror.
I understand the desire to believe that masks protect us but the evidence is clear, they don’t stop the transmission of respiratory illness — the colds and flus we have experienced our entire lives. It isn’t that viruses don’t cause harm, they can, but attempting to “cure” them through pharmaceutical promises that lack truthful informed consent should be respectfully declined. Instead, get out in the sun, take your vitamins, and stay home if you don’t feel well — all the things our mothers advised when we were kids.
Finally, we need a healthy dose of human contact daily with those we care about and who care about us. It’s more important in my book than attempting to avoid illness at all costs.
Very well put.