Tag: Mental

Lockdowns Worsened Mental Health Outcomes – HotAir

Over the past few years the term “Deaths of Despair” has become all too common.  It’s not a new term; after the fall of the Soviet Union, the already poor state of Russians’ health deteriorated and lifespans declined. The same effect has been seen in places where social cohesion and support structures deteriorated for some […]

Founding Fathers’ ‘Mental Maps’ Shaped US, Michael Barone Says

The places where they were raised and to which they traveled formed the Founding Fathers’ geographic orientation, which influenced their view of the nation and what the country could become, according to Michael Barone.  While George Washington had “a map that goes north by northwest,” Thomas Jefferson “saw the country from [the] perspective of the […]