Since the first months of 2020, the whole world has been faced with a phenomenon that directly shapes daily life, social balance, socio-political attitudes and production processes.
It was not by chance that the term "dictatorship of bacteria" was used to describe the process in the early days. Even those who emphasize that the post-modern period includes "fluidity" and "fuzzyness" seem helpless in the face of such rapid reversal of habits and acceptance of conditions.
According to current data, vaccination activities have started in at least 197 countries. Aside from the concerns and doubts about the epidemic, the preference of positioning against the current in the macro plan comes to the fore.
This situation is not really surprising, because the attitude of state administrations towards the epidemic directly affects the approaches of their citizens.
It is often stated that as vaccination rates increase, death rates will decrease and the pandemic will end. If we leave what this means to the evaluation of experts, it turns out that the main element that interests us is to make post-pandemic readings.
For example, will we continue from where we left off when the pandemic is over? Will we go back to our old habits and structures, or will the normal become the new one!
In order to answer these questions, it is necessary to talk about the state of the subject, that is, the state of the human being.
Because, due to what happened during the epidemic, there is almost a consensus that all humanity should be subjected to a real rehabilitation after the epidemic.
As a matter of fact, it is obvious that providing psychological support to those who are exposed to the process after important mass events has very important benefits. There may be examples such as the 17 August 1999 earthquake, but I would like to give another example on the subject that I am also in.
A curfew was declared for 8 months within the scope of the terror-induced trench operations in Şırnak between 2016 and 2017.
During this period, people who tried to hold on to life in other cities and villages far from their homes, homeland, jobs, friends and relatives, when they returned to the city after the ban, they witnessed that the houses they built with great effort, the bakery shops, the streets they walked on, the streets they played games in their childhood were destroyed.
I do not use these expressions for the purpose of agitation or storytelling, I write them as a person who has witnessed that environment.
Many of their homes were destroyed or unusable. Since life went on, they had to adapt quickly to the conditions, and that's what they did.
When I interviewed a psychiatrist working in the hospital at that time, when I said that this was not very normal, that people could not experience the "mourning" period that they should go through, and that a rehabilitation program should be followed, I said, "You are very right, everyone including me needs to be rehabilitated urgently, it's a simple thing. There was a process reminiscent of war psychology and we act as if we had experienced something routine.”
Not as a scientific data, of course, but the increase in suicide cases in the post-ban period also supported me towards this thought.
Since mental problems are not easily detectable, they are often pushed into the background in such cases. However, there are mental problems caused by the pandemic, which should never be ignored, in line with the saying "it is not work that kills, but worry".
This fact should be taken into account in all steps taken regarding the epidemic, from economic support packages announced to the public to suicide news.
It is obvious that no serious process has been carried out in this regard so far. It should be noted that a process management is followed that leads people to horror, fear and anxiety.
Moreover, this situation supports the claims that "pushing people into the tunnel of fear" is aimed in the global management of the epidemic.
Actually, in today's article, I was planning to make some evaluations about the future of politics by entering "The Theory of Horror Management", but it's been a week.
Hoping to continue, if possible...