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Rejoice! A mystery has been solved. We now have an explanation for long Covid, a condition afflicting many thousands of people. A super-spreader has been identified. Important as this finding is, Iâm reluctant to call for the vector to be eradicated. Why? Because itâs me.
In a presentation to the reinsurance giant Swiss Re, Michael Sharpe, a professor of psychological medicine at the University of Oxford and founder of a long Covid clinic, proposed that one of the causes of the syndrome was âsocial factorsâ. The social factor at the top of his list was an article I wrote for the Guardian, describing the suffering of patients with the condition.
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In 1961, an Italian psychiatrist called Franco Basaglia started refusing to bind patients to their beds in the Lunatic Asylum of Gorizia. He resisted the established methods of the time and began what is probably the single biggest revolution in modern mental health care that we have so far witnessed.
Basaglia had been revolted by what he observed as the conventional regime of institutional “care” in Italy at the time (not that different to what was common across Europe too): locked doors, only partly successful in muffling the weeping and screams of the patients, and institutional responses to human suffering that included physical restraint, straitjackets, ice packs, bed ties, isolation rooms, ECT, and insulin-coma shock therapies, whose
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