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When you scroll through social media posts, you're bound to see pictures of cute animals. People just love them and seem to want to empathize with them. In this episode of NewsMD's "Health Fusion," Viv Williams checks out a study that explores empathy and whether people prefer to relate to animals or other humans.
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Nearly 25,000 people in Canada have died from COVID-19 and more than one million people have been infected by the virus, but experts say people have lost sight of what those numbers mean: Canadian lives. With each COVID-19 infection, hospitalization and death, multiple Canadians are impacted by a wave of worry, distress and grief. But for many of those who havenât been directly impacted by the illness, keeping up with daily case counts becomes just a blip in otherwise data-filled days. âWe can't live constantly feeling that we're in the midst of a tragedy, a catastrophe, so we...
Why it is hard to mourn the vast number of Covid deaths Sara Konrath (Alliance / Alamy Stock Photo) By expanding one’s sense of compassion, we can apply it to more than one individual at a time The US recently surpassed a Covid-19 marker: over 300,000 dead. So where is the collective mourning? I’m an empathy scientist, and can report that we are not a nation of psychopaths. Cognitive biases — common errors in thinking — make it difficult to process tragedy of this scale over time, creating a sense of psychological distance between us and the Covid-19 deaths. By understanding how these...
Opinion: Why is it so hard to mourn the vast number of COVID deaths? Sara Konrath FacebookTwitterEmail 1of3 Manuel Santos mops the floor at Houston’s Compean Funeral Home, where eight of the 10 bodies being prepared for services on Aug. 5 were of COVID-19 victims.Godofredo A. Vásquez, Houston Chronicle / Staff photographerShow MoreShow Less 2of3 Pallbearers carry Trancito Rangel's casket into the back of a hearse during his funeral service at Compean Funeral Home on Tuesday, Aug. 4, 2020, in Houston. Rangel, 46, was a construction worker who died of COVID-19.Godofredo A. Vásquez, Houston ...