pandemic fatigue
Prolonged outbreak burnout
Pandemic fatigue is the exhaustion and diminished vigilance that sets in during a prolonged public health crisis.
After months or years of restrictions, distancing, and heightened anxiety, people grow weary of precautions and may abandon them despite ongoing risk: Pandemic fatigue made it harder to enforce mask mandates in the second year.
The term gained currency during the COVID-19 era.
- burnoutChronic occupational depletion
- exhaustionState of utter depletion
- emotional exhaustionDepleted capacity for feeling
- lockdownEnforced restriction on movement
- quarantineIsolation preventing disease transmission
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- pandemiclockdowns, COVID-19, outbreak, COVID, SARS-CoV
- fatigueexhaustion, tiredness, weariness, lethargy, exhausted
- Modern AilmentsADHD, anxiety disorder, fibromyalgia, insomnia, depression
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