Gurwinder Bhogal has raised the thought-provoking point that liberal society itself could be pathological, making people ill. He takes the case of long Covid, where while men and older people generally suffer most from the Covid infection, women are twice as likely as men to suffer from long Covid, and the most affected are transgenders. Thus, there is the paradox that Covid affects men more than women, but long Covid, which is due to the effects of a Covid infection, affects women more than men. As well, a study published in the journal Nature, reported that 4 percent of people in one large sample had not had Covid, but claimed to have long Covid. Another study found that people prone to anxiety and depression before Covid infection were 45 percent more likely to develop long Covid after infection. One explanation of this is that the symptoms of anxiety and depression overlap with long Covid. And as well, there are an enormous number of psychological pathologies that now trouble youths, with depression and anxiety being foremost.
It is suggested that one of the main causes of this crisis in pathology is the liberal woke society itself, and the fact that Leftist/liberal people tend to have higher rates of mental problems. There can be much debate about the causes of this, but my take is that a philosophy fundamentally inconsistent with the human essence, of what is natural, will in the longer run, produce dysfunction and illness. To this, the liberal Left will go relativist and deny that there is anything “natural” human nature, as that commits the conceptual sin of essentialism, that essential properties exist. But on this, the majority of the human race today, and in the past would disagree, and see their agenda as producing the illness that people are now suffering from.