Cliff Notes on the News

Cliff Notes on the News

Veteran San Diego news director and reporter Cliff Albert shares his thoughts on the latest news and stories each weekday at 7:22am. Full Bio

 

Dealing With the Stress of the Pandemic

California state health officials released the weekly update Tuesday on the color-coded four-tiered system of monitoring the progress or lack of progress by each county in lowering the coronavirus case rate to determine re-openings.

San Diego will remain in the Red tier for another week at least but each week's update from the state causes local businesses along with places of worship and schools wonder if we will fall back to a more restrictive tier or move ahead to a less restrictive tier. And as each week goes by, the debate over opening too slowly or opening too quickly will go on, just as the pandemic has gone on…and on longer than most of us had hoped 7 months ago when it all began.

And so does that base level of stress that mental health professionals say that we all have in 2020.Some are stressed more than others, depending on how the pandemic and the shutdowns have affected you, but they say everyone feels that stress in some way and everyone certainly wants the feeling to go away.

And with the divisiveness nature of the politics in this election year that only adds to the stress, the end of it can’t come soon enough. But if it helps, each day we get through it, it becomes closer. Your comments are welcome at kogo.com keyword cliff notes.

READ tips from CDC for dealing with the stress.

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