Lockdown Anxiety Syndrome

It's a new thing. I just made it up, although I haven't done a google search.

It's there, it's real, and therefore there's a good possibility somebody, or many, noticed it before I did.

Lockdown Anxiety Syndrome, or LAS, is when you're plunged into perpetual anxiety over if and when the next restrictions are declared and what they're gonna look like.

The lockdown itself, once you're in the clutches of this syndrome, comes to be experienced as relief from the anxiety. 

You see it all around you. 

It's the reason you see folks walking down the street in masks when their town hasn't had a covid death in six months. They truly believe the reason their town hasn't had a covid death in six months is because they're walking around in a mask.

They're afraid to take it off lest they inadvertently kill someone.

That's a terrible burden on a populace that was already suffering unprecedented levels of mental illness before all this started.