Table 4 Purpose: themes and sample quotes
Theme | Sample quotes (source country) |
|---|---|
4.1 Moving from pandemic to syndemic | The pandemic, if it is even imaginable, came to take a backrow seat to yet another crisis, a racial crisis long developing in this country. Four hundred years and more in the making. (USA) |
4.2. From lamenting to embracing | People panicked. Stores were emptied out, shelves left bare –the reality once again of the social disparities were evident– those who could afford it stocked up for a war, but those who relied on social grants and a weekly wage could do nothing but look on helplessly as they were unable to buy anything, let alone more than usual to stockpile. (South Africa) Psychiatrists, like all physicians, need more than ever to speak out to the public to amplify good science while refuting nonsense. If we don’t, there are countless others, most of whom have never done science or actually cared for a patient, who are more than happy to fill the void. (USA) |
4.3 Planning toward a better tomorrow | Following each forest fire, new green shoots emerge. COVID-19 has had the same effect, by providing us new opportunities that were not available to us before. (Singapore) |