NEW YORK LETTER
We tracked down Monica Lewinsky, the White House intern who hit the headlines for having sex with President Bill Clinton in the late 1990s. Now 47, she writes in Vanity Fair, and the title of his article from 1er October seems titillating. “We forgot the word in F in the pandemic”. F like Fuck or “kiss,” the saucy reader immediately thinks. No, trap: F like Feeling, “Feel”.
The columnist of Vanity Fair writes an excellent article on the psychological ravages of the Covid-19 crisis. She begins by describing a personal experience, when she was in Los Angeles in 2011, returning from a concert, calling a friend from her car. Suddenly, a car pulls up, several men come out, one threatens her with a pistol, the second tries to open the door – locked – of his car. “I feel absolute terror”, describes Monica Lewinsky, who crushes the accelerator and runs away, tires screeching. “I accelerate in horror. “
“We have sequestered ourselves”
In the time that follows, Monica Lewinsky is terrified by the slightest noise in her home, suffers from depression and needs additional therapy to overcome her trauma. This is where the comparison with the Covid comes from: “ The gun incident has become a metaphor for how we have all felt this year, since we were threatened with death from the coronavirus. “ But once you’ve escaped death, you have to get over it. “We sequestered ourselves for months. We told our kids that they can’t play with their friends or embrace their acquaintances… What is the mental cost of the anxieties right now? “, she asks herself. The United States was entitled to the advice of a chief medical officer, the virologist Anthony Fauci, often contradicted by Donald Trump. but they did not have the recommendations of an expert in mental health, laments Lewinsky, an expert on what one feels, the “Feel”.
The former intern describes the surge in alcohol consumption, Americans’ thoughts of suicide on the rise according to surveys, the rise in sales of anxiolytics and quotes a United Nations report: “The psychological malaise in the populations is very widespread. A long-term surge in the number and severity of mental problems is likely. “ Except that no one has been named responsible for the subject, neither in the United States nor elsewhere in the world. Only Australia’s chief medical officer would treat this facet of the pandemic properly, says Mme Lewinsky.
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