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Opinion | Any shade of corona anxiety... so long as it is sane

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Rescuing a daughter from covid’s reach in the US, keeping track of her campus cases, jumping at the slightest sound of her throat and glaring at a cup that made her splutter are but mild symptoms of this emergent anxiety One of the irrational fears that turned rational at the stroke of the lockdown hour, it struck me, was a novelty of pop psychology till just the other day: nomophobia.

It’s a fancy term for the lurking fear of a hand getting lopped off, as a phone going on the blink might feel like. Left helpless.

That a no-mobile crisis could be even worse than no mobility per se was far from obvious till this tiny bug turned up to encage us in corona anxiety.

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