Fear, change, and 2022: Why COVID-19 variants renew our anxiety of the pandemic and an unknown future

Omicron has renewed people’s fear of COVID-19, while at the same time starkly surfacing our other embedded fear … the fear of change. In looking at Google Trends, my research shows that at the end of 2021 people googled “fear of COVID” and “fear of change” at skyrocketing rates. This result projects...

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