We Are in This Together: Quantifying Community Subjective Wellbeing and Resilience. (arXiv:2208.10766v1 [cs.SI])

The COVID-19 pandemic disrupted everyone's life across the world. In this
work, we characterize the subjective wellbeing patterns of 112 cities across
the United States during the pandemic prior to vaccine availability, as
exhibited in subreddits corresponding to the cities. We quantify subjective
wellbeing using positive and negative affect. We then measure the pandemic's
impact by comparing a community's observed wellbeing with its expected
wellbeing, as forecasted by time series models derived from prior to the
pandemic.We show that general …

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