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Trilby 5 points ago +5 / -0

"Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds"

--An early study of crowd psychology by Scottish journalist Charles Mackay, first published in 1841 under the title Memoirs of Extraordinary Popular Delusions.

Today we have the never-ending covids and the people driven mad by them!

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GraceKrakilakin [S] 1 point ago +1 / -0

"Once you start debunking mass hysteria over outbreaks, it gets easy, because the same patterns repeat themselves.

It’s called “drama,” which is badly needed, because there appears to be nothing very special about this outbreak of the 2019-nCoV or Wuhan ¬virus. It should actually be called the DvV, or Déjà vu Virus, because we have been through these hysterias before. Over and over. Heterosexual AIDS, Ebola repeatedly, the H1N1 swine flu that was actually vastly milder than the regular flu and, especially, severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS) in 2003."