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The Real Pandemic: Mass Munchausen’s Syndrome by Proxy
American Institute for Economic Research ^ | 10/19/2020 | Craig Pirrong

Posted on 10/19/2020 6:25:22 PM PDT by Drago

It’s more than fair to say that we are experiencing a pandemic, but not the one you hear about ad nauseum. No, the pandemic is not a virus, it is a pandemic outbreak of Munchausen’s Syndrome by Proxy which focuses its obsessions on the virus.

Munchausen’s Syndrome by Proxy is a mental illness in which the sufferer fantasizes that others–usually people in their charge, such as children–are suffering from serious illness and require drastic medical intervention.

Observe what has happened over the last 7 months, and what if anything is increasing in intensity today. The obsession with Covid-19. The monomaniacal focus on “cases” (usually the result of hypersensitive tests prone to false positives), with the belief that people who test positive are sick, and huge numbers of those who become sick will die.

Given the actual experience over the last several months, these beliefs are wildly exaggerated–imaginary, fantasized illnesses, with fantasized severity, just the kind of thing that a sufferer of MSbP does....

(Excerpt) Read more at aier.org ...


TOPICS: Business/Economy; Chit/Chat; Health/Medicine; Science
KEYWORDS: covid19; lockdowns; sarscov2
Some Governors need psychological help.
1 posted on 10/19/2020 6:25:22 PM PDT by Drago
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To: Drago

“Munchausen’s Syndrome by Proxy”

Spot on.


2 posted on 10/19/2020 6:27:25 PM PDT by simpson96
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To: Drago

No. They know what they are doing. They want to know what they can do in the future by rationalizing, “if it saves just one life...” These people are simply evil.


3 posted on 10/19/2020 6:29:35 PM PDT by 17th Miss Regt
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To: Drago

This is a brilliant observation.

Great article.


4 posted on 10/19/2020 6:30:34 PM PDT by snarkytart
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To: Mia T

ping


5 posted on 10/19/2020 6:31:25 PM PDT by aposiopetic
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To: Drago

That’s a great great analogy. Actually not so much analogy, more literal along that continuum.


6 posted on 10/19/2020 6:51:04 PM PDT by tinyowl (A is A)
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To: Drago

I like this analysis.


7 posted on 10/19/2020 6:56:12 PM PDT by Rio
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To: Drago

Great article, with a definite ring of truth to it.


8 posted on 10/19/2020 7:00:59 PM PDT by Nea Wood
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To: Drago

This is exactly it. Unfortunately, we have plenty of these crazy people here, on Free Republic.


9 posted on 10/19/2020 7:11:42 PM PDT by ConservativeMind (Trump: Befuddling Democrats, Republicans, and the Media for the benefit of the US and all mankind.)
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To: Drago

I think this “pandemic” was a wing shot. Now the prey (our economy and culture) is wounded. The next will be the kill shot.


10 posted on 10/19/2020 7:13:20 PM PDT by arthurus ( cbc covfefe -)
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To: arthurus; Drago
Now the prey (our economy and culture) is wounded.

I was over at the post office the other day and was amazed at how grateful people were for the simple act of civic contact, even with the masks and the social distancing. Some were even cheerful. One wished me a good morning.

11 posted on 10/19/2020 7:15:30 PM PDT by thecodont
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To: Drago

bookmark


12 posted on 10/19/2020 9:42:52 PM PDT by GOP Poet
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13 posted on 10/20/2020 11:09:19 AM PDT by SunkenCiv (Imagine an imaginary menagerie manager imagining managing an imaginary menagerie.)
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