In EVERY case the disease epidemic was accompanies by a FEAR epidemic; and in every case the fear epidemic was the one which proved the more destructive.
The GenZ maskerbators don't have enough life experience to know mass manipulation, much less to resist it.
Exactly. Fear is the media’s fuel. Both left and right
Follow the money? Many in the media want to be a Bernstein& Woodward without any effort.
Many want their non-profit to get that new government grant and the establishment has all the grants for old diseases tied up...and the old money is small compared to money for a NEW disease.
Government bureaucrats are always looking for ways to grow their budget. That is their #1 goal.
At least two more examples can be added, although the pool of victims is rather specific: Hantavirus and Transexuality.
Yep. COVID wasn’t the first end of the world I’ve seen, and probably won’t be the last.
I still remember how they worked up the VEE (Venezuelan equine encephalitis) fear in the early 1960s and the Swine Flu fear in the 1970s. More people dropped dead standing in line for the shot than actually contracted the flu.
Kinda related (including meowing nuns in the Middle Ages): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_mass_hysteria_cases
My absolute favorite: people who thought they were made of glass: https://health.howstuffworks.com/mental-health/mental-disorders/ridiculous-history-when-people-thought-they-were-made-glass.htm
Almost makes total goofs like Dylan Mulvaney seem less insane.
I lived though the pyramid scream of the late 70s
I had a flu, either in the late 70s or early 80s. I was in bed for a week, alternating between sweats and chills. I remember the sheets were soaked.
The papers said that those born earlier were not at risk, because it had gone around before. My wife, who is 14 months older, was unaffected.
I seem to remember it being called either the Russian or Moscow flu. Looking it up now on the internet, there seems to be no record.
One possible upside of contracting the flu is that it seems to be hell on cancer cells. I suppose any fever would do.