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This seems like a large sample size, with the administration being a test. With the pure psychological and fear impacts of this on the world, not the mention th
by djsumdog 6y ago
This seems like a large sample size, with the administration being a test. With the pure psychological and fear impacts of this on the world, not the mention the vast majority of people with severe cases being over 55 (people older than 65 have the potential for complications from ANY infection, viral or bacterial) ... I don't think there's a way to accurately account for the placebo/nocebo/mass-hysteria effects of this.
None of these studies seem to be taking into account the psychological contagion that's spreading on an international scale. I really think 10 years from now, we'll be looking at 2020 as the first example of global moral panic and mass hysteria.
- ljw1001 6y agoWhile opinions differ on appropriate action, with some arguing for strong policy responses, there’s very little evidence of anything that merits the word “hysteria”
- djsumdog 6y agoReally? A woman being choked in Melbourne for not wearing a mask? A man getting pepper sprayed by police at a Tim Horton's in Canada for not wearing a mask? A man getting shot in Canada, after he left the store, by police, for not wearing a mask? The Premier of Victoria locking down the entire state with tiny measures of case numbers? Continually changing news stories and narratives? The demonetization of any challenge to the State narrative as conspiracy theory. Doctors like the ones in Bakersfield or the silence of Scott Atlas's social media. Sweden, and everything that entails (what you think, what the media tells us, what's actually true). We have never seen this type of response to a virus before in all of human history. The culmination of both fast travel technology with media technology is causing a massive diaspora of conflicting facts and information with media and corporate giants attempting to control every aspect of what's true and what is not. This is absolutely mass hysteria.
- CyberDildonics 6y agoThere are over 6 billion people on earth. This sounds like extremely isolated hysteria.
- ljw1001 6y agoThis is nonsense. More people get hurt in the US (and elsewhere) after a sports team loses a championship game than have been hurt because of Covid hysteria. This is like month 8 and you have one shooting. On the other hand, more than 1/4 million dead in the US by year end from Covid.
- simonh 6y agoI don't even know what mass hysteria is supposed to mean. It conjures visions of people running screaming in the street tearing their clothes off. I suppose the nearest we've had so far were panics such as mass buying of toilet paper and cleaning products. We've had serious problems with mass delusions such as ant-vax, chem trails and pizza-gate propagating through social media since long before Covid. Of course now there are similar memetic contagions that are Covid related such as the 5G conspiracy theories, but crazies have got to crazy. If they weren't crazying about this they'd be crazying about something else.
- bamboozled 6y agoYou don't think there is any merit to what the parent is saying though? It's the first time in history we've had unregulated, largely uncensored social media involved with a _real pandemic_. People can make up anything about this situation and spread it to whoever at light speed. Maybe it's you who are delusional if you think there hasn't been any hysteria lately, especially around Covid19?
- webmaven 6y agoPerhaps this classic book would be of interest: https://books.google.com/books/about/Memoirs_of_Extraordinary_Popular_Delusio.html https://books.google.com/books/about/Memoirs_of_Extraordinar...