I'm so glad to see someone else saying this. It absolutely will be remembered as a Mass Hysteria. It also has overtones of the worst that state religion has to

I'm so glad to see someone else saying this. It absolutely will be remembered as a Mass Hysteria. It also has overtones of the worst that state religion has to offer. Ironically, W. Bernstein published a book in 2021 called "The Delusions of Crowds: Why People Go Mad in Groups" that completely ignored our response to Covid (except to toe the party line). Even more ironically, Bernstein had harsh words for Mackay, author of the 1841 classic "Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds", in which Mackay ignored the ongoing British Railway Bubble.