Someone wrote in [personal profile] ecosophia 2022-11-07 12:06 am (UTC)

Re: Disease trends

"It's strange this slow moving fiasco and people getting their sanity back one by one like Ben Shapiro this week."

Charles Mackay 1812–89
Men, it has been well said, think in herds; it will be seen that they go mad in herds, while they only recover their senses slowly, and one by one.

What we are seeing is entirely normal. The question that remains is was it a simple case of mass hysteria, or was it a cynical trial run to see how much totalitarianism the public would accept? And this determination is confused by the mass media being financially rewarded for spreading panic.

I live outside the range of broadcast TV, and outside of the reach of cable as well. It's satellite or nothing, and I've chosen nothing. I seem to be less panicked than my TV watching friends.

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