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Re:Cognitive deficits in people who have recovered from Covi... by simonh on Wednesday October 21, 2020 @11:48AM (#24848986)
I 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.

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Re:Cognitive deficits in people who have recovered from Covi... by bamboozled on Wednesday October 21, 2020 @12:31PM (#24849409)
You 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?

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Re:Cognitive deficits in people who have recovered from Covi... by webmaven on Wednesday October 21, 2020 @09:05PM (#24853964)
Perhaps this classic book would be of interest:

https://books.google.com/books/about/Memoirs_of_Extraordinar...

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