They can ban it from social media, the AP can debunk it, but the truth will out, eventually
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In widely shared social media posts this week, efforts to combat the disease have been dismissed with just three words: "mass formation psychosis."
"I'm not a scientist but I'm pretty sure healthy people spending hours in line to get a virus test is mass formation psychosis in action," reads one tweet that was liked more than 22,000 times.
The term gained attention after it was floated by Dr. Robert Malone on "The Joe Rogan Experience" Dec. 31 podcast. Malone is a scientist who once researched mRNA technology but is now a vocal skeptic of the COVID-19 vaccines that use it.
Joel Abbot, Not the Bee:
“Here's what Dr. Malone had to say that got the ball rolling:
When you have a society that has become decoupled from each other and has free-floating anxiety in a sense that things don't make sense, we can't understand it, and then their attention gets focused by a leader or a series of events on one small point, just like hypnosis, they literally become hypnotized and can be led anywhere.
“Malone titled this phenomenon of mob thinking as "mass formation psychosis" and used the pressures of 1930s Germany as an example of how desperate and frightened people would use an issue or a person – in that case Hitler and the Nazi Party – as a lightning rod to gather around to feel secure and safe.”
Hours later, Google started hiding the phrase from search results, saying "It looks like these search results are changing quickly" when someone tried to search the term.
I can’t lay my fingers on it at this second, but I saw a headline earlier this morning showing poll results: Americans rate concerns about inflation and the economy far ahead of COVID, something like 67% to 28%. They’re figuring out they’ve been had, and maybe they’ll be angry about that.
UPDATE: Found it. 68% - 37%
