Throughout the entire pandemic, it was obvious that many Americans were driven to some degree of mental instability by COVID-19. One only has to watch Joy Reid’s crackpot show to understand that the left’s fear-mongering is causing triple-vaxxed (or formerly double-vaxxed) and masked individuals to experience completely undue levels of hysteria.
A few weeks ago, after news of emergency rooms being clogged up with fully vaxxed individuals seeking COVID tests broke, I wrote a piece entitled “The Collective Chickens of the Collective Psychosis of COVID Hysteria Come Home to Roost.” A little over a week later, Dr. Robert Malone did his landmark interview with Joe Rogan, popularizing the phrase “mass formation psychosis” among those looking for a way to express the left’s inability to think rationally when it comes to the coronavirus.
Here was Malone’s description.
When you have a society that has become decoupled from each other, and has free-floating anxiety, and a sense that things don’t make sense, we can’t understand it. Their attention becomes focused on a small topic by someone or a group of people, much like in hypnosis. The effect is that they become “hypnotized” and are able to be lead anywhere.
One aspect of [the] phenomenon is the people that they identify as their leaders — the ones typically that come in and say ‘You have this pain and I can solve it for you. Only me and you. Then they will follow that person through hell — it doesn’t matter whether they lie to them or whatever.
That sounds pretty spot-on to me, and it’s so obvious that it’s happening right now that it seems silly to even dispute it. However, the Associated Press decided to assume the role of obtuseness by claiming that COVID fanatics have mass formation psychosis.
“Mass formation psychosis,” an unfounded theory spreading online, suggests millions of people have been “hypnotized” into believing mainstream ideas to combat COVID-19. The theory is refuted by psychologists. Learn the facts @AP. https://t.co/TT61pPFtwL
— AP Fact Check (@APFactCheck) January 8, 2022
The term gained attention after it was floated by Dr. Robert Malone on “The Joe Rogan Experience” Dec. 31 podcast. Malone was a scientist, who used mRNA technology to research it. However, he is now vocally against the COVID-19 vaccinations.
Psychology experts claim that Malone’s theory isn’t supported by any evidence and is very similar to other theories long discredited. Here’s a look at the facts…
…Psychology experts say there is no support for the “psychosis” theory described by Malone.
“To my knowledge, there’s no evidence whatsoever for this concept,” said Jay Van Bavel, an assistant professor of psychology and neural science at New York University who recently co-authored a book on group identities. Van Bavel said he had never encountered the phrase “mass formation psychosis” in his years of research, nor could he find it in any peer-reviewed literature.
The AP couldn’t be missing the point harder if they tried. The idea behind mass formation psychosis is not that people are literally hypnotized, i.e., as you’d see in the movies where someone crows like a rooster and stops smoking. Rather, it’s a way to express the collective irrationality being shown by millions of people who will literally do anything to try to “stop the spread,” no matter how ineffective the measures being promoted are.
For example, despite all the data showing that the vaccines don’t work to stop the spread of COVID-19, people still push policies like vaccine passports and vaccine mandates as not only physically necessary but morally necessary as well. Those who hang on Dr. Anthony Fauci’s every word do so under the delusion that whatever the “experts” say must be abided by in order to avoid catastrophe. That’s how you end up with a Houston area teacher locking a child in the trunk of a car because he supposedly needed to be “quarantined.”
Those types of irrationalities are what drive the idea of a widespread psychosis formulated by the largely baseless fear-mongering of the expert class — and that’s what makes the AP’s “fact-check” so ironic.
They say that it is possible to find the cure. aren’tMillions of Americans accept the dictates of an extremely small group of highly credentialed people. Yet, they attempt to show that they are right by demanding you follow their lead. I couldn’t think of a better way to not prove their point than that.
People can argue over semantics in clinical diagnosis. It is clear that Americans and other people worldwide are not able to do rational risk assessments due to the intransigence of their leaders. The greed for power has taken over and all are now afraid of being held responsible for their failures. So the AP can call that phenomenon whatever they’d like, but it’s absolutely a real problem, and it’s one that a nation like the United States is going to have to figure out a way to solve before our society dives off the cliff.
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