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Ever read Charles Mackay's Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds?Originally Posted by Zard
I'm hoping for a Yucatán meteor. I've seen one two many people wearing a mask and gloves while driving alone in their car. I don't want to live on this planet anymore.
Written in the 1840s and discussed financial manias including the Dutch Tulip Mania. You can apply that same crowd psychology to how Coronavirus has been dealt with. And in the postmortem, future generations will call us fools for the way Coronavirus was handled.