Tag: Hysteria

Underneath all the dangerous and troubling beliefs about gender, climate, race and medicine lies a psychological problem. Too many people believe things that are not true. Hugh Willbourn calls it the Pandelusion.

At 5am on Thursday morning, a grainy video purporting to show a lioness in the woods near Berlin made the rounds on Twitter. In the panic that ensued, people locked themselves in their homes and events were cancelled.

It was inevitable that the WHO would up the pandemic ante regarding monkeypox, despite there being only five deaths and all of them in Africa, where the disease is endemic. But vaccines for children are on their way.

In 2019, almost 200 people contracted gonorrhoea every day. Gonorrhoea is pretty nasty, fairly infectious, widespread and on the increase. What’s so special about monkeypox, that we're making a fuss about 70 cases?

Covid hysteria continues among local councils, as health and safety inspectors tell bars and pubs they should refuse to refill glasses from taps to prevent the spread of Covid.

Long Covid joins a long list of syndromes "without clinical explanation", leading to questions of what really lies behind it and to what extent it is actually psychogenic or sociogenic.

There's a good piece in the Mail on Sunday today questioning whether it's sensible for the Government to continue updating the Covid dashboard every day, given how obsessed we've all become with the data.

There are reports that there is increasing optimism across Government that the roadmap will be able to proceed as planned, with Boris Johnson said to be unpersuaded that the data suggests a need for delay.