This happened in the early days of social media. Search Le Roy New York. Head cheerleader of a high school spontaneously develops turrets. Pretty soon half the girls in the school have it. A remarkable case study in mass psychogenic illness.
https://twitter.com/WSJ/status/1449499150417022982
I remember these girls being interviewed by Dr Drew on CNN, spasming and twitching. All very funny in hindsight. After the Dr. Drew interview, cases at the school doubled. They blamed it on some mystery abuser, toxins in the water, maybe a bad batch of HPV vax
At some point the school principle banned phones from school. Parents were encouraged to keep their kids off of social media. By spring, cases plateaus and by graduation every last one of these girls was cured.
They just needed to log off. There’s a very important lesson there.
They just needed to log off. There’s a very important lesson there.
An addendum to this is that these cases of mass psychogenic illness are always almost exclusively female. Which dovetails with my long held position that all of what ails us in the Current Year are female social pathologies at scale…
Rabid social status games ruled by threats of exclusion, gossip, rumor and moral blackmail, with the occasional MPI outbreak
They said the future would be female and they were right.
They said the future would be female and they were right.
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