Hysteria

This is a very good article about mass psychogenic illnesses and how online feeds them through a kind of parasocial validation.

Just past the strictly medical analysis, it’s easy to see how this exact dynamic drives most Current Year ideological hysterics https://t.co/nVohGz7nOh

— Lomez (@L0m3z) December 16, 2022

An important feature of these cases is that they primarily affect women. I have written before about the case of Le Roy, NY, which is just one ex but illustrative of the trend.

~10 years ago the cheerleader at a HS in Le Roy starts experiencing sudden onset Tourette’s…

— Lomez (@L0m3z) December 16, 2022

Pretty soon some more cheerleaders get it. Is it some environmental pathogen? Is it a bad batch of hpv vaccine? No one can say. Then the girls are invited on Dr. Drew show on HLN. Twitching. Spasming. After the show airs, cases at the school double. Then…