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| − | |description=An explanation promoted in 2021 of public reactions to the [[COVID-19/Response]]
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| − | '''Mass formation psychosis''' is a concept used to explain otherwise difficult to explain phenomena around public acceptance of policies taken in the name of [[COVID-19]].
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| − | ==Summary==
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| − | * [[Free floating anxiety]]
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| − | ==Popularisation==
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| − | In 2020 [[Matthias Desmet]] used the concept of mass formation to help understand the public response to the authoritarian measures introduced worldwide during the [[COVID-19]] event.
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| − | It was widely popularised in December 2021.<ref>https://rwmalonemd.substack.com/p/mass-formation-psychosis</ref>
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| − | ==Cover-up==
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| − | {{CCM}} acted in lockstep in early January 2021 to deny that the concept had any validity:
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| − | [[Noah Berlatsky]] ''[[The Independent]]'' wrote that "the “mass formation psychosis” argument, like the anti-vaccine argument, is complete nonsense."<ref>https://www.independent.co.uk/voices/joe-rogan-mass-formation-psychosis-covid-b1990337.html</ref>
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| − | ==References==
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