This interactive map from a team at Johns Hopkins Center for Systems Science and Engineering (CSSE) also shows up-to-date progress on the virus with real statistics. To find relevant information on COVID-19 and stop the spread of misinformation, you can trust sources such as WHO (World Health Organization) or the CDC (Center for Disease Control). The CDC has explained that, as with most other viruses, the elderly and those with underlying health conditions or people who have impaired immune systems are at the highest risk. Nancy Messonnier, director of CDC’s National Center for Immunization and Respiratory Diseases, the trajectory of COVID-19 suggests people will be exposed to this virus over the next two years, however, most will not develop serious illness.
Staying calm and logical during a pandemic can help prevent mass hysteria, panic-purchasing, and product shortages, and can ultimately help curb the spread of infection.įind real facts from trusted sources – don’t share information you haven’t fact-checked.Īccording to Dr.
Photo by tockfotografie on Shutterstock Staying calm and logical during the COVID-19 pandemic Stay calm, be vigilant, take care and most importantly, stay logical. Mass hysteria is quite similar to the Mandela Effect in that you unwittingly trick your brain into believing something that isn’t real…however, in the case of mass hysteria surrounding very real infections or viruses, we can convince ourselves we have the symptoms of the disease or that the disease is more deadly than it really is.
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The internet was ablaze with people who claimed to remember seeing clips of his funeral on TV or news articles about the man’s death, even though none were ever found (because he hadn’t in fact passed away). Many people at this time believed that Nelson Mandela died in prison during the 1980s, when in reality, he was actually freed from prison in 1990 and didn’t die until a few years after the Mandela rumors, in 2013. The Mandela Effect is a collective misremembering of common events or details named after the 2010 notion and rumors that spread when the online masses falsely remembered Nelson Mandela to have died. The mind is a powerful and complex thing – it can play tricks on you.Ĭonsider the Mandela Effect, for example. This can anything – a news story about contaminated water supply or a virus that’s going around (similar to what we’re experiencing in 2020 with COVID-19.) In many cases, hysteria is caused by some kind of incident. The Federal Commission Head (a Slovenian doctor by the name of Anton Dolenc) agreed, declaring the incident having nothing to do with poisoning, but instead calling it a “psychological reaction”, as this was the only explanation for what happened. The Chief of Epidemiology of Kosovo Jusuf Dedushaj explained in a letter that he wrote later that year that the disease had psychic causes. The samples did not appear to contain any poison. The toxicological reports (analysis of blood and urine of the affected patients) were unclear. The Faculty of Medicine at the University of Pristina organized a group of doctors to announce it was epidemic disease, but they could not give any other information, simply because they didn’t have it. During this time, a mass panic arose that spread throughout the nation. Soon, it passed to many other schools, some even in cities as far away as one or two hours by car. The first area to be affected was a high school in Podujevo, only a few students at first – but in the days passing this number grew exponentially. Their eyes were inflamed and faces flush. More than 4000 young students became ill with symptoms such as dizziness, fainting, and even convulsions. Eventually, they concluded that the “illness” was really a case of hysterical contagion and that the symptoms were caused by the anxiety that surrounded the factory over potentially contracting this virus that didn’t really exist. However, several doctors and health care experts from the U.S Public Health Service Communicable Disease Center could find no evidence to support this theory.
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