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The moral of coronavirus19 will be that social contagion via social networks is more dangerous than biological contagion

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The moral of coronavirus19 will be that social contagion via social networks is more dangerous than biological contagion

Three years on

Mark Changizi
Mar 17, 2023
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Three years since I posted this, pinned ever since. Over time, more and more came to realize its point, and its truth.

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The moral of coronavirus19 will be that social contagion via social networks is more dangerous than biological contagion.
7:21 PM ∙ Mar 17, 2020
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Paramaniac
Mar 22Liked by Mark Changizi

“Men, it has been well said, think in herds; it will be seen that they go mad in herds, while they only recover their senses slowly, one by one"

Charles Mackay

Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds, 1841

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Matt P
Mar 17

100%... that's the key lesson... amazing how the herd went mad

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