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
Three years since I posted this, pinned ever since. Over time, more and more came to realize its point, and its truth.
“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
100%... that's the key lesson... amazing how the herd went mad