The whole point of the mass hysteria hypothesis is that it dispenses with conspiracy theories, and two reasons folks like conspiracy theories
The conspiracy theorist looks for centralized conspiracies to explain societal level events.
But for Covid it was abundantly clear that vast swathes of the public at all levels aggressively pushed for the draconian interventions (such as wearing masks in their cars alone), making it difficult for a conspiracy theorist.
How could THAT many people be in on it? Are they ALL being paid?!
Meanwhile, those familiar with emergent phenomena like Matt Desmet and me provided the general kind of explanation for how the whole world seemingly had gone mad all at once: collective hysteria.
See my Playlist of Moment videos on related issues, https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLHmody2xNMCv0oePQr3w6WM5vgiZCHBgN
But, rather than taking it as an alternative hypothesis for explaining what happened, the conspiracy theorists jumped on this and said, “Aha! The conspiring puppeteers INITIATED the collective hysteria! It was just one step in their tortuously complicated, multi-decade plan to enslave us!”
There are at least two cognitive mistakes that I believe lead to the human tendency toward conspiracy theory (which are NOT merely theories about conspiracies, see the first video link below).
(I) The inability to appreciate both
— (a) the difficulty (impossibility!) of reliably initiating collective hysteria, and
— (b) how the viral spread of ideas through communities — and the subsequent righteous narrative that can emerge — can have all the appearances of there having been a designer that coordinated the events.
Here are five Moments on these issues:
~ The Covid Conspiracy Moment
~ Mass hysterias are avalanches across minds
~ Cooties drives their crazy beliefs
~ Take over governments? Maybe. Create a new religion? No.
~ Seeming coordination is the hallmark of collective hysteria
(II) A mistaken notion of culpability that says that those in a collective hysteria must therefore not be culpable.
And here are five Moments on this:
~ If they’re in a mass hysteria, does that mean they’re not culpable?
~ The greatest evils come from within the hysteria
~ Culpability doesn’t require they started the collective hysteria
~ Your parents taught you that mass hysteria doesn’t excuse you
~ Why the sheep are culpable
Every example you give except the 2018 vaccine thing is EXACTLY what is expected from collective hysteria. And is ONLY possible via collective hysteria.
On beating a dead horse, this IS the most important issue. My research at FreeX IS this. You misunderstand this, and you misunderstand all genocides, democides, and mass movements generally.
You seem to like to beat this dead horse. Everyone would love to believe that this was just mass hysteria but it wasn't. Unfortunately, mass hysteria just doesn't align with the facts. The media was coordinated to have one voice. Look at their total repudiation of hydroxychloroquine even though there was a paper in 2005 that showed chloroquine to be a potent inhibitor of SARS-1. No outlet pointed to that paper nor did Dr. Fauci or the experts who should have been well aware. Hysteria was also instilled into the population by the fear campaign launched by the media.
Then there were all the incentives such as hospitals getting money to put people on ventilators. These policies didn't just arise from mass hysteria. Also note that if it were merely hysteria you would see messaging that might actually be of use such as government often trying to calm the population down. When anyone tried to do so such as the GBD, they and their ideas were smeared. Also the campaign of fear used half-truths and lies such as pretending everyone was equally at risk which isn't explained by hysteria. Also note the fear campaign tried to create a sense of solidarity such as messaging that we're all in this together which actually isn't from a source of hysteria. Also, vaccine passports were in the works since at least 2018 with even a timeline of rollout for the EU which again would not be explained by mass hysteria.
Sorry but mass hysteria only gets you so far. Think of Jonestown. Many were true believers but there were some that would never take their own lives for their cult and so a conspiracy was in place to have them killed.