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What happens when Govt stresses a message of VIRUS DANGER DANGER DANGER for months on end?

In Portugal, a fictional TV teen drama disease outbreak had 300 students experiencing rashes, dizziness and difficulty breathing.

Medical authorities concluded it was hysteria
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The 1995 terrorist attacks using sarin nerve gas in the Tokyo subway triggered a series of hysterical episodes involving harmless odours

A family walked out in disgust when the doctor broke good news that the degenerative symptoms were not fatal but psychological in origin
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No one wants to admit their problems are psychological - not least a whole society

But we are at a crossroads - the primary agent of psychogenic illness may be Govt sponsored messaging

What happens when Governments play with fire? https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/how-soap-opera-virus-felled-hundreds-students-portugal-180962383/
How a Soap Opera Virus Felled Hundreds of Students in Portugal

The “Strawberries With Sugar” outbreak is just one example of mass hysteria, which goes back centuries

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/how-soap-opera-virus-felled-hundreds-students-portugal-180962383/
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