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Peter Webster's avatar

"should really think twice before taking the booster"

Still plenty of people out there who'd need to "think" several times and still not get it.

Still plenty of people out there who think Oswald was a crack shot.

"In reading the history of nations, we find that, like individuals, they have their whims and their peculiarities; their seasons of excitement and recklessness, when they care not what they do. We find that whole communities suddenly fix their minds upon one object, and go mad in its pursuit; that millions of people become simultaneously impressed with one delusion, and run after it, till their attention is caught by some new folly more captivating than the first. We see one nation suddenly seized, from its highest to its lowest members, with a fierce desire of military glory; another as suddenly becoming crazed upon a religious scruple; and neither of them recovering its senses until it has shed rivers of blood and sowed a harvest of groans and tears, to be reaped by its posterity.

"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, and one by one."

Mackay, 1841 - Extraordinary Popular Delusions & the Madness of Crowds

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Peter Imanuelsen's avatar

They actually have a poll on NRK, Norwegian state broadcaster asking if people wan't to take the booster after this news. Almost 50% said they would take it in that online poll. Incredible.

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Kathleen Janoski's avatar

Oswald and the "magic bullet."

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