An octogenarian in diapers is centrally planning 330M people’s health care with disastrous results…

Many citizens like it

Cheer it on

Even argue for more

Not because it is rational but because they need their tribe to form their identity.

Insecurity induced Munchausen’s.

Much talk about Ass Formation.

I prefer the moniker “Munchausen’s by internet” https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3510683/">https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/artic...

This is an interesting read on how Facebook performed a psychological experiment on 860K of its customers without an IRB.

What’s not to like about spreading massive-scale emotional contagion?

Can I get a side of spike protein with that? https://www.pnas.org/content/111/24/8788">https://www.pnas.org/content/1...

2 months later the editorial board at PNAS published this letter of concern over the questionable ethics in the Facebook study.

https://www.pnas.org/content/111/29/10779.1">https://www.pnas.org/content/1...

Of course, this was back when informed consent meant something …

Or is it when we lost the plot?

Note the emphasis on being able to opt out.

Will they ever read their own words and snap out of the octogenarian spell?