Hi everybody, Cheryl Atkinson here.

Welcome to another edition of Full Measure After Hours.

Today, How America Fell Victim to a Mass Delusional Psychosis.

We are still learning lessons from our COVID mistakes, and we likely will be for some time to come.

Today, a conversation with clinical psychiatrist Dr. Mark McDonald,

whose author of United States of Fear, How America Fell Victim to a Mass Delusional Psychosis.

Thank you. how America fell victim to a mass delusional psychosis. How did America fall victim to a mass delusional psychosis?

The weaponization of fear.

Americans have become compliant.

They've become adept at receiving signals to be afraid.

And when groups and individuals consolidate their power and activate a national emergency

and then offer a solution which always involves giving up some form of freedom, Americans comply.

And they will comply as long as they stay afraid.

And we can see that that fear has not left.

Walk around the streets of any city in urban America, including Boston, Massachusetts, or Los Angeles, California,

and you'll see approximately 20% of the people walking outside

with masks on their faces in 2024, almost 2025. That speaks a lot about the state of fear in

America today, and I don't think it's changed much since 2020. Have you sensed or theorized who is behind that?

Who was driving the fear?

Was it a coordinated effort or something that just happened?

I think what happened was a crime of opportunity.

I'm not a conspiracy theorist in the sense that there's a group of people in hood

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