Today I saw a new poll from the US on attitudes towards vaccination and how worried people are about Covid-19. According to the poll an astounding 22 percent of parents are very worried their child will become seriously ill with Covid-19, and another 25 percent are somewhat worried, 47 percent in all. And 42 percent of parents of 12-17 year-old children either have or plan to inject them with the so-called “bivalent booster” (yes, the one tested on eight mice).

In other words, more than a fifth of American adults believe a disease with an infection fatality rate that is probably around one in half a million for children and a truly minuscule hospitalisation rate, is very likely to severely harm their child.

In a radio interview recently I was asked why I thought the reaction to the coronavirus had been so extreme. I said my best guess was mass panic as per Mattias Desmet’s hypothesis. Understandably, the reporter then asked how likely it really was that more or less the whole world would succumb to such extreme mass-formation; to her it didn’t sound credible. And it isn’t. I must admit this is a question I keep asking myself also, again and again.

However, in the end my conclusion is always the same: I still don’t have a better explanation, and a poll result such as the one I’m quoting here supports it; there is something seriously wrong when a fifth of the American population believes something as outrageously erroneous as this. As strange as this may seem, what else could explain such utter disconnect from reality?