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Podcast: The Dollar Vigilante
Episode: The Mass Psychosis of the Covaids Cult
Description:
People with psychotic disorders have trouble staying in touch with reality and often can’t handle daily life. The most obvious symptoms are hallucinations (seeing or hearing things that aren’t real) and delusions (believing things that aren’t true, even when they get the facts).
A shared psychotic disorder is a type of mental illness in which a healthy person starts to take on the delusions of someone who has a psychotic disorder. Now mix it up with a charismatic and “divine” cult leader like Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu who, in May, suggested microchipping everyone, beginning w...