Gabrielle Bauer on Mob Psychology During the COVID-19 Pandemic — Part 1

In her latest book, health writer Gabrielle Bauer interviewed doctors, psychologists, and economists who defended freedom during the COVID-19 pandemic.

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People are vulnerable to mob psychology when society is in a state of atomization, something observed during the COVID-19 pandemic, according to Gabrielle Bauer, a longtime health and medical writer and author of “Blindsight Is 2020: Reflections on Covid Policies From Dissident Scientists, Philosophers, Artists, and More.”

“People are not really connected, there isn’t really a strong sense of communion, there is a lot of stress, a lot of isolation. And this makes people vulnerable to these forces, and then they start connecting to the authorities, to this collective, and that is one step toward the establishment of totalitarianism,” Ms. Bauer said in an interview for EpochTV’s “American Thought Leaders.”