Mass Hysteria In America

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Mass hysteria Many people around the world were scared of getting sick because they were not able to identify if it was deadly or not. Outbreaks of diseases are causing mass hysteria all around the world and it’s spreading all it takes is to have one person get sick and for it to spread. When a immune system goes down and gets weak you are way more likely to catch a virus that can cause harm or even death. If you stay healthy you will have more of a chance to fight these viruses when they come around. Mass hysteria is where there is a problem and it has a huge effect on the community such as outbreaks. Mass hysteria doesn't always have to be a sickness sometimes it can just be crazy people for example In 1844 there were nuns in France who meowed like cats (Radford par. 9). The reason that this was happening was believed that religious extremists can be easily influenced to behave very strangely, which frightens uneducated people in the surrounding community, causing them to panic and become hysterical. There has been many cases like this. …show more content…

McCarthy scared America into thinking if he is President America is going to become a communist country. Well McCarthey became President. Crimes started happening such as kidnappings all around the country and more deportation than ever before the rate of missing people went sky rocketing. This was not the first scare of communist terror in America. Back in 1919 the greatest mass hysteria in the US has been generated by fear of Communism. Any sort of collective effort by people not in power. It was the first thing that has ever happened with America be scared of communism in the US government. The same thing happened with kidnapping. There was also not as much deportation but there was still a few. In this part of time chaos was spreading but luckily it turned out to be

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