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“When I begin my work with patients, I remind them that everything starts with a shared commitment to reality. The goal of therapy is not to feel good—it is to live in reality, regardless of how it may feel. Over time, patients can modulate the way they feel, but they can never modify reality itself, as it exists independent of them. Attempting to redefine reality is delusional and serves only as a defense against emotional discomfort. For”
― Mark McDonald, United States of Fear: How America Fell Victim to a Mass Delusional Psychosis

“not a medical crisis, but a crisis of misinformation, censorship, and government overreach.”
― Mark McDonald, United States of Fear: How America Fell Victim to a Mass Delusional Psychosis

“The 1970s brought fears of environmental collapse and even the extinction of the human race. Since the first Earth Day on April 22, 1970, this sense of impending doom has only gotten worse, with a series of panics about overpopulation, ozone depletion, peak oil, global warming, extreme weather events, deforestation, nuclear energy disasters, mass species extinction, poisoning by agricultural chemicals, electromagnetic and cell phone radiation, and rising sea levels that are predicted to drown American cities.”
― Mark McDonald, United States of Fear: How America Fell Victim to a Mass Delusional Psychosis

“Even with corrupt data collection, it became harder and harder to find enough dead people to fuel the ongoing fear pandemic, so the media pivoted and replaced daily death and hospitalization trackers with a new statistical category: “Case Numbers.”
― Mark McDonald, United States of Fear: How America Fell Victim to a Mass Delusional Psychosis

“As I began posting more frequently, I saw a curious trend develop: Nearly all my detractors were young, single, white, self-described Democrat women passionate about cats and dogs. Many supported BLM, transgender activism, and other Left-wing causes. All of them hated Donald Trump and equated him with pure evil. They also appeared to be largely unemployed, with considerable free time. Although”
― Mark McDonald, United States of Fear: How America Fell Victim to a Mass Delusional Psychosis

“Masks have served no one but those in positions of authority and power. They have only made Americans sicker—physically, emotionally, and psychologically.”
― Mark McDonald, United States of Fear: How America Fell Victim to a Mass Delusional Psychosis

“Karens became the psychotic enforcers of the arbitrary rules imposed on the population by unelected bureaucrats and unaccountable politicians.”
― Mark McDonald, United States of Fear: How America Fell Victim to a Mass Delusional Psychosis

“Attending an American university today is nothing more than a four-year pampering at an overpriced country club, reinforcing youthful narcissism and breeding disgust toward truth, tradition, and American values in general.”
― Mark McDonald, United States of Fear: How America Fell Victim to a Mass Delusional Psychosis

“Many people now appear to be addicted to the daily drama of fear and the power it confers on hysterical and angry individuals, irresponsible media outlets, and overweening public officials.”
― Mark McDonald, United States of Fear: How America Fell Victim to a Mass Delusional Psychosis

“Later that year, billionaire entrepreneur Elon Musk developed cold symptoms and decided to take four tests—same day, same test, same nurse. Two came back positive, and two came back negative. “Something extremely bogus is going on,” he said. Musk was right. It would take the CDC until July 21, 2021 to acknowledge that the PCR test is so faulty as to be clinically useless, revoking its emergency use authorization…but prospectively, and not until December 31.”
― Mark McDonald, United States of Fear: How America Fell Victim to a Mass Delusional Psychosis

“The latter was an especially dangerous position to take, as any treatment that could be shown to be effective was a grave threat to the universal vaccination campaign. Why? The experimental vaccines could only be provided as long as the emergency use authorization (EUA) remained, and the EUA was contingent on there being no acceptable alternative. If ivermectin (or hydroxychloroquine) were to become “acceptable,” the vaccine rollout would end.”
― Mark McDonald, United States of Fear: How America Fell Victim to a Mass Delusional Psychosis

“This mass delusional psychosis, as I began to call it in my public talks, was rooted in fear but organized around a perverse worship of safety. To secure that safety, no sacrifice was too”
― Mark McDonald, United States of Fear: How America Fell Victim to a Mass Delusional Psychosis

“Without a fearful citizenry, politicians and unelected government bureaucrats would face unrelenting pressure to relinquish their power to the legislative process. Fear is the fuel that powers the engine of conflict of interest and fosters corruption.”
― Mark McDonald, United States of Fear: How America Fell Victim to a Mass Delusional Psychosis

“The cancellation of social activities, home sequestration, instituting of masks and hand sanitizer, and now the mad rush for universal vaccination with an experimental biological agent with no safety record but growing evidence of significant physical harm—are all irrational, delusional, psychotic practices born of safetyism.”
― Mark McDonald, United States of Fear: How America Fell Victim to a Mass Delusional Psychosis

“the combination of media propaganda and social pressure has generated an unstoppable force that drives the hysteria forward.”
― Mark McDonald, United States of Fear: How America Fell Victim to a Mass Delusional Psychosis

“Their function has been purely symbolic, an emblem of fear, anxiety, and compliance. Even the New England Journal of Medicine concurred, describing them as nothing more than “talismans.”
― Mark McDonald, United States of Fear: How America Fell Victim to a Mass Delusional Psychosis

“The more time women spent wearing their masks and seeing their children wear masks, the more difficult it became for them to remove them for any significant length of time. One”
― Mark McDonald, United States of Fear: How America Fell Victim to a Mass Delusional Psychosis

“In other words, much of the time, so-called “controlling” women are simply reacting to a vacuum of male assertiveness in anxious or fearful situations.”
― Mark McDonald, United States of Fear: How America Fell Victim to a Mass Delusional Psychosis