Look at some historical examples of mass psychogenic illnesses: dancing plagues, laughing plagues, meowing nuns,
Basically: mass psychogenic illness, and presentation of various mental illnesses, do not occur in a vacuum. Cultures shape them.
There have been several mass outbreaks of men completely convinced their penises are shrinking, anchoring them with string at night so they don't get sucked back inside.
Almost all in Southeast Asia.
https://t.co/fr9X1E1ayx
In which people compulsively dance until exhaustion, dehydration, and death.
It is not real. Arctic explorers invented it to justify sexually assaulting women.
Like drapetomania, it was colonizers pathologizing self preservation
https://t.co/cmq6zg9ZJ1
You should expect there to be different presentations of various mental illnesses in different places.
150 years ago, if you had night terrors, you hallucinated monsters and fair folk trying to eat you.
After the Wright brothers, you probably hallucinated aliens abducting you.
The US has had modern zombies permeate public consciousness for 52 years. Everyone knows what zombies are. They are as ingrained into culture as any folkloric demon or monster anywhere else.
No rage virus or space radiation or 2-4-5 trioxin needed. Just stress, applied at the right points.
Stress, in the right conditions, does interesting things.
Schools and convents have historically been perfect breeding grounds for this.
Get them to have zombies on their mind. Have em do zombie-related art, or marathons of zombie movies, or do papers on the ethnology of zombies.
Let that percolate.

Somehow frustrate the everloving fuck out of them. Constrain their freedom, clamp down with your adult authority, annoy them even more than teenagers usually are annoyed.
Have one kid pretend to bite another. Use squibs for realism, call in a favor from Tom Savini or something.
People have, multiple times, danced so violently for so long that they wore away the skin on their feet revealing bone before dying of dehydration.
And in American culture, the zombie is standing right there as a perfect outlet.
You could call it Quisling Syndrome, after the similar condition in the book World War Z.
Well, look again at the 2016 evil clowns, and how one of the forgotten plotlines in 2020 was that they'd returned.
Speaking of which: notice how readily and hungrily people ate that up? How excited they were to see it?
If you do it, buy me some rice to thank me: https://t.co/TRTsg6UUwh
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The US immigration act of 1907 signed by Teddy Roosevelt: ableist as hell. https://t.co/ficeXOImo5
One theory for why the Spanish flu was so unusually lethal for young people:
They hadn't lived through the previous flu pandemic of 1889-1890 (https://t.co/OiDZYtdbWx) that killed about 1 million people. And thus had no carryover immunity.
It's suspected that the 1889 pandemic was not influenza, but a coronavirus.
The 1889 virus spread rapidly, killing mostly the elderly.
The 1889 virus was the first truly modern pandemic: people knew about germs, it spread via trains, it spread at the speed of modern transportation and commerce

Today's covid denialists are tomorrow's openly eugenicist "these disabled people are a drain on society"
— Anosognosiogenesis (@pookleblinky) November 29, 2020
Literally. 13 years after the Spanish flu, the very first people the nazis targeted were disabled people.
What caused a lot of those disabilities, you think?
One theory for why the Spanish flu was so unusually lethal for young people:
They hadn't lived through the previous flu pandemic of 1889-1890 (https://t.co/OiDZYtdbWx) that killed about 1 million people. And thus had no carryover immunity.
It's suspected that the 1889 pandemic was not influenza, but a coronavirus.
The 1889 virus spread rapidly, killing mostly the elderly.
The 1889 virus was the first truly modern pandemic: people knew about germs, it spread via trains, it spread at the speed of modern transportation and commerce
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