The Authors of the European Psychopathic Epidemic
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The COVID-19 pandemic related European hysteria of 2020 has a definite starting point. March 16 was the opening of a new order and new rules making in Europe. An unprecedented violation of the Schengen Agreement (first time in the history of the European Union) as a consequence of which Germany closed its borders. As it is known, afterward, Germany introduced an unusual quarantine. As a consequence of such precedent, these kinds of human control methods (targeted specifically on people, not the COVID-19) scaled all over the European Union and followed by some countries of Eastern Europe, in particular Ukraine. However, March 16 is a historical date for another off-radar reason. On March 16 a controversial article was published on the website of the Imperial College of London (Ferguson, 2020), which considerably influenced the decision-making process in European states and became one of the triggers of the psychopathic epidemic in western and eastern Europe. Materials published on the Imperial College of London website enabled elected officials to justify any measures with quarantine, which drove to significant economic consequences and generated unprecedented panic of populations. The invisible enemy and uncertain future, decorated and mutilated to some extent by the media, plunged Western and Eastern Europe into awe. The report of the scientific team led by Professor Ferguson (Neil Morris Ferguson) from Great Britain is the central object of this journalistic investigation.
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