Mass Hysteria In America

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.

There have been many cases where diseases have spread and wiped out tons of people.
There was one time where the people thought "The end of the world is near" (Wolfe 1999, 8). and the White House had the date that dooms day would happen. The way people think is that there is always something else that they don't know and they believe doomsday is planned but there just not telling us.
In the 1940s America had another hysteria after the rise of an alcoholic senator named Joseph McCarthy after the end of WWII(The Second Red Scare 1940’s).

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

ok.
In the 1960s there where racism problems going around against African Americans. All governments state or federal and their agencies simply ignored lynching ( Reconstruction 1960 ,pg 6). US government and the citizens of America were not caring of the fact that they were being racist. It got so bad you could buy picture postcards from proud local merchants of notable area lynchings. Something like this could never happen in today's society there would be major consequences if so. It's crazy how times have changed with the fight against racism .
Now that you know what mass hysteria is you will understand what it means if someone says mass hysteria outbreak or anything like that. You probably also learned facts that you didn't even know happened in America. There are many more situations of mass hysteria that i didn't include in my essay but you can always research on them if you are interested in the topic. Mass hysteria can also sometimes be kind of funny and interesting also there are lots of cases where it’s just weird topics but it teaches you about how and what are societies have gone through in the past decades. The key to not being apart of these outbreaks and diseases that can be spread is to stay healthy and keep your body in good shape.