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And that conspiracy theory got circulated so widely that the health authorities in the U.S. "There was also a rumor circulating at the time that the Bayer Pharmaceutical Company in the U.S., which was a formerly a German company, that they were putting the virus into the aspirin tablets. And in fact, there was a statement from a health official appearing in the New York Times in 1918 claiming that German agents in U-boats, that is, submarines were coming ashore in Manhattan in the dead of night and going into cinemas in public places and so forth and releasing the the flu virus to contaminate people. In both of those countries, there were conspiracy theories that the influenza pandemic or that the virus was actually caused by the Germans as a bioweapon. The rise of racism, blaming people, conspiracy theories. The rise of anticipatory anxiety before the actual spread of infection in communities. In fact, the parallels outweigh the differences, not just in the 1918 one, but in other pandemics, too. TAYLOR: "All of the phenomena we're seeing today have been seen in past pandemics. because just four months later, the next global pandemic became a reality. Fortunately, he eventually got it published.
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In October 2019, Taylor published a book called “The Psychology of Pandemics: Preparing for the Next Global Outbreak of Infectious Disease."Īnd it's an interesting story there, because when Steven wrote the book and first tried to get it published, no one would publish it. Steven Taylor is a clinical psychologist and professor in the psychiatry department at the University of British Columbia. This is part of our hour on the pandemic's impact on mental health. Times Square area near 42nd Street in New York City.