Word: hysteria
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Remember the Freeze? Ground Zero Week? The Day After? Remember when psychiatrists were blaming the Bomb for everything from violence to video games? It was barely a decade ago that America was in the grip of nuclear hysteria. Yet when, in London, Presidents Gorbachev and Bush dramatically announced the conclusion of START, the most substantial arms treaty in history, they were met with yawns...
...fact, medical workers are more vulnerable to being infected by patients than vice versa. The CDC has documented 40 such cases -- most of them involving accidents with hypodermic needles that contained contaminated blood. "Because there is mass hysteria, and because this is a fatal disease, and because people don't know very much about this, people's common-sense reaction, including Senators', is to act first and think later," says Geri Palast, a lobbyist for the Service Employees International Union, which represents 350,000 health-care workers...
...physician says, "Don't worry about it." They also have a right to ask exactly how each piece of equipment has been sterilized. As the AIDS epidemic enters its second decade, professionals and private citizens alike should choose a path of reasoned caution, rather than dismissive bravado or irrational hysteria...
...world gets more complex, you have to manage aggression better. Speech codes are a way to manage the frustrations, anxieties and hysteria of a more complex world," said Martin Kilson, professor of government at Harvard. "Some succeed, some fail. That's how we learn, by trial and error...
Still, the early years of the Cold War, for all the foolishness and hysteria they engendered, provided a sense of shared goals and common interests. The truest expression of common sacrifice is public investment, which requires that we give up some enjoyment now in order to provide for prosperity for posterity. And the single most important public investment of the postwar era--the Interstate highway system--was conceived and sold to the public as a national security measure...