Lance Welton, who writes informative articles with a sociobiological spin, gives his take on the concept of mass formation psychosis, now popularised by Dr Robert Malone after his program on the Joe Rogan Experience. Actually, the heavy lifting was done by Dr. Matthias Desmet, a lecturer in psychoanalytic psychotherapy at Ghent University in Belgium, and aspects of the theory were presented in social psychology and sociology before him. Desmet does not use the term “psychosis,” while Dr Malone does, and I think Malone is right to do so, as what is seen with the Covid freak-out is a form of social mental illness.