Prof Mattias Desmet is a professor of clinical psychology and faculty member at the department of psychoanalysis and clinical consulting at the University of Ghent in Belgium. He also holds a masters degree in statistics, which led him to evaluate the long term costs of lockdowns and isolation during the early stages of the pandemic. As an expert in the psychology of totalitarian states, Mattias has theorized that society has been suffering from what he terms “mass formation” — a kind of collective hypnosis that has won over large numbers of people to follow and obey governments’ draconian measures regarding lockdowns, masks, and vaccinations and to uncritically believe the non-scientific propaganda that is now keeping the pandemic alive. This view of mass formation is rapidly gaining popularity among some of our harshest critics of pandemic’s architects such Bobby Kennedy, Peter McCullough and Robert Malone.