The Woke Mind Virus epidemic may be going the way of SARS-CoV-2. But like long Covid, it leaves a wave of mental illness in its wake.

MIT Sloan Management Review addressed the problem in a recent article titled “Your People Are Not All Right.”

“It’s not your imagination: Your team’s mental well-being is under attack from uncertainty,” intones the materteral business nanny. Her oleaginous discovery is that the real disease is insufficient consulting fees.

Ditto on college campuses, where “accommodations” for mental health problems have shot through the roof. Neurodivergence has actually become a prized new identity. (You’re trans? That’s so yesterday. I have Tourette’s! )

Spend ten minutes on social media or watching the evening news and you’ll see no shortage of crazy people cosplaying as “activists.” Some think they can save the planet by gluing themselves to famous paintings. Others step in front of moving vehicles pursuing social justice.

Unseen forces assemble flash mobs in multiple cities, primed to fulminate about the ever-changing cause du jour—usually via talking points no one seems to have actually read. The cognitive dissonance is as baked in as the professionally printed signs.

Some of them literally begged to be shot. And like some perverse wish-granting service, they got their martyr.

Cue the instant canonization on social media, the rage-fueled think pieces, and the next round of flash mobs. All coordinated with impressive speed and zero self-awareness.

So no, your people are not all right. But the real emergency isn’t their mental health. It’s the rest of us being forced to treat this three-ring circus like a public health crisis while the press fans the flames and calls it journalism.