Playing The Plague

Confusion that never stops
Closing walls and ticking clocks
--Coldplay

Part of the cognitive dissonance associated with Trump Derangement Syndrome is to believe that everything that is bad in the world since the 2016 election is due to the president and his administration. However, if everything is not bad in the world and people with TDS syndrome aren't experiencing it personally, then that creates another condition of cognitive dissonance that the mind must cope with.

This has driven many to equate the CV19 situation to The Plague. And then, in order to convince their minds that it is true, they are acting out what they would do in a Plague script. They shut themselves in. They watch infection and death counts. They wear themselves down physically and mentally.

To persuade their psyches that their dream is real, they play The Plague.