Its more than fair to say that we are experiencing a pandemic, but not the one you hear about ad nauseum. No, the pandemic is not a virus, it is a pandemic outbreak of Munchausens Syndrome by Proxy which focuses its obsessions on the virus. Munchausens Syndrome by Proxy is a mental illness in which the sufferer fantasizes that othersusually people in their charge, such as childrenare suffering from serious illness and require drastic medical intervention.