So there are a number of versions of sick that are running around San Francisco. Two varieties are the Kierkegaard and Schopenhaurer variants. What this is is sick that comes from the same or similar illnesses that the philosophers had.
How this works is that if you have the sick that Schopenhaurer had you're more likely to believe in an overarching will. This sounds stupid excepting when you find yourself doing things that seem similar to his philosophy in will and representation.
The way you fix this is doing things that biologically weren't available at the time the philosopher was alive (or that he didn't do). It ends up killing the illness and you cough up the crap in your lungs and are clear headed again. This includes some drugs, but also surprisingly shit monoglutamate and other food additives k junk food.
This is further complicated because assholes who are distributing this are operating out of one facility in Plano, TX. So they've had the "smartlabel" plastic bags that wrap the majority of food in the city of San Francisco made out plastic bags that melt and sweat plastic that will make you sick. Except certain brands like "cheetos" because when you buy those they have an electronic record of it (and it's "funny" like cheating).
So this is shit being done by the harlequin or stupid side of the catholic church. You'll also notice the rise in diabetes and people who are accumulating plastic in their blood stream. It's a bunch of people that are eating junk food to kill off this virus.
The easiest way to fix this is to both break the monopoly on the chemicals that kill the illness, get rid of plastic bags by randomly pulling and testing junk food for wrappers that are "sticky" and will make someone sick, and just distributing pills of the chemicals. It's as easy to distribute a pill with monoglutamate and a bunch of synthetic dyes if it will kill off viruses that make you believe stupid shit.