Baudrillard

I'm not going to pretend that Baudrillard wasn't particularly difficult, or that I was put him down still quite confused. From what I DID understand though, I will try to make some coherent thoughts. Baudrillard focuses on representations and simulations in relation to reality. He talks about how images reflect, mask, and pervert reality; but also how they mask its absence and are in no way related to reality.
He is continually drawing the conclusion that the simulation replaces reality, and that reality becomes the simulation. One of the examples he used was Disneyworld. "Disneyland is there to conceal the fact that it is the 'real' country...Disneyland is presented as imaginary in order to make us believe that the rest is real." Another example is illness. One feigning illness is simply pretending to be ill. One simulating illness, however, is producing symptoms of that illness. So are they actually ill or not? Who is to tell the difference? Baudrillard follows that if it can be simulated, then it becomes real, replacing the formerly recognized reality.