The General Covid19 Thread

alistair

303abuser I am with you apart from the smokers analogy. Think its unfair to refuse lung cancer treatment to smokers when you consider how much total tax most of them will have paid. Gave up smoking ten years ago 😂

303abuser

alistair haha yeah, it was an analogy more than anything. like i said, i’m not sure any of that is the right thing to do. should we punish the stupid for being manipulated by social media?

FabiParas

The stupid have pretty much punished everyone else for the past four years or so, so it’s only fair?

303abuser

but are they culpable? technology is evolving way faster than our ability to understand it. if russian bot farms can exploit human psychology and that’s compounded by a lack of eduaction, are they responsible? it’s not an easy answer.

jonattonyeah

303abuser

We have the totality of human knowledge at our fingertips. At this point, I believe, if you’re an idiot you have made an explicit choice to be one.

FabiParas

The stupid will say of course not.

303abuser

is it the responsibility of people who know better to shepherd the weak and stupid among us because they can’t do it for themselves?

i like how that sentence comes out as both philosophical and condescending at the same time. 🤣

benson

I fully take the point that lockdown in a tower block is very different to lockdown in a berkshire village where you can easily go for a walk.

I am talking about the most obvious situations where people really could follow the rules but choose not to. Family days out to the supermarket. Similarly, the supermarkets have no interest in enforcing the rules as they will just get abuse. We had a massive traveller funeral out the back of our house. Hundreds of people. 4 police. They blocked the roads with cars so people could not get to work. Even not in covid that is unhelpful.

bosstrabs

benson I fully take the point that lockdown in a tower block is very different to lockdown in a berkshire village where you can easily go for a walk.

Mad Cyril: Hey Dave, why don’t you live in BERKshire? HAHAHAHAHH!!111111

303abuser

beat him to the punch lol.

Mad_Cyril

zackster
I think, from what I’ve read, but hopefully wrong, that you folks are even more fucked for vaccine rollout than us.

Whilst both central governments aren’t exactly performing the UK at least has a national service that’s used to doing this.

US seems to be a bit of a free for all and there’s more to vaccination than just sticking a needle in peoples arms.

Like I said, hope I’m wrong.

Talking of vital supply chain logistics, did you get your wiz whit zack?

zackster

Mad_Cyril Talking of vital supply chain logistics, did you get your wiz whit zack?

Last night mate!

303abuser

jonattonyeah social media isn’t far off brainwashing for some people though. i generally agree that willful ignorance is a massive problem, but that’s a failing of society as much as it is of the individual. education is woefully inadequate.*

*playing devil’s advocate here, i mostly agree with you.

jonattonyeah

303abuser

Yeah, fair. I’ve never used any social media (other than message boards like this) so I’m very ignorant to its power and influence. I do find it confusing how many believe Dr. Facebook over Dr. Fauci. I mean, how did we get here? The generation that told us not to believe everything we see on the internet is now going to YouTube to confirm their own preconceived notions. I hope this is just some growing pains as we adjust to being far too interconnected but I’m not too hopeful.

303abuser

jonattonyeah have you watched the social dilemma? that’ll explain it better than i can here. my degree is in psychology, so although i don’t use it much beyond teaching people about their dogs, i have a little insight into how social media exploits flaws in the way we think and process information. i don’t see how we can adapt to the rate at which technology progresses; i think merging the human brain with tech is probably the way forward, for better or worse.

jonattonyeah

303abuser

I have, yeah. It’s really good. I hope we realize that being in very loose contact with thousands of people is neither necessary nor healthy.

303abuser

jonattonyeah it should be mandatory watching for elementary and junior high kids and their parents. it’s definitely not healthy and we now have the data to prove it.

Dubman

This prick wants shooting but the comments are even worse.

Mad_Cyril

Dubman
Fuckinell Dubbers, I cant unsee that.

Thanks a LOT!!

Dan

Dubman @Adrian Bloodworth Wake up - you tit

🤣

hugopal

Dubman which exact points raised by this upside-down headed fella do you disagree with, and why?

alistair

Sir Keir is doing that thing again where he’s heard what is likely to happen and has decided to call for it first, isn’t he? Like the boyfriend who sees the writing on the wall and is racing to say you’re dumped first

Dubman

alistair
It’s more to do with that tool Carl Vernon

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