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I'll be sure to tell all the thousands of small business owners who were forced to permanently shutter their business that it was just a simple mask mandate aft

I'll be sure to tell all the thousands of small business owners who were forced to permanently shutter their business that it was just a simple mask mandate after all.

lern_too_spel 5y ago
You're attacking a strawman here. Nothing that was marked as misinformation was about the economic effects of lockdowns. If those effects concern you, you should be concerned with vaccine misinformation prolonging lockdowns, whether those lockdowns are government-enforced or due to individuals concerned about risk.
- blindmute 5y ago
  >If you'd asked people two years ago what they thought about the idea of locking the whole country down indefinitely for a virus with a 99% survival rate (and over 99.9% for people under 50), the vast majority would have said it's a crazy idea. >Calling getting vaccines and wearing masks indoors "locking the whole country down indefinitely" is definitely hyperbolic. You can say that not everything is still locked down (some stuff still is), but don't pretend like 6 months ago you would have been against the lockdowns that actually happened.
  - lern_too_spel 5y ago
    Once again, don't pretend that lockdowns is what the argument is about. That is a straw man. It is about whether companies should be obligated to spread misinformation about vaccines and diseases without getting to mark that as misinformation — they aren't. It is about whether that "infantilization" of the users of the platform is new — it isn't.
    - blindmute 5y ago
      That's what this thread is about, but it's not what this subthread or the post you replied to is about.
      - lern_too_spel 5y ago
        No, it isn't. Both you and logicchains keep trying to make the discussion about that, but that has nothing to do with whether posts should be marked as misinformation because people ignore common sense.

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I'll be sure to tell all the thousands of small business owners who were forced to permanently shutter their business that it was just a simple mask mandate aft

by blindmute 5y ago

I'll be sure to tell all the thousands of small business owners who were forced to permanently shutter their business that it was just a simple mask mandate after all.

lern_too_spel 5y ago
You're attacking a strawman here. Nothing that was marked as misinformation was about the economic effects of lockdowns. If those effects concern you, you should be concerned with vaccine misinformation prolonging lockdowns, whether those lockdowns are government-enforced or due to individuals concerned about risk.
- blindmute 5y ago
  >If you'd asked people two years ago what they thought about the idea of locking the whole country down indefinitely for a virus with a 99% survival rate (and over 99.9% for people under 50), the vast majority would have said it's a crazy idea. >Calling getting vaccines and wearing masks indoors "locking the whole country down indefinitely" is definitely hyperbolic. You can say that not everything is still locked down (some stuff still is), but don't pretend like 6 months ago you would have been against the lockdowns that actually happened.
  - lern_too_spel 5y ago
    Once again, don't pretend that lockdowns is what the argument is about. That is a straw man. It is about whether companies should be obligated to spread misinformation about vaccines and diseases without getting to mark that as misinformation — they aren't. It is about whether that "infantilization" of the users of the platform is new — it isn't.
    - blindmute 5y ago
      That's what this thread is about, but it's not what this subthread or the post you replied to is about.
      - lern_too_spel 5y ago
        No, it isn't. Both you and logicchains keep trying to make the discussion about that, but that has nothing to do with whether posts should be marked as misinformation because people ignore common sense.