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I really think covid has broken hacker news. Maybe it’s instructive. It’s the most interesting tech story of the decade. I want to know everything about how the

I really think covid has broken hacker news. Maybe it’s instructive. It’s the most interesting tech story of the decade. I want to know everything about how the virus works, how we can fight back, what new ideas are out there, etc. for a community that loves articles that require thinking, it should be great. Instead, covid threads are awful. Comments which are pure drivel and talking points are the norm. Politics has infested and rotted our brains. So with ivermectin, it’s as I was with HCQ or Vitamin D: I’m open minded and intrigued. I want to read the studies, especially the theoretical ones. Let me watch things develop and let medicine take it to patients if the science gets there. But you can’t do that when every other comment is weaponized to the point where people are scarred to read articles because they might contradict their dogma.

1_player 5y ago
I am sleep-deprived and just caught myself reading this comment thread. I've been avoiding HN threads about the COVID like I avoid any scaremongering ones on Reddit: it's just a massive pile of people that think they know better than most spreading constant misinformation. The worst thing about the pandemic is it has made the vast majority of the populace an expert in epidemiology, biological containment, sociology, politics, economy, virology. Everyone has an opinion to share about it. Everyone has something to say about it. In a forum where most people are technically-minded, this creates the negative and odious version of nerd sniping. Nerds talking out of their arse about stuff way over their head. I don't like calling for censorship, but I wish dang would demote and let any COVID-related post slide off the front page 10x as fast as any normal thread. They did it for Bitcoin, and frankly it was not such a shitshow.

1_player 5y ago

I am sleep-deprived and just caught myself reading this comment thread. I've been avoiding HN threads about the COVID like I avoid any scaremongering ones on Reddit: it's just a massive pile of people that think they know better than most spreading constant misinformation. The worst thing about the pandemic is it has made the vast majority of the populace an expert in epidemiology, biological containment, sociology, politics, economy, virology. Everyone has an opinion to share about it. Everyone has something to say about it. In a forum where most people are technically-minded, this creates the negative and odious version of nerd sniping. Nerds talking out of their arse about stuff way over their head. I don't like calling for censorship, but I wish dang would demote and let any COVID-related post slide off the front page 10x as fast as any normal thread. They did it for Bitcoin, and frankly it was not such a shitshow.