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The best thing about people talking about Covid is how civil and understanding everyone is about everyone else’s perspective. It restores my faith in our societ
by sovietmudkipz 5y ago
The best thing about people talking about Covid is how civil and understanding everyone is about everyone else’s perspective. It restores my faith in our society (USA) when I see or overhear a conversation about Covid and our nation’s response to it. I think all people have very high emotional intelligence and have willingness to understand, and not fight. I’m glad that 99% of conversations don’t devolve into tribal affiliation signaling and wishes for bad outcomes for anyone not in their tribe.
When my local social networks (friends, family, coworkers) talk about COVID I internally jump for joy because I know I will hear everyone’s heavily considered thoughts and opinions on the subject, and not ones assigned to them by their own curated bubble of influencers. Yay.
- 2OEH8eoCRo0 5y agoA+ sarcasm
- totetsu 5y agosay that's quite a rhetorical technique you've got going there, you got a name for it?
- sovietmudkipz 5y agoLaying it on pretty thick ;)
- sgjohnson 5y agopost-irony although this is obvious enough to be just satire
- mbg721 5y agoIt'd be Times-Irony otherwise.
- ryandrake 5y agoIt's sad. COVID discussion has ruined multiple online forums I (used to) participate in. Well-moderated forums that I used to love and respect, all turn into the YouTube Comment Section whenever the topic comes up. Something about the COVID, even moreso than politics, draws the trolls like a lightning rod and is astonishingly resistant to effective site moderation. I think mods (not just here) have gotten really good at nuking obvious flamewars, spam, and left-vs-right political threads, but for whatever reason hesitate when it comes to misinformation. HN has a guideline about "political or ideological battles" but what do you do when the entire topic has become ideological?
- dang 5y agoThe problem with comments like this is that they do the thing they're complaining about, which makes it worse. To help find our collective way out of this, we should each find it in ourselves to contribute in a different spirit.