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The ones that upvoted are the ones that people relate to? i.e. they've had the same experience. People aren't just upvoting covid porn.

timr 4y ago
A lot of people are, in fact, amplifying things that scare them (or things that trigger emotions). All I've done here is share an equivalent, balancing anecdote.
- darkteflon 4y ago
  The dude just told us he’s lost his dad, and your second paragraph was “let’s not exaggerate”. Your original comment - sharing your own anecdote - would’ve been better without the second paragraph.
  - timr 4y ago
    Yes. The fact that someone's father died is tragic. It still doesn't give them carte blanche to exaggerate or emphasize scary anecdotes at the expense of boring ones.
    - ekianjo 4y ago
      so your pov is more valid than anyone else's? interesting.
      - timr 4y ago
        Nope. My story is just as useless as every other anecdote when it comes to evaluating the truth of something like this. The point is to provide a neutral voice in contrast to the fearful one.
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        loktarogar 4y ago
        "I lost my dad" doesn't warrant an immediate "well, I didn't". You don't have to void someone's experience just because you think it'll scare some folks. I lost two friends to COVID. That weighs on me a hell of a lot more than the knowledge that I didn't lose others. It's going to influence every discussion on this forever. Because they died.
        taolegal 4y ago
        > "I lost my dad" doesn't warrant an immediate "well, I didn't" Yea it does when it's used as a rhetorical blunt object to bash dissent in every conversation when people speak about the egregious & fruitless authoritarianism that capitalized on the exaggerated risks of covid. There is a very specific risk profile and treating everyone who's at very low risk as though they're on the opposite end of the spectrum is simply misinformed. There are people who are vulnerable to covid, that has always been the case, but they are a very small minority of people. And insofar as pretty much every heavy-handed intervention failed to protect those people, and also inflicted a massive fruitless cost on society (that oddly enough puts the vulnerable at even more risk because of the resulting societal dysfunction and disorder), yea you better believe people should be pushing back on using the dead as a thought-terminating cliche. It's a way to scapegoat the rest of society for not obsessively masking (as though this ever helped adequately, the evidence is still weak and in real-life most people either don't use the right mask or use the mask incorrectly) or taking a vaccine that doesn't even prevent transmission.
        loktarogar 4y ago
        No, it doesn't. I'm sorry that every discussion for you about covid is about the covid response which you dislike but sometimes people are just human. Have some empathy.
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    - John23832 4y ago
      What makes their anecdote "emphasis" or "exaggeration", while yours is jut sharing? If your anecdote is "boring" or a more normal representation, why share? It seems like you want to fight to downplay the effects of covid, which is fine, but your approach is totally off.
      - timr 4y ago
        > If your anecdote is "boring" or a more normal representation, why share? Because if we don't, the only people who will share will be the ones with scary stories. But indeed...why share any anecdote at all? They're pointless, except when used (as they usually are) to trigger emotions. I'm saying that there's a tendency for people to amplify the emotional stories, and ignore the boring ones.
    - throwaway_au_1 4y ago
      How were they exaggerating or emphasizing them? Looks pretty matter of fact to me.
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timr 4y ago

A lot of people are, in fact, amplifying things that scare them (or things that trigger emotions). All I've done here is share an equivalent, balancing anecdote.

darkteflon 4y ago
The dude just told us he’s lost his dad, and your second paragraph was “let’s not exaggerate”. Your original comment - sharing your own anecdote - would’ve been better without the second paragraph.
- timr 4y ago
  Yes. The fact that someone's father died is tragic. It still doesn't give them carte blanche to exaggerate or emphasize scary anecdotes at the expense of boring ones.
  - ekianjo 4y ago
    so your pov is more valid than anyone else's? interesting.
    - timr 4y ago
      Nope. My story is just as useless as every other anecdote when it comes to evaluating the truth of something like this. The point is to provide a neutral voice in contrast to the fearful one.
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      - loktarogar 4y ago
        "I lost my dad" doesn't warrant an immediate "well, I didn't". You don't have to void someone's experience just because you think it'll scare some folks. I lost two friends to COVID. That weighs on me a hell of a lot more than the knowledge that I didn't lose others. It's going to influence every discussion on this forever. Because they died.
        taolegal 4y ago
        > "I lost my dad" doesn't warrant an immediate "well, I didn't" Yea it does when it's used as a rhetorical blunt object to bash dissent in every conversation when people speak about the egregious & fruitless authoritarianism that capitalized on the exaggerated risks of covid. There is a very specific risk profile and treating everyone who's at very low risk as though they're on the opposite end of the spectrum is simply misinformed. There are people who are vulnerable to covid, that has always been the case, but they are a very small minority of people. And insofar as pretty much every heavy-handed intervention failed to protect those people, and also inflicted a massive fruitless cost on society (that oddly enough puts the vulnerable at even more risk because of the resulting societal dysfunction and disorder), yea you better believe people should be pushing back on using the dead as a thought-terminating cliche. It's a way to scapegoat the rest of society for not obsessively masking (as though this ever helped adequately, the evidence is still weak and in real-life most people either don't use the right mask or use the mask incorrectly) or taking a vaccine that doesn't even prevent transmission.
        loktarogar 4y ago
        No, it doesn't. I'm sorry that every discussion for you about covid is about the covid response which you dislike but sometimes people are just human. Have some empathy.
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  - John23832 4y ago
    What makes their anecdote "emphasis" or "exaggeration", while yours is jut sharing? If your anecdote is "boring" or a more normal representation, why share? It seems like you want to fight to downplay the effects of covid, which is fine, but your approach is totally off.
    - timr 4y ago
      > If your anecdote is "boring" or a more normal representation, why share? Because if we don't, the only people who will share will be the ones with scary stories. But indeed...why share any anecdote at all? They're pointless, except when used (as they usually are) to trigger emotions. I'm saying that there's a tendency for people to amplify the emotional stories, and ignore the boring ones.
  - throwaway_au_1 4y ago
    How were they exaggerating or emphasizing them? Looks pretty matter of fact to me.
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- nullrecursion 4y ago
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