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Interesting how as more and more information is leaked out about what really happened during the pandemic, the thousands of commenters who were enthusiastically

Interesting how as more and more information is leaked out about what really happened during the pandemic, the thousands of commenters who were enthusiastically complicit in enabling the gross abuses that happened have become very very quiet. Wonder how many who were pushing for the non-compliant to be imprisoned, or worse, remember the part they gleefully took in all of it. Be prepared for "It's time for us to move on" to become the new blessed narrative all must follow in order to be a good citizen.

version_five 4y ago
There are still a lot of true believers that jump in to these covid discussions (even if it's just to mod down stuff that doesn't support their hysteria). I'm surprised there aren't any smug dismissals posted in this thread yet. Sadly these kind of stories rarely change minds. Once people have dug in, they only get emboldened by any contradictory evidence. Governments spent two+ years radicalizing people, then the messaging just sort of faded away. There should have been loud and unequivocal "ok this is over" but instead nothing because it's politically convenient Edit: smug dismissal now the top comment https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35026368 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35026368
dudul 4y ago
A few weeks ago I ran into an article making a case for a "covid amnesty". Essentially, all the doomsayers who pushed for schools to be closed, for people to be vaccinated or lose their job, etc should just be forgiven because "they didn't know, there wasn't enough data" Kids were badly hurt. People couldn't hold their parents hand as they were dying (not necessarily of covid). Hell, they could barely organize funerals.
worksonmine 4y ago
And now it's flagged for whatever reason. There's usually lots of great in-depth discussion here on HN and the reason I come here but the pandemic was an exception. Was very disappointing to see at the time.

version_five 4y ago

There are still a lot of true believers that jump in to these covid discussions (even if it's just to mod down stuff that doesn't support their hysteria). I'm surprised there aren't any smug dismissals posted in this thread yet. Sadly these kind of stories rarely change minds. Once people have dug in, they only get emboldened by any contradictory evidence. Governments spent two+ years radicalizing people, then the messaging just sort of faded away. There should have been loud and unequivocal "ok this is over" but instead nothing because it's politically convenient Edit: smug dismissal now the top comment https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35026368 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35026368

dudul 4y ago

A few weeks ago I ran into an article making a case for a "covid amnesty". Essentially, all the doomsayers who pushed for schools to be closed, for people to be vaccinated or lose their job, etc should just be forgiven because "they didn't know, there wasn't enough data" Kids were badly hurt. People couldn't hold their parents hand as they were dying (not necessarily of covid). Hell, they could barely organize funerals.

worksonmine 4y ago

And now it's flagged for whatever reason. There's usually lots of great in-depth discussion here on HN and the reason I come here but the pandemic was an exception. Was very disappointing to see at the time.