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without the internet more people would have died from COVID simply because the information wouldn't have been disseminated about what it is to begin with.
by endisneigh 3y ago
without the internet more people would have died from COVID simply because the information wouldn't have been disseminated about what it is to begin with.
- clnq 3y agoMost governments have been disseminating the information in many other media channels along with the internet. Aside from one or two beneficial articles I read about COVID-19 on the web, I don't think I have received any crucial information there. The internet could have been used as a tool to mobilise people against gross government negligence involved in handling COVID-19 response in many countries, but instead most critical pieces of government response were just consumed as outrage porn they were, in part, written to be. Overall, I have learned nothing useful about the pandemic from the internet, and I have been consuming a lot of what was on there, reading all the major news outlets and big forums daily like a lot of us. This is not to say that one could not possibly use internet for good in COVID-19, just that it hasn't been used that way, generally.