Is covid-liberalism a bannable offense in c/covid?
I’m getting really fucking weary of seeing sentiments like, “being upset about someone scheduling a non-emergency dental appointment in the middle of the second largest covid wave is deranged” or “you’re a selfish asshole for expecting your loved ones to do the bare fucking minimum to protect you” in discussions on masking or vaccine uptake
I know I’m not the only one disappointed in the growing anomie. Maybe we should operate more like c/vegan where everything from omnivore apologia to overt antiveganism (analogous to the above anti-precaution/anti-max/anti-vax-apologia) is forbidden, and posting/commenting as much gets you a ban?
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Maybe we should operate more like c/vegan where everything from omnivore apologia to overt antiveganism (analogous to the above anti-precaution/anti-max/anti-vax-apologia) is forbidden, and posting/commenting as much gets you a ban?
I agree with this. We should have at least one place where COVID can be discussed without people coming in to scold people for not kissing strangers on New Year’s Eve.
Hexbear has historically been one of the few anti-covid communities out there that isn’t primarily focused on Covid, at least that I’ve found. It should absolutely be a bannable offense, I’d argue from the site. I did not realize we had a struggle session about Covid, wtf.
a user posted a vent post about how he was frustrated his partner got covid and he probably would too as a result, listing a few gripes he had to get them off his chest like that she wasn’t being as careful as he would like and also had a recent dentist appointment, at no point did OP say anything to their partner or in any way imply he wasn’t going to take care of them and a bunch of people said really absurdly aggressive and shitty things to him over it, its still the top fucking post for me right now because people can’t stop pearl clutching
I’ve been saying it for four years, the virus doesn’t give a fuck about your politics, you’re not owning anyone, you’re just shaving decades off your lifespan, which I guess technically means you’re owning yourself
If we were a sane society, people not practicing safe covid precautions should receive an ass-whooping, because it would count as self-defense
I think the virus really likes capitalism. It’s done a lot for it.
Very telling that most of the people bashing OP in the other thread are new here and probably aren’t aware of c/covid and the culture this site has about taking COVID seriously.
Yeah, I’ve bit my tongue a few times outside c/covid lately about people angry at being judged for not masking, and it’s almost always been newer accounts.
Maybe we should operate more like c/vegan where everything from omnivore apologia to overt antiveganism (analogous to the above anti-precaution/anti-max/anti-vax-apologia) is forbidden, and posting/commenting as much gets you a ban?
The !vegan@hexbear.net sidebar has lots of resources that lurkers can use to educate themselves before posting, but the !covid@hexbear.net sidebar does not. If the sidebar includes resources about dentist safety, moderating comments that express unfamiliarity with or opposition to those resources seems reasonable.
i saw someone share that covid.tips resource a while back that I think would also be good as a sidebar resource
Yes please
I don’t remember Hexbears being this bad about COVID before :(
Hexbear has grown a lot in recent months, we have over 900 daily users now
it feels less active than a few months ago for me, aside from the undying threads that stay at the top of main for ages, maybe my account is fucked up somehow
Nah you’re right, I clear through the site in like half the time I used to (I use it to kill time at work so it has been obviously noticeable).
Do y’all stay local? I have nothing to back it up, but think more and more of our activity is happening over on federated comms.
I sort by all but it’s mostly local (with some lemmygrad thrown in). Checking the front page right now, 16/17 top posts in the last day are local (1 from lemmygrad), and 15/16 active posts are local (1 from lemmy.ml); 12/15 hot are local but I don’t use hot sort much. I’ve blocked a lot of the low effort (federated) meme comms but those were mostly low activity with lots of votes IIRC.
I knew Hexbear had given in to being plague rats when there was massive discourseTM and treat-defending on Barbenheimer when the only thought I had was, “you fuckers willingly jumped into the Covid death trap called movie theaters for the sake of two fucking movies. You risked getting long Covid and infecting other people with Covid for two shitty movies you won’t even remember in 5 years.” I sympathize if you’re talking about an important social gathering like a wedding or if you’re trying to organize with people who unfortunately are plague rats, but how much of a fucking treat-brained plague rat do you have to be to not wait 6 goddamn months before those movies show up on Netflix?
It’s Joever for the broader site.
I don’t know what liberalism is even supposed to mean in this context; surely any sort of Marxist or materialist analysis would tend to put the blame on the systemic forces shoving people into the orphan juicing machine, not on the individuals navigating the systems incompetently.
YouSomeone else was deliberately undermining evidence-based precautionary advice regarding vaccines and masking, despite, apparently possessing the knowledge and tools to see that what you were dispensing was at best merely dismissive of individual efforts towards harm reduction in their own lives, and at its worst, simply harmful advice.To be aware of one’s own mistakes and yet make no attempt to correct them, taking a liberal attitude towards oneself. This is an eleventh type.
edited: sorry, I’m losing my mind and conflated you with another user
OP of that post was also not actually blaming his partner, it was a vent post, a way to air frustrations that are not worth or appropriate to do more than that for. It is extremely silly to frame it this way, like he sat down and ran the numbers and its all his partners fault, thats not the kind of post it was
I mean I read the following
She’s also sorry, and I say it’s fine because I want her to feel better and recover, but secretly I’m fucking raging.
As raging at her. That’s what it seems to convey to me. If not, then yeah, disregard me.
I am fairly sure that its more along the lines of “fucking raging” at the 7th red light in a row on your 40 minute commute when you just want to be home after a double shift
Not like baying for blood, but like, GAAHH. I imagine the person who wrote that post spent exactly as long thinking of what words to use there as they took to type them out, it wasn’t an effort post
I could also be wrong, but this is hexbear and we’re supposed to assume good faith, especially in the context of an emotional vent post
Not like baying for blood, but like, GAAHH. I imagine the person who wrote that post spent exactly as long thinking of what words to use there as they took to type them out, it wasn’t an effort post
Literally thank you. I thought of putting an edit under the post, but we’re all grown ups. I just needed a space to unload my feelings when unloading on my partner wasn’t helpful.
