• ggtdbz@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    6 days ago

    Unfortunately, just referring to Covid still acts like an activation phrase for some people, sending them into a locust frenzy and shutting off their critical thinking or empathy.

    You can’t get a word in edgewise that one of the reasons Covid is so bad for you is that it fucks with your immune system in a way that wasn’t expected of similar diseases and can have horrible combined effects with other pre-existing diseases. No, you must be insisting that someone got a coma from what basically felt like the common cold to them, and you must be a gullible moron.

    Lemmy is growing, and like any large enough user base, you will get these people.

    Also, good on you for posting this, I didn’t know there were any updates over the past year.

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      6 days ago

      Oooooh! That hadn’t even occurred to me. I thought it was just garden variety shitty behavior. I think you’re right, though.

      I also see the appearance of thelemmy.club (which as far as I can tell is now, whatever it started out as, a full-time conservative troll instance at this point) as interesting there.