@jesscraven101 This is a delusion. Thinking that J.K. Rowling's defense of women's human rights puts your child in danger is a delusion and makes you an extremist.
@ArneBab I'm seriously disappointed that you support this kind of misogynist extremism. The witch hunt against JKR is really dangerous. Women have already been suffering physical assault by radicalized trans activists for years, not to mention an endless torrent of death threats, vandalizing of their property, being hounded out of their jobs, etc., and it's only getting more and more extreme. Now people are saying feminists are responsible for the murder of a 15 year-old child, and no question this level of delusional hatred against feminists is going to end up in a number of renewed assaults down the line.
> Government will never ever directly take control of anything. They will get private business to do it, because that guarantees the ancap tards will see absolutely nothing wrong with it.
To my knowledge, in the US, it's corporations that control the government, not the other way around.
I believe businesses implemented mandates because they knew that they were otherwise risking large numbers of sickness among the workforce, ultimately leading to loss of profit.
We've actually seen a pretty big example of that happening in Germany:
1,500 workers infected, production shut down, forced to install HEPA filters before they were allowed to reopen.
To be completely fair, it sounds like it might have been related to the way the ventilation systems work in meat production sites: Air being constantly recirculated to save on cooling, with viruses surviving longer in the cold air...
Anyhow. I wonder what motivation you think governments have that leads them to implement vaccination mandates, other than a combination of protecting the economy (corpo profits) and protecting public health.
@cjd@r000t That's a really extreme position to take. I think there are a lot *more* emergencies out there that are not getting enough or even any attention. Of course, some issues may in turn be blown out of proportion for one or another reason, but I don't believe COVID was an example of that. It's easy to look away and think that everything must really be OK when you live in a small privileged bubble that's relatively unaffected.
@fluffy I never realized that this happened until I heard about it very recently, and don't understand why it happened either.
The way it was back in the time:
- If you're tech illiterate, you use IE because it's what Windows offers by default. - If you're moderately nerdy, you use FF or Chrome, and there's never been a really big advantage of either over the other so they were always toe to toe. - If you're a hipster you use Safari (Apple hipster) or Opera (non-Apple hipster).
What changed? Why's everyone preferring Chrome over FF all of a sudden, and who taught all the boomers to avoid IE?