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

being upset about someone scheduling a non-emergency dental appointment

im going to hyperfixate on this example specifically because i otherwise agree completely with this post

problem is that dental problems snowball. you don't get proper dental treatment, it gets worse. so then you need a more expensive and invasive surgery or operation later on

so unless it's literally a routine checkup, i would argue there isn't really such a thing as a "non-essential" dental appointment. this literally only matters to me because my teeth hurt and i don't want them to continue to hurt more

edit: the fact that covid-safe dentists exists means that i am both exonerated and you are more correct. get your teeth cleaned by a non plague rat dentist hexbearites

edit 2: my point is basically that i care about dental hygiene and covid safety and i dont want to trade those off from each other

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This community exists for the few of us left who genuinely still care about the virus’ impact on humanity and we are not ones who disregard prioritizing our health and the health of our loved ones.

This is a space to share research, to educate and to be educated with the little resources we have available to us, however we feel about this virus shouldn’t concern you and if you want to ignore the virus and pretend it doesn’t exist go ahead and do that but we won’t back down from trying to protect you or tell you how dangerous Covid is, we are still living in a pandemic.

Do not come here for a fight because you will be banned immediately.

Yeah definitely a "take note of which usernames are going treatlord on this person for venting about how bad it sucks to suffer through this pandemic that the systems that be have decided to pretend is not happening" situation. my mom tested positive like 2 days ago and I'm also very pissed

yeah like we hear enough of that rhetoric irl i don't think it has a place in c/covid

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.

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.

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.

Agreed. Unmask a Liberal and a Fascist will try to sell you on a Eugenics of apathy and, "Well, actually."

Honestly it should justify a permaban from the entire site. That thread was absolutely pathetic.

I knew Hexbear had given in to being plague rats when there was massive discourse^TM^ 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.

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.

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.

I agree