From COVID-19 to climate change, scientists are facing a flood of hate mail, threats and harassment from conspiracy theorists.
From COVID-19 to climate change, scientists are facing a flood of hate mail, threats and harassment from conspiracy theorists.
Hate emails and threads are never OK. In their defense, what happened during the COVID-19 lock downs wasn’t OK. How we treated each other was not ok. How we excluded and refused people just like that was not ok. And how the government could wield so much power was just scary to watch.
Rent off.
What are you referring to when you say “what happened during the COVID-19 lock downs wasn’t OK.”?
Mandating that people act safely during a global pandemic is definitely okay.
Yeah people in charge didn’t get everything totally right but they were doing what they could with the information available to them. So sick of anti vaxer griefing.
l’m not an anti vaxer. I however couldn’t take the vaccine due to my illness. But there was no room for those exceptions. I was threaded horribly within my country (Netherlands).
For example, I couldn’t even sit down and order something to drink on very very hot day.
From a policy perspective, what’s more important?
A) Letting people who for whatever reason didn’t get the vaccine have a drink at a terrace
or
B) Preventing people who are unvaccinated from either spreading or catching the virus when community spread is still very much a thing and hospitals are overwhelmed?
I was in the Netherlands for part of the lockdowns and I definitely recall the news of hospitals around the country being under a lot of strain. I think your situation in particular sucks and the lockdowns were pretty awful to go through, but I think just letting everyone raw dog it and then let the hospital system collapse would have been extremely irresponsible. And the gemeente would have caught hell for that too.
I want to believe you. See also my comment below.
I rather don’t like to go further in detail. I just closed this topic for myself.