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We went from two weeks to flatten the curve to do as we tell you to or get locked out of your own bank account.

@thj i guess i kind of get why norwegians trust their government and public institutions: you have a climate where things like nrkbeta.no/bittorrent/ and yr.no with it's free apis are done. giving away such things at this high quality is still largely unheard of here in germany. it's really a different culture.

@Hibou @verretor soon: "they killed their own kids, there was nothing we could do"
Young healthy people getting vaccinated is a POLITICAL ACT far more than it is a medical one. Every time someone gets vaccinated, or even boosted, they are voting for mandates. Politicians all over the world use vaccination uptake data as justification for mandates. "Look mandates work, more people got vaccinated". I specifically saw the Canadian government cite low uptake of boosters as the reason they didn't mandate it.

If it wasn't for the situation, I wouldn't ever discourage someone from getting vaccinated, since it is their own private decision. But because it is a political act more than a medical one, I do discourage it. If you get vaccinated without specific comorbidity, you are voting against civil rights.

Vaxxtards like to talk about "manning up", implying people are scared of needles or something. I could just as easily say "man up" in the face of catching COVID for the sake of the greater good.

the only thing somewhat comforting is that the fuckers in power really seem.to have crossed a line too much. there's a considerable amount of people in the west who will never trust their governments anymore. this is great, as government is to serve, not to reign.

@bonifartius the tolkien shit is especially upsetting because they're making a mockery of his values. at least george lucas is still alive to say "yeah sure that's okay" or "stop it, not cool jaybrams" -- tolkien is being, shall we say, appropriated by people who want him and his work to be reduced to another mindless symbol of political correctness. there's "death of the author" but then there's "insulting everything the author held dear and pissing on his grave"

@SebastianGallehr
Da es eine Schulanwesenheits-Pflicht und keine Bildungspflicht ist sind manche Schulabgänger der facto Analphabeten, und die gelernte Sozialkompetenz zeigt sich in "nach oben buckeln nach unten treten", "mobbe mit oder du wirst gemobbt" und "jeder arbeitet für sich allein" (alles andere wäre ja Abschreiben und du kriegst keine gute Note, für die alles geopfert wird incl. Neugierde, Wissensdrang und intrinsische Motivation). Sorry, no. @lorbeerbund

yall i am thinking these people might be a little bit (gasp!) petit-bourgeois
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