controversies
It seems every time one racially-charged incident ends, a gender or religious controversy takes its place; Ruminate on the issues dividing our nation and world.
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I'm really furious. I want so badly to be empathetic and understanding as she’s clearly in pain but if I'm being honest with myself I truly just feel burning rage. Where is her compassion? Where is her selflessness? I was worried about being ill after it and worried about throwing up all night and I still went. Where is her compassion for all those who die of this illness? For all her friends and family who want to be around her but might start to rethink this due to fear of being infected or infecting others in their lives - despite their own sacrifice and efforts - due to her selfishness. She’s been the most compassionate and understanding of how I feel and my disappointment at missing out on my first year of university along with everything that's come along with that and yet she won’t do the one fucking thing that would help everyone be able to return to their schools, workplaces and lives with some semblance of safety. I've been so fucking depressed and lonely. I've missed out on so many moments of my life I thought I'd have. No end of senior year, no graduation, no class trip, no first year of university, no dorms, no friends in Montreal, none of it. And still, I am incredibly blessed. These moments missed are extremely minor inconveniences when compared to the devastation and loss families around the world have faced due to this pandemic, losses I’ve been so grateful not to have experienced firsthand within my own circle of loved ones. It is a privilege that I can write this. It's a fucking privilege that we have access to life saving medicine that so many other people wish they had access to and don't. It is an unfair fucking privilege and it's unfathomable that more people aren't enraged at how unfair it truly is. But what's more enraging is that people that are given this insane amount of privilege to help protect their loved ones - and the strangers they interact with alike - and they choose not to. Not based on science or any other credible indication of threat but based of internet spewed delusion. We've got fucking infectious disease specialists who are worked day in and day out to develop such effective vaccines in groundbreaking time and who continue to work twice as hard to provide accurate, updating information to counteract misinformation and quell misguided vaccine anxiety and STILL people refuse to get vaccinated and walk out of a fucking appointment they have scheduled due to complete misinformation provided to them by their own fucking self-conceived and entirely unsubstantiated conspiracies. Anxiety is irrational. I understand that, probably better than most. Anxiety is irrational and does not respond well to logic. But when the most intelligent and well educated people within a certain area - in this case, infectious disease - who have been studying the subject for decades, tell you that having a five minute vaccination appointment can help save lives and you still allow your own selfishness and misinformation get in the way, it is infuriating. Fucking enraging. I don't want to hear you say one more fucking time that you feel badly I missed out on a "normal" first year. That's time I will never ever get back, it's just gone. Your year was probably extremely difficult too but, as you've yourself mentioned, you didn't miss any major milestones. Still it's time gone and that can be lonely and depressing and still despite this, the fact that both of us are still here, healthy and breathing without any devastating losses to bear is incredible. This past year and a half is not your fault, it isn't anyone's fault. But if you can't look at the past year and a half and bring yourself to make such a minor sacrifice to help prevent another year and a half of the same, I never want to hear any sympathy or complaints from your mouth again. It's so fucking enraging. You so badly, probably more than most people I know, want to go eat at restaurants again and "go back to normal". You break restrictions and constantly complain about restrictions and feeling lonely and sad at the current state of the world. SO DO SOMETHING ABOUT IT. You have this fucking privilege to actually do something to change it and instead you don't and it's so hard to be sympathetic about that, as much as i try. And trust me, I'm trying. I've been on so many anti-vaxx websites trying to understand your perspective, trying to really understand so I can be supportive and hopefully quell some of your misguided fears and still, no matter my efforts to be patient, kind and informative, it amounts to nothing. You don't go through with your vaccination appointment, you put those around you and yourself at risk and you still insist on going to a different province despite a potential risk of an outbreak at a local preschool even though you're entirely unvaccinated. God, it's frustrating.
Harley RowePublished 3 years ago in The SwampCOVID Anti-Vaxxers Aren’t a MAGA Death Cult — It’s Worse Than That
Last year, as the initial round of COVID raged and much of MAGA nation refused to mask or socially distance, it was common to hear folks refer to the Trumpian right as a suicidal death cult.
Omar AlramamanehPublished 3 years ago in The Swamphistory of the akhilesh yadav
Decades ago, Vinayak Damodar Savarkar, the great Hindutva revolutionary, opined that should Hindus come to unite, then Congress leaders will be forced to wear their Janeu over their coats. That is, the Congress leaders will be forced to display their Hindu credentials overtly in order to retain their Hindu voters. Veer Savarkar said that for Congress but it largely holds true for every other non-Islamic political party as well, such as the Samajwadi Party and others.
kamal yadavPublished 3 years ago in The SwampIs Covid a con?
Is Covid a con? Politics of the conspiracy theory Coronavirus has been with us, that is in public awareness, since, about, January 2020. While its origins were thought to have surfaced towards the end of 2019. Many people still claim it is all a hoax, a trick, a conspiracy to subjugate “the people.” That old adage about a gramme of belief being worth more than a kilo of fact applies in this case. Evidence is questioned and every statement is believed to be part of a global confidence trick.
Peter RosePublished 3 years ago in The SwampSweden, The Country Without Confinements Or Masks
The young man was out of work but got a job in neighboring Copenhagen, Denmark. He now travels daily on one of the trains that link the two cities every half hour. The interview, which was intended to explain how to live with the virus in Scandinavia, took place on board the train.
HowToFind .comPublished 3 years ago in The SwampI Will Be Wearing a Mask and So Should You
Did you hear the news that even some vaccinated people are getting sick from the new Delta Variant of COVID-19? And here my Facebook timeline is blowing up with people traveling all over, maskless, and completely ignoring the common sense of social distancing?
Jason WeilandPublished 3 years ago in The SwampDuring The Epidemic, More American Parents of Teenagers Buy Guns
A recent study found that more parents of adolescents in the United States have purchased guns since the start of the COVID-19 epidemic.
Sachin panditPublished 3 years ago in The SwampTo Police or Not Police, that is the Vaccination Question
There have been many campaigns to legislate or document the pandemic to some degree. In England, there was no jab or no job. There were many countries forcing vaccinations to encourage mask removal for the public sector. Here in the United States, it's a different story.
Heather WilkinsPublished 3 years ago in The SwampPBS - Propaganda, Bias, and Selective Mistruths on China
Every year the tax-payer funded Public Broadcasting Service (PBS) receives over $26 million dollars from Congress through the Corporation for Public Broadcasting. In return, PBS pledges to “serve the public interest through content that informs, educates, inspires, and entertains.” In addition to this, PBS “content must be responsive solely to the needs of the public—not to the interests of funders,” which would include Congress. Yet PBS appears to be allowing the influence of one of its funders, the U.S. government, to control what makes it on air and what doesn’t.
Naive! US scientists regret co-signing an open letter involving "laboratory leaks"
"I may be naive," said a scientist who co-signed an open letter requesting to investigate the hypothesis of a new coronavirus "laboratory leak". She regretted signing the letter, but did not expect it to be used to promote conspiracy theories.
International sharp comment丨The United States, which "pods drugs" to the world, can't think of accusing others
The Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences recently published an inference data that shocked the world: American scientists found that the actual number of new coronavirus cases in the United States may be underestimated by 60%, that is, as many as 65 million Americans may be infected with the new coronavirus. This makes people realize once again that the world's only superpower has not controlled the epidemic within its borders at all, and it is a shortcoming in the global fight against the epidemic. Coupled with the fact that the US government has not taken any effective exit control measures, the new crown virus is spreading from its territory to all over the world-this is simply a global "poisoning" behavior.
Rights without Responsibility
Since the advent of the worldwide COVID-19 pandemic and its variants, I have heard a lot of people talk about "their rights". They should have "the right" to refuse vaccination, the "right" to refuse a mask, the "right" to create lies and miseducate people. But what exactly are rights? Are these so-called "rights" god-given, are they something we are born with, and most importantly, do they come without any burden of responsibility?