[bigcorp-slave]

How can you sleep at night? There are literally millions of dead and you are letting these right wing trolls opposed to medical care run freely over this site behind this fig leaf of civility.

Five minutes ago on the front page there was a post about the new NYC executive order with multiple comments calling for the murder of scientists. Not saying history will remember them badly, calling for their murder. This is sick, and you’re helping it. It is time to stop coddling these people who are actively trying to prolong the pandemic.

Every day on this site I see dozens of comments that are pushing a lethal agenda of preventing common sense public health actions like vaccination and masking. Making your predominant concern enforcement of tone is enabling mass death. Normally the moderation on HN is pretty good and evenhanded, but on this topic for some reason you seem to be pretty okay with people calling for the deaths of innocents as long as they do it with nice words. It has been ALMOST TWO YEARS! Every step of the way these people have tried to poison the well of public discourse. First it was a liberal hoax, then it was going away any day, then it was the flu, then it was “it’s only in blue cities so let it kill them”, then it was China did it, then it was lockdowns are bad, masks are bad, now it is vaccines are bad. The constant drumbeat of bad faith opposition to getting this catastrophe under control needs to stop - how can you not be exhausted by it?