[x86x87]

Did it though? I remember the whole "muh body! No masks" entitled attitude. I also remember people literally dismissing the vaccine - a tech wonder - because Bill Gates.

The world did not come together. It was a shirt show. If the world came together we would have burried Covid sooner and with less people dying.

[daveslash]

I don't know where esotericsean and x86x87 are from.... Being from different parts of the world could explain different perspectives. But here in the U.S.....is was a real shit show as x86 said. It was definitely not "coming together" by any stretch. COVID made us feel more divided than we were before the pandemic.

[x86x87]

87 comes after 86. There is nothing special about it. Something i made up when registering the account

Yup. I'm in the US. Yup it's a mess :(

[mort96]

On a much more systemic level, the whole global patent and intellectual property system worked to ensure that countries who would have been able to create vaccines themselves instead had to rely on ordering vaccines from the few companies with the IP rights, drastically limiting vaccine rollout. Literally putting corporate profit above the lives of millions and the well-being of billions.

[rescripting]

Those people were certainly loud, but also certainly in the minority when you look at the % of people who actually got vaccinated.

Rage gets engagement, algorithms boost the wild opinions and soon it feels like everyone is taking crazy pillS, but that is just your feed trying to keep you doom scrolling.

[x86x87]

I member a time when most adults would have somewhat reasonable opinions and we could have a discussion about a specific issue without jumping to "you're a <insert political party>" therefore you suck, therefore your opinion is bad.

Nowadays I hear straight up batshit crazy things all the time. All the time.

It used to be that if you had crazy ideas you would receive feedback that you're crazy and people would not want to associate with you. Nowadays instead of thinking about it you just double down. Other nuts are coming out of the woodwork and all of a sudden "we have to consider all points of view". We cater to the lowest common denominator and entertain things that should be summarily dismissied.