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Re:The San Francisco Bay Area shelter-in-place order is bein... by exmadscientist on Monday April 27, 2020 @06:37PM (#23000943)
The hive mind is terrifying in general. It's bad here, too.

There are mindless zombies arguing for endless quarantine and nothing else will do.

There are mindless zombies arguing that lockdown must end immediately or their freedoms will be irrevocably harmed.

What happened to reason? What happened to recognizing that this lockdown is awful, but useful, and we need to make an intelligent decision about when it ends? There are good reasons to end it now. There are good reasons to extend it for years. The right answer is somewhere in the middle, and only reasonable humans are going to be able to find it.

Mindless hive zombies are not welcome in my world.

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Re:The San Francisco Bay Area shelter-in-place order is bein... by mumblemumble on Monday April 27, 2020 @06:41PM (#23000970)
They key thing to remember is that the bulk of the voices contributing to comment sections on the Internet are those of people who spend a lot of time time posting comments on the Internet.

(Yes, I know what that implies about mine, too.)

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Re:The San Francisco Bay Area shelter-in-place order is bein... by anm89 on Monday April 27, 2020 @09:06PM (#23002190)
I totally acknowledge this is true, it's just hard to quantify. I really do wonder exactly how common the consensus reddit views are.
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