Drug overdoses are soaring during the coronavirus pandemic

Re:Drug overdoses are soaring during the coronavirus pandemic by ideals on Thursday July 02, 2020 @06:25PM (#23718821)

This time period also seems to be radicalizing people at an accelerated rate. After that USAF military police sergeant murdered a cop and federal security officer I started investigating some of these communities and they're growing. Not just the right-wing "race war" types either. Both sides of the political spectrum are growing their radicalized bases.

The communists and the facists types are both radicalizing around anti-government sentiment more than anything and we've seen real lives lost as a result.

I hope things get better but everything is increasing in polarization at a time when people have a lot of free time and a country being consumed by an out of control virus that has been politicized.

It's a recipe for disaster.

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Re:Drug overdoses are soaring during the coronavirus pandemic by joshspankit on Thursday July 02, 2020 @06:40PM (#23718937)

Just please watch out: the polarization you see on the internet (no matter where you see it) is rarely a reflection of the face-to-face reality. There is much more kindness and tolerance when people are face to face. Always has been.

The danger, the reason I point this out, is that when people see too much of it on the internet they start to lose faith in humanity, and they start projecting that world view on to the face to face interactions.

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Re:Drug overdoses are soaring during the coronavirus pandemic by rwnspace on Thursday July 02, 2020 @07:04PM (#23719087)

There are some societal functions, some conversations which cannot be conducted over the Internet. And the rest of them probably ought not to be.

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