It's a sad state of affairs when online comment sections have become an integral part of the social cohesion (such as it is) of a society.

In my opinion, the current state of our response to Covid shows that the social cohesion of society has already been destroyed, mostly by pigeonholing everyone into neat little online boxes.

The corporate press doesn't care about being "called out" in an online comments section.

Real-life cohesion is incredibly more powerful than anything online.