‘I hope you die’: how the Covid pandemic unleashed attacks on scientists

Re:‘I hope you die’: how the Covid pandemic unleashed attack... by dangerlibrary on Friday October 15, 2021 @11:20AM (#28878689)

This is why you shouldn't ask me for advice! You should ask a professional. Unfortunately in this situation, the professional's advice was not just bad (as mine apparently was), but potentially deadly - and that's the problem I am lamenting in the original comment.

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Re:‘I hope you die’: how the Covid pandemic unleashed attack... by throwaway0a5e on Friday October 15, 2021 @11:45AM (#28879014)

The default professional advice for people who are worried about being assaulted more or less starts at "glawk fawty" and goes up/down from there depending on what details you add and how they change the situation. The police officer basically gave her the canned default advice.

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Re:‘I hope you die’: how the Covid pandemic unleashed attack... by dangerlibrary on Friday October 15, 2021 @11:51AM (#28879081)

But like ... that's bad! That's exactly my point.

Not that this particular police officer gave particularly bad advice, but that this idea - that adding more guns solves public safety problems - is so pervasive and _so wrong_.

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