Posted: Sat Aug 29, 2020 11:27am
Posts can be deemed offensive for many reasons, not necessarily because they contain bad language or name calling. People's views can cause offence (as evidenced by the burgeoning number of anti-racist movements who find some people's views extremely offensive). If people post things that are intentionally provocative, just to stir up trouble for the 'fun' of it as seems to be the case here, then some people are going to have the reaction that was intended.
Maybe the admin(s) on here have lost a family member or close friend due to Covid-19 and find someone posting about the virus being a made up concept, and it's all a government (which ones?) plot to be not very helpful. It is also extremely disrespectful to all the medical staff who have been working flat out trying to treat patients and save lives (how they do this for a nonexistent virus is hard to understand.)
The poster also assumes a level of superiority over the extremely knowledgeable scientists and researchers worldwide who are desperately trying to find a vaccine to prevent this apparently fabricated threat.
And calling people "sheeple" who choose to follow government advice and wear masks to help protect others is a form of name calling. Are all the Spanish children who will be required to wear masks when they go back to school "sheeple" too?
Everyone is entitled to their opinion but needlessly upsetting people who have made sacrifices and lost loved ones, by posting on a local forum is perhaps not the best place to express it.
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