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The UK ended the lockdown on Dec 5th and moved to a mythical tiered system. You can literally see it in the graphs already. Clearly for reasons only people living there can understand, lockdowns will not work there in their current form.
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I can only assume that like many other Western nations, there is something about their society that is fundamentally broken. Those fractures in society are easily exploited as we've seen over the last four years in the US, UK and Canada...
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countries I feel informed enough to speak on. These countries have all experienced a massive fracturing largely inflamed by social media, conspiracy influencers and foreign meddling.
This year, on top of that, we didn't stand chance against a pandemic under those....
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This year, on top of that, we didn't stand chance against a pandemic under those....
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conditions.
This year has exposed a great deal of ugliness. Economists have been fearmongering for nearly 12 months about how measures taken to combat the pandemic will cause damage that will echo across decades...
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This year has exposed a great deal of ugliness. Economists have been fearmongering for nearly 12 months about how measures taken to combat the pandemic will cause damage that will echo across decades...
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which is nonsense, but personally I think a greater damage has been done.
The prevelance of apathy towards one another as a society that has been exposed by this pandemic is the real tragedy in my opinion.
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The prevelance of apathy towards one another as a society that has been exposed by this pandemic is the real tragedy in my opinion.
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We have always lived with a level of apathy towards each other partially just to be able to cope with reality. We can't be expected to collapse into despair at the sight of every homeless person or the news of every tragedy but as the great MLK....
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put it "the arc of the moral universe is long, but it bends toward justice," and I tend to believe that. We bend it towards justice, ever slowly, but we do it and it's what we strive for.
I this year has been heavy on the "long" part of that arc. If anything will take...
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I this year has been heavy on the "long" part of that arc. If anything will take...
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long to recover from, it will be the knowledge that so many of us don't seem to give a fuck about each other at all. While there is this desperation to return to normalcy, I can't help but realize that that normalcy depends on the company of others, many of which have...
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revealed themselves to be heartless, selfish nihilists who I have no interest in getting on with. When this pandemic finally recedes are to just let bygones be bygones. Will a suspicion of one another linger, will a cruel undertone linger? Will we harden in other ways?
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At present I find myself longing for a reality that doesn't exist anymore. I've seen too much. I know too much about the public for whom I long to be close too.
I've never had the trust in authority or government that is considered a given in Sweden, in fact I've always..
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I've never had the trust in authority or government that is considered a given in Sweden, in fact I've always..
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considered the burden of proof to be on them prove they are not corrupt. I've loosely framed my understanding as "it's us, the public, against them, whoever is in power, and it's our job to hold them accountable." But now, I don't know who "us," is anymore.
