The videos coming out of China show that the simmering rage has now reached a boil. What triggered it? Sure there's the growing frustration with gratuitous Zero Covid lockdowns, but the timing of the World Cup is revealing. In live broadcasts, Chinese citizens saw large crowds
@mfl_normal @MsMelChen Some of these people protesting will get Covid; some will get long Covid. But just as with the George Floyd protests, sometimes the injustice is so great, it is worth risking your health
@mfl_normal @MsMelChen Your children missed school. But they were not killed by the police. You were not locked into your house or threatened with prison. Try to get some sense of proportion. We have all suffered in one way or another
@tdietterich @mfl_normal @MsMelChen You think the George Floyd protests were reasoned reactions to legitimate injustice? And you think that the degree of reaction was acceptable?
@tdietterich @mfl_normal @MsMelChen Fortunately the risks are far lower outside
@tdietterich @mfl_normal @MsMelChen Thank you for clarifying that the injustice of having 10 of your entrapped community burned alive is worth protesting for - even at the risk of getting the sniffles and feeling a bit groggy
@tdietterich @mfl_normal @MsMelChen dude everyone has already had covid. and got over it....
@tdietterich @mfl_normal @MsMelChen Long covid is a lie
@tdietterich @mfl_normal @MsMelChen The problem wasn't that the George Floyd protestors took personal risks. That should be fine in a free society. The problem was that the establishment didn't punish the George Floyd protestors at all while they punished everyone else severely for even the smallest infraction.
@tdietterich @mfl_normal @MsMelChen So who should be allowed to take that call? Government? People themselves?
@tdietterich @mfl_normal @MsMelChen Oh ok, so it’s ok so long as it’s politics you agree with? Some will catch a cold, some will have some ongoing symptoms from that cold.