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The revolt against reality: Harassment of scientists is escalating (onlysky.media)

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From COVID-19 to climate change, scientists are facing a flood of hate mail, threats and harassment from conspiracy theorists.

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[–] melroy@kbin.melroy.org 0 points 3 years ago (5 children)

Hate emails and threads are never OK. In their defense, what happened during the COVID-19 lock downs wasn't OK. How we treated each other was not ok. How we excluded and refused people just like that was not ok. And how the government could wield so much power was just scary to watch.

Rent off.

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[–] NotAPenguin@kbin.social 27 points 3 years ago (4 children)

What are you referring to when you say "what happened during the COVID-19 lock downs wasn't OK."?

Mandating that people act safely during a global pandemic is definitely okay.

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[+] nicetriangle@kbin.social 16 points 3 years ago (2 children)

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[–] melroy@kbin.melroy.org 2 points 3 years ago (1 child)

l'm not an anti vaxer. I however couldn't take the vaccine due to my illness. But there was no room for those exceptions. I was threaded horribly within my country (Netherlands).

For example, I couldn't even sit down and order something to drink on very very hot day.

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[+] nicetriangle@kbin.social 14 points 3 years ago

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[–] melroy@kbin.melroy.org 1 point 3 years ago

I want to believe you. See also my comment below.

I rather don't like to go further in detail. I just closed this topic for myself.

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