And let me add this. The social media sites like reddit/twitter/hackernews act as places to 'safely contain' people with such potential.
Because it gives them the feeling of doing something, but its effects does not cross out into the real world. Even if it come down to that, these people can be quickly silenced in the online world, and they wouldn't know what to do, apart from commenting/tweeting..
As someone said, it's humanly to make mistakes, but to really fuck it up, you need computers. Ah the gift of the internet!
It is a fantastic piece of marketing when you can label people who are not buying your product as some kind of "bad person"
I have a question for people who think that people should accept vaccination for the benefit of the community. Typically when such a thing is asked for, community also offers something in return..
Is there any effort to retroactively count the actual Covid deaths? Because it appears that it could be greatly inflated because of the following practice as described in this press meet..
>Q Can you talk about your concerns about deaths being misreported by coronavirus because of either testing or standards for how they’re characterized?
>DR. BIRX: So, I think, in this country, we’ve taken a very liberal approach to mortality, and I think the reporting here has been pretty straightforward over the last five to six weeks. Prior to that, when there wasn’t testing in January and February, that’s a very different situation and unknown. There are other countries that if you had a pre-existing condition and let’s say the virus caused you to go to the ICU and then have a heart or kidney problem — some countries are recording that as a heart issue or a kidney issue and not a COVID-19 death. Right now, we’re still recording it, and we’ll — I mean, the great thing about having forms that come in and a form that has the ability to mark it as COVID-19 infection — the intent is, right now, that those — if someone dies with COVID-19, we are counting that as a COVID-19 death.