Senator Paula Simons🇨🇦I spent a fun & fascinating morning at CN’s Walker Yard, in Edmonton’s Calder neighbourhood, the busiest rail yard in Canada. At harvest time, they routinely handle 6000-7000 cars a day. Their engine shop can service up to 27 locomotives. #TRCM #CN #Edmonton #yeg #Calder #trains #rail #SenateofCanada
Interesting. I posted these same pictures on FB and got absolutely pummelled with furious and abusive posts. Why? Because I am seen wearing a mask. Such fury - people mocking me for being ugly, people calling me “it” and “he”, people shrieking about the WEF, people calling for the abolition of the Senate, because one senator wore a mask in a group setting. I finally started deleting and even, for the nastiest comments, blocking, which I rarely, almost never, do. Just wild. #Covid19 #Facebook
My FB posts rarely get much engagement these days. This one went through the roof, with dozens & dozens of angry comments from anti maskers. I’m curious, algorithmically, about how that works. Is there some AI set up that looks for images of people in masks, and pops them into the feeds of anti mask folks to provoke response? Or is it just that one or two people post abuse and then share their posts with their others and it grows virally? But I’ve been posting masked photos for months. Why now?
Serendipity@Paulatics Surge of anti-maskers now that they are being recommended again during the Covid uptick. Add the political fireball of upcoming elections in the U.S. But still not a good explanation for why people are defying science and their own well-being!