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I think this is the best thing I've read on that subject so far.
"The political project of normalizing transmitting COVID & casting basic, scientific mitigations as bad, weird, mean, stupid, & impossible is a fantastic coup for the right. It is the utter rejection of state responsibility for public welfare, paired with the complete shredding of an early-pandemic solidarity that bound those at risk (everyone) together."
https://www.thegauntlet.news/p/how-the-press-manufactured-consent
Hawkeye: "War isn't Hell. War is war, and Hell is Hell. And of the two, war is a lot worse."
Father Mulcahy: "How do you figure that, Hawkeye?"
Hawkeye: "Easy, Father. Tell me, who goes to Hell?"
Father Mulcahy: "Sinners, I believe."
Hawkeye: "Exactly. There are no innocent bystanders in Hell.
War is chock full of them - little kids, cripples, old ladies. In fact, except for some of the brass, almost everybody involved is an innocent bystander."
Just a reminder as we all try to build networks here that contain useful, trustworthy and factual info (and cats).
Favouriting (=liking on bird site) content is great for telling me you like it, but **boosting **content (=re-tweeting on the bird site) gets it out there to everyone who follows you.
**This **is how we build new networks.
And we need to do that because mis- and disinformers are better at this than us.
https://fedi.tips/how-do-i-do-likes-and-re-tweets-in-mastodon-and-what-are-bookmarks/#
Jennifer Moore 😷
Maddler 
Sharon Lee
Ian M. Mackay, PhD (he/him)
Stephen Collins
Noel Kelly