The pandemic has changed the shape of global happiness
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#4The most annoying thing to me is that when one critiques lockdown policy (which by the way is unique to the west, Korea for example never had a lockdown [1]), one is labeled as selfish, anti-science, and lumped into the Trump-supporting right wing camp. It feels like having an honest discussion isn't even possible without being downvote bombed to the point where your comment gets censored (especially on extremely one-sided sites like Reddit), so I just gave up.
Although COVID-19 has improved a lot of things for office workers who didn't lose their jobs, life has become a miserable shadow of what it once was. As someone who's spent the last 3 years living a nomadic lifestyle traveling the world, now I'm severely limited in where I can go, and anywhere I go life isn't the same - people wearing masks, distancing and avoiding eye contact, half of local businesses closed, fear.
And now someone's going to reply to me saying "don't you know there's a pandemic! How could you be so selfish as to complain about not being able to travel when people are dying." And that's exactly my point.
[1] EDIT: I meant to say that many of the Asian countries hailed as role models in handling the pandemic - South Korea, Taiwan, etc - never had to resort to lockdowns. Meanwhile the U.S. had strict lockdowns and Europe is still practically shut down. This makes it even more absurd to me that one isn't allowed to question lockdowns without being labeled some selfish Trump anti-vaxxer.
Re: The pandemic has changed the shape of global happiness
#5Submitted this 5 days ago https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26507443
Re: The pandemic has changed the shape of global happiness
#6Submitted this 5 days ago https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26507443
So? Do you need more points?
Re: The pandemic has changed the shape of global happiness
#7The most annoying thing to me is that when one critiques lockdown policy (which by the way is unique to the west, Korea for example never had a lockdown [1]), one is labeled as selfish, anti-science, and lumped into the Trump-supporting right wing camp. It feels like having an honest discussion isn't even possible without being downvote bombed to the point where your comment gets censored (especially on extremely one…
Lock down or not, people aren't going to go about their normal lives when hospitals are beyond capacity due to the pandemic.
Maybe in that scenario, without corresponding lock downs, life wouldn't be as miserable but you don't know that.
Re: The pandemic has changed the shape of global happiness
#8The most annoying thing to me is that when one critiques lockdown policy (which by the way is unique to the west, Korea for example never had a lockdown [1]), one is labeled as selfish, anti-science, and lumped into the Trump-supporting right wing camp. It feels like having an honest discussion isn't even possible without being downvote bombed to the point where your comment gets censored (especially on extremely one…
> which by the way is unique to the west
The idea came from China and was considered unthinkable here when they did it. India also locked down. Friends in Ghana also told me that they locked down.
Re: The pandemic has changed the shape of global happiness
#9Submitted this 5 days ago https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26507443
So? Do you need more points?
Do you? Perhaps. My cursory interest is in the fact that the URLs appear identical. Usually when resubmitting things HN will just change the submission to vote up the last instance. Maybe the issues on the server this week have allowed dupes.
Re: The pandemic has changed the shape of global happiness
#10The most annoying thing to me is that when one critiques lockdown policy (which by the way is unique to the west, Korea for example never had a lockdown [1]), one is labeled as selfish, anti-science, and lumped into the Trump-supporting right wing camp. It feels like having an honest discussion isn't even possible without being downvote bombed to the point where your comment gets censored (especially on extremely one…
> which by the way is unique to the west The idea came from China and was considered unthinkable here when they did it. India also locked down. Friends in Ghana also told me that they locked down.
Ok I stand corrected and should've been more explicit. What I meant was that the east Asian countries hailed as role models - South Korea, Taiwan, etc - never had to resort to lockdowns. Meanwhile Europe is practically shut down, the U.S. had very harsh lockdowns, etc.