Keep them buried and dead I say, they always ended up as a cluster fuck by the time they were locked.
I think if we all stay civil and don't resort to personal insults it's fine. There were some good debates on them, but the mods shut them down.
They won’t stay civil.
Maybe we have separate definitions of civil. I am a fan of disagreeing and arguing with people with different viewpoints, it's fun.
I like to think that I was one of the more neutral and level headed posters in those COVID threads. That being the case the following was directed at me:
- I was told my wife hates humanity because she wants a child and was hesitant to get vaccinated because she wants to get pregnant.
- I was also told my wife wants to the pandemic go on and wants people to suffer because she was hesitant to get a vaccine. (Worth noting; my wife is a health care worker)
- In the original thread I was told that I was selfish and didn’t care about others because I didn’t “enjoy” wearing a mask.
Now I’m just the tip of the iceberg with those threads. Perhaps we can discuss COVID in our private lives or even in a work setting, but we have failed miserably here as a group in doing so. Why do we need another COVID thread after both failed so spectacularly?
It probably is worth noting that most of us (one way or another) have started to move on and resume normalcy in our lives. In fact, one of the largest road meets in a very long time was just held out east. We should be talking about things like that and not more COVID topics.