People seem to be more worried about the Russians, thanks to the media, which are owned by the 1% 🤔

I’m surprised there still are student visa applicants

If they can already rule out glaucoma, which is the n⁰1 cause of blindness, then that’s at least something very positive. Retina should be checked as well (OCT), but they probably did already.

Well, in my case it’s high pressure, which can also lead to blindness. But it’s being treated and hopefully will stay stable for a while, there’s no real cure for these things.

I’m no stranger to ocular health issues myself, so I hope you’re in good medical hands, they can do a lot these days! I wish you the best and also a successful migration!

No they shouldn’t

A life threatening, highly contagious epidemic, is NOT the time for “open debate”!

Of course it is, unless you advocate authoritarianism

Sheesh, this wins today’s “Stupidest comment on the Internet” award.

I didn’t realize it’s ok here to insult people

I can see that reading comprehension is not your forte

I am indeed from Europe, where streets were at times completely empty and at other times you had to walk in designated lanes. Mask mandates everywhere and unvaccinated people were ostracized.

I wrote that it was a real crisis and I didn’t use the term “brainwash”. The fact that people complied to official guidelines is of course a good thing in the event of a pandemic. But there was also overshooting. Not everything made sense. And there was definitely a lack of critical thinking and an absence of open debate. But my point is that it was apparently possible to create a high degree of conformity from above, a useful insight when you’re trying to eradicate democracy and supplant it by fascism. How else would you explain the ease of what has been described as a coup for the past 5 months?

What strikes me about the covid epidemic was how obedient people were. It showed that it was possible to shut down whole societies on a global scale. It was a real crisis that provided an unexpected opportunity for mass propaganda. Political strategists surely took notice. It must have looked possible then to submit a whole population into fascism and that’s what we’re seeing now. Real power is with the people though. It lays dormant and it merely needs to be awakened by a timely spark.

Gee, that’s kinda disappointing to hear, as I’ve specifically curated things such that users should be able to merrily browse content all the way back to day one. Is it tedious because of the stuff you’re seeing which simply doesn’t interest you at all, or…?

I must have given the wrong impression. I highly value your posts and I look forward to go through the entire collection. I am a bit struggling with all the lemmy and piefed stuff, but I’ll figure it out. I’ve created a piefed account and it looks promising. By the way, I really like your writing style, it’s very refreshing in this current age of Al generated trash.

I’m new to lemmy and this community. Currently using Voyager. I can search throught the +500 posts with keywords, which is great. Jerboa does not seem to have this search function. I hope the content will remain available like this as I thought that was the whole point of lemmy. I’m not sure how else I can interact with it. Browsing would be tedious, but a randomizer could be useful, if that were possible.