alt Hacker News> so that you can be a positive member of the community.
I'll bite and argue that the parent is a totally positive new member of the community, by the virtue of demonstrating the right attitude to this old beaten biohazard doomsday scarecrow.
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Thank you for your argument. I'm not personally interested in rehashing complaints about covid response, but it is nonetheless a nontrivial, good-faith contribution.
My previous comment was a welcome and guidance on good posting here on HN, simply restating what the community posting guidelines[0] already say.
In general, comments like "I don't care about this post", with nothing else added, aren't particularly constructive, nor are posts complaining that people downvoted them[1][2] (which the HN community guidelines also politely and specifically ask posters to avoid). Such feelings are better served by flagging and/or moving on.
Anyhow, thanks for your contributions. Sincerely, a fellow hacker, and fellow human equal to you and equalled by you.
0 – https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
Tell that to the millions of people who suffer from long COVID that a warning about potentially deadly viruses is just a “old beaten biohazard scarecrow”. We don’t even know all the consequences of infection with COVID-19 yet, and that includes for people who had it but “it was just a bad cold”. Humans are incapable of intuitively judging the risks of things they can’t immediately see or feel, which is why we rely on rigorous science to do otherwise. Certainly, this is an event that members of the community can find of interest or of concern, _especially_ those members not living in a Western country or those who are immunocompromised.