#712
Posted 28 July 2021 - 05:29 AM
Anyone been following how hard my country in particular has been fucking itself up its own ass lately? You basically need a QR code proving that you've been vaccinated to go to any public place now (let alone travel). That's including work places, and since it's constitutionally illegal to fire someone for refusing a vaccine, they are enforcing it by having people keep working but for no pay (which surely has to be just as illegal somewhere). Some hospitals are going on unlimited strikes, and shops and restaurants are calling for their own boycott as no economy flow for a few days should be better for them long term than, from now on, only ever being able to receive a quarter of their usual clientele. It's the first time I'm seeing a French president lose face and credibility in the eye of literally most everyone in the country regardless of all typical political orientations, and running with it, working his way around the constitution like a full-on tyrant. Not only aren't the vaccines a miraculous solution right now, but very oddly (but not surprisingly) enough, the police is exempted from all those regulations, meaning it might actually become the number one spreading agent of this shit in the long run. In the meantime, dude is off to Polynesia to give distant, patronizing speeches on selfishness when he himself refuses the vaccine, although he just ordered two billion doses. Millions of people are protesting against the situation, although reports only indicate 160.000 nation-wide (which is ridiculous) and the demonstrations are repressed as firmly as the ones against the recent laws prohibiting filming the police were just a few months ago. Shit is absolutely fucked.
Also censorship report (and the drop of water that tipped the vase and drove me to write this post), but Instagram (and so I reckon Facebook, etc.) now blocks the potential spreading of just questioning the governmental marketing of the vaccines. For work I was just having to share Instagram stories which were 200% not Covid related (nor political) at all, but just so happened to comprise the word 'dose'; for some of them that were designed a certain way where the word is actually recognized by the algorithms (also maybe because it's on a platform with over 10k followers which normally allows you more freedom, such as the one of sharing direct links), the 'share' button is replaced with a direct link to the Covid information page on a governmental website (and so you can't share the story either, unless you redesign it; your only option is reading the official communication for yourself as your nose gets shoved into the dog shit).
This post has been edited by ck3D: 28 July 2021 - 07:01 AM
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