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Post by ace35 on Apr 8, 2020 14:14:40 GMT -5
It doesn't matter if people thought the virus was under control - this photo made a mockery of the innocent victims who were dying everyday from COVID-19. If they were mocking a school shooting, or train crash, or terrorist attack, in which 107 people died, no one would be questioning the insensitivity of the photo. Why is a fatal virus different? It's very much different, at least back then it was, and your analogy is a false equivalency. A much more accurate analogy would be a common flu, and jokes about it. Here's a statistic for you: between 200.000 and 700.000 people die each year from flu. That means that, officially, mortality rate of COVID-19 is not yet half of common flu's yearly toll. Now, to make myself clear, my purpose in making this comparison is not to try to argue that coronavirus is less dangerous than common flu (quite the opposite), but to ask the following question: Have you EVER asked someone to apologise after seeing them make a joke about runny nose, or seen anyone else demand an apology? The thing that makes COVID-19 truly tragic and scary to people is not so much the number of deaths, but the following 2 things: 1)It's newness and the fact that literally all of us are susceptible to it 2)It's effect on society (stopping social life, disrupting public events, economic difficulties etc) THAT is why your analogy is flawed, and is informed by hindsight. You are projecting the full scale of horribleness we now all feel toward this pandemic back onto 4th of March, when these factors had either not yet been into effect, or not fully comprehended (like I said, not even by medical profession, let alone some athletes).
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Post by ace35 on Apr 8, 2020 14:25:36 GMT -5
And again, to repeat: I think that making that photo was ill-advised, and the girls should not have done it. But to hound them for apology, or worse yet, to make an equivalency between their reaction and someone mocking victims of shooting is going beyond all proportion and logic.
Also, these constant hunts for apology for every and any deviation from picture-perfect behaviour we demand of our public figures (but not of ourselves) is a sign of toxicity of a particular aspect of our modern culture, but that's a very complicated topic for another time and place.
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Post by Reach on Apr 8, 2020 14:52:09 GMT -5
what a stupid thing to argue over since the club released an apology
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