Unpopular Opinion
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How voting works:
Vote the opposite of the norm.
If you agree that the opinion is unpopular give it an arrow up. If it's something that's widely accepted, give it an arrow down.
Guidelines:
Tag your post, if possible (not required)
- If your post is a "General" unpopular opinion, start the subject with [GENERAL].
- If it is a Lemmy-specific unpopular opinion, start it with [LEMMY].
Rules:
1. NO POLITICS
Politics is everywhere. Let's make this about [general] and [lemmy] - specific topics, and keep politics out of it.
2. Be civil.
Disagreements happen, but that doesn’t provide the right to personally attack others. No racism/sexism/bigotry. Please also refrain from gatekeeping others' opinions.
3. No bots, spam or self-promotion.
Only approved bots, which follow the guidelines for bots set by the instance, are allowed.
4. Shitposts and memes are allowed but...
Only until they prove to be a problem. They can and will be removed at moderator discretion.
5. No trolling.
This shouldn't need an explanation. If your post or comment is made just to get a rise with no real value, it will be removed. You do this too often, you will get a vacation to touch grass, away from this community for 1 or more days. Repeat offenses will result in a perma-ban.
6. Defend your opinion
This is a bit of a mix of rules 4 and 5 to help foster higher quality posts. You are expected to defend your unpopular opinion in the post body. We don't expect a whole manifesto (please, no manifestos), but you should at least provide some details as to why you hold the position you do.
Instance-wide rules always apply. https://legal.lemmy.world/tos/
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I'm Australian, and It's up for argument about how necessary isolation was, but it definitely had a positive impact on transmission of the disease and covid deaths. I know for me, while I was not at high risk from covid, it helped people that I knew were immunocompromised. But the isolation had me in the worst depressive state I ever was in, combined with losing my job, 2020/2021 were some of the most terrifying and horrific parts of my life. I know a few people who died of covid too, so it wasn't this casual sickness.
I'm glad you had a good time during it, I just think it's an unpopular opinion describing it as some of the best years, because that's dismissive of a huge amount of people who suffered hard.
They're nothing more than a shitty troll
Saying that Australians were in concentration camps?
Gimme a fucking break
I don't agree with that view personally, but people are allowed to have their opinions even if they're conflated and hyperbole. Isolation affected many people in a ton of ways, even ignorant people, so I can understand how the more dramatic/ignorant view of it spread to the rest of the world.
Their entire post history is troll shit, that, or they're genuinely unhinged
And to say that us Australians were in concentration camps isn't a matter of opinion, it's idiotic bullshit from the worst, most unethical people in the world
I'm not agreeing with it lol I'm just saying I can understand how that view got spread around. There's a lot of misinformation about the country, not just about this. Drama makes the headlines.
Hmm fair enough about the deaths. But everything else about it made you stronger.
Nah not for me. It was nothing but a terrible time making me relive experiences I never should have experienced. If anything it made me weaker because I'm left with trauma now and am even more fearful of loneliness.
Fearful? Of what
Isolation and loneliness. Used to be fine with it now it fucks me up even for short periods of time.
You shouldn't be scared to be alone. Work on that
Your whole account is weird. Can’t decide weather its trolling, no respect for others, an AI/LLM, someone just going "fuck it all", someone mentally ill, or just a regular person with some unconventional view on the world
What makes you say that? Like what makes me different in my account activity than other users? I've done nothing but engage with communities
The way you engage with communities is quote off the usual stuff people expect from a legit person on here. And you have quite a young account, further playing into the "bot" and "troll" narrative. It seems a little offensive to a lot of people.
If you humans can't tell the differences between bots and your peers you are almost at the finish line of calamity
I wasn't until I was forced to be isolated for years. Point was simply that it was a traumatic and overall negative experience for me and many people like me.