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This is the great crisis of our time......... unless we start pressuring social media companies to clean up their act, this brainwashing that has taken over a large percent of our population will just go on and on long after drumpf and covid are gone......
1/3 of our country believes this shit to varying degrees.......
https://www.nbcnews.com/tech/tech-news/what-are-we-doing-doctors-are-fed-conspiracies-ravaging-ers-n1201446
At the end of another long shift treating coronavirus patients, Dr. Hadi Halazun opened his Facebook page to find a man insisting to him that "no one's dying" and that the coronavirus is "fake news" drummed up by the news media.
Hadi tried to engage and explain his firsthand experience with the virus. In reply, another user insinuated that he wasn't a real doctor, saying pictures from his profile showing him at concerts and music festivals proved it.
"I told them: 'I am a real doctor. There are 200 people in my hospital's ICU,'" said Halazun, a cardiologist in New York. "And they said, 'Give me your credentials.' I engaged with them, and they kicked me off their wall."
"I left work and I felt so deflated. I let it get to me."
Karadeniz
(22,583 posts)mr_lebowski
(33,643 posts)Renew Deal
(81,881 posts)Better late than never.
rickford66
(5,528 posts)JI7
(89,276 posts)Buckeye_Democrat
(14,858 posts)Family and coworkers tried to convince me to create a FB account years ago. From what I could gather, it created more conflict than bringing people together.
Now it comes with bullshit "news" too? No thanks!
LastDemocratInSC
(3,652 posts)I truly don't understand why others flock to it.
JI7
(89,276 posts)Trump being the top troll.
mopinko
(70,261 posts)she compared it to the evolution over the last 20 years on drunk driving.
it was damn on point.