I know its a good thing to have a discussion about certain aspects of covid, lockdown etc as well as an equally healthy difference of viewpoints.
However, I feel that its gone too far now and has started to mimic the worst kind of tweets etc on social media platforms. Its getting nastier and nastier. I'm not on social media (it doesn't interest me) but I've read some of the reports of just how cruel the postings can be.
There was recently a thread where contributors positively salivated at the prospect of Trump not surviving his covid diagnosis. Thankfully, it was locked by the people who run this site but not before it had got quite unedifying. He may not be everyone's cup of tea (certainly not mine) but he's a human being, after all.
Now, again, we have certain people rejoicing at the draconian measures handed out to people on the IoM. Lock 'em up, throw away the key, oh and by the way, don't feed them more than the absolute minimum. Really?
I admit I'm no saint in this respect but I do try to exercise some degree of humanity. It isn't enough to say that this is for the greater good because, if we have to resort to such thoughts and expressions, we are already lost.