I'm not sure what the rules are here on DOVE.net concerning the whole pandemic. If this type of discussion is taboo or even wanted in this community, let me know and I won't "go there".

On the other hand BBS GypsyRyder telnet: gypsy.8bit.ca is where anyone intereted in this topic can join the discussion. There is a ton of info links, videos and documentaries on this and other topics the MSM won't cover.

What are your two cents? I won't be offended.

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Re: Testing the waters
By: Spaul to All on Wed Nov 30 2022 12:14 pm

I'm not sure what the rules are here on DOVE.net concerning the whole pandemic. If this type of

On the other hand BBS GypsyRyder telnet: gypsy.8bit.ca is where anyone intereted in this topic c

What are your two cents? I won't be offended.

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This is not FSXNet. You are allowed to have impopular opinions. IMO the real appeal of secluded
places such as this one is being able to have opinions that would get you banned elsewhere.

The aftermath of the pandemic is much worse here than the pandemic itself (including the mass
hysteria) was. Maybe it is just a Spanish thing.

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I would not go as far as to say the vaccines did nothing good, but they were

tainly oversold to
the public as a magic solution when it wasn't.

This.

If anything I am pissed because people took the vaccines and stopped being

ar

ul because they had
taken the vaccines and thought themselves immortal.

And especially this. The current US administration, and the press, started calling COVID a pandemic of the unvaccinated but I know many (supposedly) vaccinated people who quit being careful and very shortly got sick.

I am vacinnated and have continued to be as careful as my employer will
allow and, knock on wood, I still have yet to get sick.


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Re: Testing the waters
By: Spaul to MRO on Thu Dec 01 2022 04:04 pm

Thanks for the reply. It is refreshing to know that this is an open minded board.

Dove-Net is a networked message group. The board you're using isn't the only board that has Dove-Net.

Nightfox

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Am I hearing (Reading) this right? Post's were deleted because somone dislike
an opinion? FSXNET is that bad? I remember when fidonet used to do that. How disapointing. I'll have to take those networks off my scan list.

Sysops may have deleted messages from their individual boards, but there is
no way they got deleted from the whole network. I am on that network and
have never been asked by Paul/Avon or anyone else to remove messages from FSX areas on my BBS.


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Spaul wrote to MRO <=-

Re: Testing the waters
By: MRO to Arelor on Wed Nov 30 2022 11:58 pm

Thanks for the reply. It is refreshing to know that this is an open
minded board. I know that everyone is sick to death of this topic but I just wanted to see if I might some grief about even bringing it up.

You are correct about FSXNET. That was the BBS I originally set up only
to find the sysop shutting down anything releated to other opinions
about the pandemic. I guess he had his reasons.

To be honest, synchronet was 10 times easier to set up. Once I sorted
out the port issues I was getting, I was up and running in no time.

Looking forward to participating on the board. I have many other
interests so I might be hitting people up on more techy questions.
Cheers!

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Spaul wrote to All <=-

I'm not sure what the rules are here on DOVE.net concerning the whole pandemic. If this type of discussion is taboo or even wanted in this community, let me know and I won't "go there".

On the other hand BBS GypsyRyder telnet: gypsy.8bit.ca is where anyone intereted in this topic can join the discussion. There is a ton of info links, videos and documentaries on this and other topics the MSM won't cover.

What are your two cents? I won't be offended.

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I dont have much to say on the pandemic itself, but it showed me that people who are supposedly educated and class themselves as the bastions of rationality dropped critical thinking in order to score points. Things quickly turned into a political crapfest where one side wanted to prove the other was science-denying right-wing conspiracy theorists. In order to do that, they claimed that they represented "science", and believed that the mainstream narrative was indeed based on the best science there was. In order to take this position, people refused to look that perhaps state actors were using this as an opportunity to control the population, that perhaps Big Pharma might put money over safety and efficacy. People lost any sense of scepticism so they could portray themselves as being with the 'narrative', which was seen as science and progress.

I'm not going to comment on the vaccines specifically, but I think other social motives took root, and bad information was flowing over all facets of any debate and discussion.

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HusTler wrote to MRO <=-

Re: Testing the waters
By: MRO to Arelor on Wed Nov 30 2022 11:58 pm

This is not FSXNet. You are allowed to have impopular opinions. IMO
the real appeal of secluded places such as this one is being able to have opinions that would get you banned elsewhere.

yeah i heard they had some drama there and posts get deleted.
my buddy nick andre said i was banned from there but I think i only posted l

Am I hearing (Reading) this right? Post's were deleted because
somone disliked an opinion? FSXNET is that bad? I remember when
fidonet used to do that. How disapointing. I'll have to take
those networks off my scan list.

No, you're not hearing that right. MRO is an idiot. Don't be an idiot
too.



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Re: Testing the waters
By: Dumas Walker to MRO on Sun Dec 04 2022 09:55 am

Paul began these rules back almost a year ago when I was carrying FsX, regarding political/religion conversations because of all the talk about Trump. It's interesting this is still going on.

Mick

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Mickey wrote to Dumas Walker <=-

Paul began these rules back almost a year ago when I was carrying FsX, regarding political/religion conversations because of all the talk
about Trump. It's interesting this is still going on.

The US is still as politically divided, and I, for one, appreciate having a politics-free zone. There are certainly enough areas on Fidonet and
othernets to get into debates (that inevitably bleed into the other areas), we don't need all of them to do so.


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Re: Re: Testing the waters
By: poindexter FORTRAN to Mickey on Mon Dec 05 2022 06:26 am

The US is still as politically divided, and I, for one, appreciate having a politics-free zone. There are certainly enough areas on Fidonet and othernets to get into debates (that inevitably bleed into the other areas), we don't need all of them to do so.

I understand why somebody would want a politics-free zone, but in practical terms, FSXNet only seems to be it.

As I have mentioned earlier, if you follow the party line nobody will have issue with you even if you push the boundaries. If you don't follow the party line, the thread will be flagged as political and the subject torn down.

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Paul began these rules back almost a year ago when I was carrying FsX,

egardi

political/religion conversations because of all the talk about Trump. It's

n

resting this is still going on.

Yes and, if you remember, a lot of baiting was being done by persons who
don't live in North America (and, if you ask them, usually don't want to
tell you anything about what is going on in their country).


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The recession was already starting to happen before Obama took office. I

eme

er hearing about it soon before George W Bush was about to leave office, and

re was an interview with him where he said "Why did this have to happen on my tch?"

It actually started with the dot.com boom/crash before Bush took office, as well as the housing market crash, the roots of which were taking hold before Bush took office, although it seemed to be going unnoticed by most.

There was a docu-drama, and docu-series, about the dot.com boom/bust
sometime during the last 4-5 years that notes the link between the dot.com crash, the housing market crash, and several other recession causing
incidents that it either triggered or made worse.

The moral of the story was not to invest tons of money in companies that do
not actually produce anything. Their stocks were over-inflated by the excitement, and total lack of misunderstanding, of what the WWW was going
to be.

The people going crazy with crypto lately did not learn anything from it.


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Dumas Walker wrote to NIGHTFOX <=-

The recession was already starting to happen before Obama took office. I

eme

er hearing about it soon before George W Bush was about to leave office, and

re was an interview with him where he said "Why did this have to happen on

my

tch?"

It actually started with the dot.com boom/crash before Bush took
office, as well as the housing market crash, the roots of which were taking hold before Bush took office, although it seemed to be going unnoticed by most.

There was a docu-drama, and docu-series, about the dot.com boom/bust sometime during the last 4-5 years that notes the link between the
dot.com crash, the housing market crash, and several other recession causing incidents that it either triggered or made worse.

The moral of the story was not to invest tons of money in companies
that do not actually produce anything. Their stocks were over-inflated
by the excitement, and total lack of misunderstanding, of what the WWW
was going to be.

The people going crazy with crypto lately did not learn anything from
it.

The leaders of the Anglosphere during that time period were truly, truly awful.
John Howard went along with that shoddy Iraq war, ruined the Australian economy by making housing unaffordable for two whole generations of people. Tony Blair was a cretinous nation destroying war criminal arse who hated his own country and sought to replace it. No wonder things went tits-up.


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