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R/NoNewNormal has been quarantined

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A bit of a shame, there were definitely a fair number of users on there who were pushing misinformation and such, but it was also a break from the attitude you see across most of reddit - that politicians can just never be doing enough and we should always be willing to restrict more freedoms for any level of disease prevention.

I saw someone in a subreddit for my state seriously suggesting that we need to distribute N95 respirators to everyone and go on a military lockdown until cases go to zero for an extended period.

I do believe there is a line, I can't point to it directly, but it's good to think about where it lies for you.

ELI5 for those of use who don't reddit/haven't seen the subreddit before?

TLDR open everything up/antivax/antimask subreddit

There is also a hefty dose of "if seatbelts work why do i have to wear one by law, why isn't other people wearing one enough" type of logic.

I'm interested in why people are downvoting. Is the conclusion wrong? I'm unable to view the subreddit and the barrage of downvotes on seemingly correct comments does nothing to explain what it actually is.

A subreddit that questions whether using 1984 as a playbook to quash a disease with a 99.97% survival rate is the right trade-off.

Which policies in particular do they find 1984-esque?

Also I'm not sure where 99.97% is coming from, I'm getting ~98.3% from the CDC's Data Tracker page. Of course unreported cases could increase that, but it still seems significantly different from whatever source that's from.

The actual CDC best estimate is a 99.4% survival rate overall in the US since the pandemic started.

https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/cases-updates/burd...

Of course the survival rate is much higher than that now for vaccinated people.

If you genuinely think that the fight against COVID-19 is like 1984 i’m certain you haven’t engaged deeply with Orwell’s writings.

I don't think that he is implying that COVID == 1984, but rather that there are some massive (surface-level) similarities between the handling of the COVID pandemic and general US policies and the policies in 1984.

I am a NoNewNormal user if youre really interested in what moves us, read The great reset covid 19 by klaus schwab. Their slogan is build back better used by several politicians. They also use a slogan youll own nothing and be happy. We are being pushed by some agenda this aint a real pandemic come on the symptoms are the same as the flue for real

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Reset

Its all backed to the World Economic Forum lead by klaus schwab. Every world leader hangs with him. His mother seemed to be a rothschild.

What is this? The page requires being signed-in to view and does not have a description of this subreddit publicly viewable. What's the significance here?

I just looked. It sounds like they describe themself as a place to question the policies of the 'new normal'.

What is "the new normal"? Is this related to the pandemic?

https://www.redbubble.com/shop/?query=no%20new%20normal

I don't understand. Is the sub designed to sell these shirts?

sigh ... _no_

I thought the selection would give a pretty idea of what people mean by "no new normal".

The phrase “new normal” refers to living with restrictions to prevent Coronavirus spread, such as wearing face masks.

They share political, anti-vax-mandate content with a maximalist bent that, last I scanned, reads as Q-adjacent

If the vaccine is effective then mandates are unnecessary.

I didn't need to sign in via old.reddit.com, in case you want to see for yourself.

Good. Everyone has right to their crazy opinion, but everyone people and organizations don't have to help to spread them.

The only good take on this hacker news comment section :)

Are they also going to quarantine NNN’s controlled opposition, r/CovidVaccinated? That subreddit is filled with LARPers screenshotting their own posts so they can make fun of them on 4chan and NoNewNormal. There are probably a dozen people posting 80% of the content there.

Thank you censorship, or I would have never known about this subreddit.

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