> Off-Topic: Most stories about politics, or crime, or sports, or celebrities, unless they're evidence of some interesting new phenomenon. If they'd cover it on TV news, it's probably off-topic.
https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
That does not mean the stories are not important. They are. Vitally important. HN is just not the place for those discussions. This is not being dismissive of the stories, it should be seen as instead encouraging everyone to find a better site to engage even deeper with things that matter. At the end of the day, HN matters to your job, but stories like the ones getting flagged matter to the lives of millions.
Show some respect for how important they are by not striving to mix them in here.