Out of interest, does any one know how many members of LDS there are?
Generally reading comments and forum contributions I get the feeling there aren't very many of us - but it would be interesting to know.
Obviously there are members of the general population who are also sceptical of lockdown but are not members of this site (I am married to one) so I wonder how widely scepticism is felt in the public at large. Seeing the masked morons walking outside and driving alone makes me think that a huge percentage have bought the whole thing hook, line and sinker and we are in a very small minority 🙁
Also, how do we know this web site isn't some form of reverse trojan horse so TPTB have got us all coralled in here and identified for 'special treatment' when the time comes...?
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I wonder this as well. There are bold people out there who just ignore or do the bare minimum of things that the restrictions require but they don't really talk openly about it. They'll just say "oh its a pain in the arse isn't it" and won't get too worked up. At least not in conversation. Online, people seem very divided but in real life its almost a taboo to mention the lockdowns. A lot of people are like that. People in the middle. Maybe there is some other forum that people use or social media groups. I deleted my social media accounts last year so I don't know what kind of resistance groups started there but it seemed like them big companies were very much "on message" with the govt and starting to censor a lot more by the tail end of 2020.
This forum never really had that many people regularly using it, as far as I'm aware having used it occasionally since last autumn. I wouldn't worry about what you say on here because its pretty mild compared to a lot of the internet. The forums have been hijacked a bit by 77th trolls who seem to spend so much time on here that you would almost think it is their job to watch posts on here and undermine the sceptics position. All they need is a password and a lot of free time. Most of the stuff on here about "dangerous anti-vaxxers" is by them.
I haven't got an account, but just surfing Twitter on my internet browser is quite a good way of gauging where things are going at the moment. I agree with a lot of the sentiment posted on here but sometimes it can be a bit hard to think about dark concepts like society changing forever to a more authoritarian system while certain threads on Twitter are maybe a bit more positive in terms of concentrating on the here and now and what can be done to hold people to account for what has been proven to have happened not just where people think things could go in a worst case scenario.
I haven't done it much myself but people sometimes used to share personal anecdotes in this forum about how lockdown has affected their day to day lives and that was quite good to read and probably valuable for those people to have somewhere to vent when they feel like they can't in real life for fear of not being listened to. Lately the forum has moved to bigger political issues, mostly UK politics. There don't seem to be many people posting here from outside the UK anymore. It was good to hear how other countries were doing through this. I may be wrong but I sometimes get the impression that most of the people using this forum are either middle-aged or a bit older. The younger people seem to be elsewhere. I'm a reasonably young person and I haven't found this other place yet though. I think the dating site part of the forum was a novelty that was publicised for a while and maybe worked for one or two people but with full scale lockdowns (hopefully.... ) behind us in the UK, and things not feeling quite as oppressive at the end of May, people are going out a bit more and just maybe able to talk more freely in public without having to vent on here.
I don't know, I thought last year it would be good, maybe even romantic in the right circumstance, to have some kind of way for people to form like-minded groups and have an underground resistance network to plot against our oppressors or even just have a good old slagging off session but ultimately the internet is just a really boring and lonely place. Any free time I get, I prefer to just spend it by myself walking or cycling in the hills. I can't be bothered dealing with other people whatever their views are. This anti-lockdown thing has made strange allies out of people that we wouldn't normally have much else in common with. Maybe we didn't have much in common with our mainstream friends but never realised it before last year?
Maybe we as lockdown sceptics haven't successfully came together because even though we want the right to free assembly, we are not all of us naturally people who like being part of groups with a group mentality
