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    1. Michael Tracey‏Verified account @mtracey 6 Jun 2020

      Some of the stories I am hearing, but cannot share due to privacy, are simply mind-blowing. Feels like there's been some kind of dramatic rupture in the past week that is affecting all sectors of society. "Cultural Revolution" sounds dramatic but I can't think of another term

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    2. Scott McConnell‏ @ScottMcConnell9 6 Jun 2020
      Replying to @mtracey

      If so, and it may be, the covid shutdown has a lot to do with it in ways no one has figured out yet.

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      Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 6 Jun 2020
      Replying to @ScottMcConnell9 @mtracey

      Not the shutdown but the pandemic itself and the government's botched response destroyed the social contract. People saw that the elite doesn't care about them -- wouldn't provide protection and expected "essential worker" to risk death. That's destroyed traditional deference.

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        2. Scott McConnell‏ @ScottMcConnell9 6 Jun 2020
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          Social contract hit (also?) by seeming ability of govt. to hand out free money to min. wagers and corporations alike. Biggest factor though probably people shut in, working from home for three months, suddenly having a plausible, long suppressed, reason to go out.

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        3. Vorwärts‏ @AVorwarts 6 Jun 2020
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          I’d say it’s a little bit of both. In any case it’s an unprecedented transformational situation that will be studied and felt for decades.

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        1. Asha'man RyanSuxIRL  🌽 🍞  🇺🇸‏ @RyanSuxIRL 6 Jun 2020
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          You don't think a wack job social media world where conspiracy theories ranging from anti-vaxx to pizzagate could have played a role?

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        1. Saturdays on Couch‏ @SaturdayOnCouch 6 Jun 2020
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          This is mind blowing. The work you have to do to purposefully miss the point this badly can only be done on social media. Nowhere else can this thought pattern last 30 minutes

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        1. AlbertF‏ @AlbertF9999 6 Jun 2020
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          Oh bullshit

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