Berlin: Thousands march in COVID-19 pandemic skeptic protest – DW – 08/03/2024
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Thousands marched in Berlin to reprise demonstrations questioning government-imposed measures at the height of the COVID-19 pandemic. Participants also voiced opposition to Germany's push to rebuild its military.

Several thousand people on Saturday joined a street demonstration and rally in Berlin organized by Germany’s “Lateral Thinking” protest movement.

The protest faction, best known for staging demonstrations against COVID-19 pandemic restrictions, was calling for a reassessment of government measures and “consequences for those responsible.”

However, a large contingent also protested against the German government’s push to rebuild the country’s military.

  • mommykink@lemmy.worldEnglish
    2910·
    4 months ago

    I think most people are wising up to the fact that there were really concurrent pandemics.

    The first pandemic was the 2019 SARS-CoV-2 (Coronavirus) outbreak. The existence of which was self-evident, measurable, and unavoidable (up to a point).

    The second pandemic was the mass looting of public/private resources that corporations used the cover of the first pandemic to excuse themselves for. This pandemic was allowed to happen by ineffective (at best) or colluding (at worst (see: USA, Trump admin.)) governments around the world.

    Most people see these are one event when in reality they were two. It’s also in the perpetrators of the second pandemic’s best interest to keep people believing that they were the same event.

    • SlopppyEngineer@lemmy.worldEnglish
      81·
      4 months ago

      questioning government-imposed measures at the height of the COVID-19 pandemic

      Article says they’re still mad at no parties and mask thing

    • Gsus4@mander.xyzEnglish
      42·
      4 months ago

      So are they protesting shrinkflation, inflation, interest rate hikes?

      • LastJudgement@lemmy.worldEnglish
        81·
        4 months ago

        No they aren’t. They wre probably still protesting “the state made me wear a mask that one time” or “my conman of choice told me all vaxxed will die by september 2022 why are y’all not dead yet” or some stupid conspiracy they pulled out of their ass in the meantime. Above poster got no clue what they’re talking about.

      • mommykink@lemmy.worldEnglish
        1012·
        4 months ago

        I believe that’s probably the real reason, yes. I doubt that this many people are still upset about being asked to stay home for a few months and get a shot. What they’re mad about is what happened immediately after COVID, when they did everything they could, only to have had their livelihoods taken from them by opportunistic corporations and the elites while it was made literally illegal to speak out against it.

        For the most part, people would’ve followed lockdowns without much protest if they had been taken care of and things were “still where they left them” when it lifted, so to speak. Most people struggle with critical thinking and are confusing correlation with causation.

        • LastJudgement@lemmy.worldEnglish
          124·
          4 months ago

          Why are you posting shit when you got no clue what you’re talking about?

          These “Querdenker” are those kinda dumbfucks, vaccination deniers who couldn’t be bothered to wear masks for 20 minutes while grocery shopping, who spread awful lies like “our children are dying because they can’t breathe with their masks”, who would risk the lives of their fellow humans for their own comfort.

          But you couldn’t resist posting your shitty fanfic here and pretending to be an expert on something you have no single clue about, glazing up these right-wing extremist fucks when all you had to do was just inform yourself for a second before you post your shitty theory here.

          “I believe that’s probably the real reason, yes” I believe you should log off forever