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It's nice to see that we no longer trust privatization as a the magic wand that solves public institution problems.
That said I think the 52% support for non-union gig work in Canada Post is indicative of the mindset that needs shifting if Canada is to change course in a way that makes most people better off long term.
Source: https://angusreid.org/canada-post-privatization-strike-service-disruption-vote-union/
This is worrying, even with the majority not wanting privatization.
Lately I think the number of low IQ people has increased from ~15% to 30%
Since COVID people have been significantly stupider.
I think it's also made much more apparent when that demographic that had no interest in computers were forced to be chronically online due to the lockdowns and quickly found the anti-vaxx groups, and suddenly felt like their opinion matters and that everyone is an expert if they do a little bit of "research".
Canada is being heavily targeted by Cambridge Analytica (whatever they’re called now), now that they’ve achieved total domination in the US. Please be careful! It starts with facebook and talk radio and gets very bad very quickly.
That's why I'm on Lemmy. If I'm going to be indoctrinated. At least, I become even more a solid leftist.
Have you come across any measurements on this?
According to Oxford long covid averages a 10 point IQ drop, other sources say mild covid resulted in a 3-6 point drop.
https://www.ox.ac.uk/news/2024-08-01-long-term-cognitive-and-psychiatric-effects-covid-19-revealed-new-study
Interesting. We should look at country IQ averages in the coming years. Would be interesting to see how these changes affect it. A lot of people had mild illness.
Yeah. An older report by Angus Reid from 2019 cited here says that about 60% did not support privatization. That would put privatization support at the time at 40-something, since the union would like to make the opposite number as large as possible. So there's perhaps some trend away from privatization.