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@ErikUden Well, sorry, but you are #totally wrong with "how to (not)use hashtags".

Hashtags have always been used in multiple ways. Especially in a digital world of communication, #emphasis is important to create context. With character limits and a lack of formatting, this was (and still is) a good method.

(Other examples: Bookmarks, grouping posts, e.g. for Events, ...)

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Unfortunately, there is no #evidence that measures are being taken to quickly stop what is happening, says Martin Beer, Vice President of the Friedrich Loeffler Institute (#FLI) on the island of Riems near Greifswald . The impression that more #emphasis is placed in the #USA on avoiding short-term #economic #damage than on preventing a possible further #zoonosis is also confirmed by virologist Christian Drosten .

« If we see only the worst, it destroys our capacity to do something. If we remember those times and places — and there are so many — where people have behaved magnificently, this gives us the energy to act, and at least the possibility of sending this spinning top of a world in a different direction. »

― Howard Zinn

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TumblrPoligraf · The Artistic ImpulseIf we see only the worst, it destroys our capacity to do something. If we remember those times and places — and there are so many — where people have behaved magnificently, this gives us the energy to...