Scrolled down the front page, saw some mild discourse in posts/comments about flagging vs not flagging covid-19 themes as inappropriate.

My 2 cents: Down-vote it all you want, but flagging it is useless and wasting the time of whoever has to look at those flags. It might be socially inappropriate in that people are looking to escape the topic - though clearly many people want to deal with the topic this jam, hence suggesting it! - but it's not thematically inappropriate by any means worth flagging.

Consider it like YouTube. Someone makes a pornographic video of covid-19 topic? Flag it. Someone just makes a video venting about it or expressing information? Upvote, downvote, ignore it completely, unsubscribe, do whatever you wish. It's not an inappropriate topic.

Save your flagging for things like "The internet is for cats and porn, but don't let the two mix" and "Anime tiddies", etc. Funny themes, but I've seen parent-child teams in ldjam before. Covid-19 isn't an inappropriate topic for children, and being able to safely explore themes related to it might be helpful for those families - meanwhile, anime tiddies and implied cat porn are definitely inappropriate topics.

Also, some of the covid-adjacent themes are fun. I've been downvoting all the "stay at home" clones, but I saw one that was "home detention", which I thought was a more inspiring way to phrase it. Likewise, abstracting covid into post-apocalyptic/pandemic/epidemic/virus themes instead of specifically covid-19 allow more room to play. I've been ignoring "stop the spread", but I thought "flatten the curve" could be fun on its own - terraforming mountains into fields, for example, or a work exploring gender identity (anime tiddies vs smooth chest, etc). I've also been upvoting "kill the virus" clones because if we're gonna end up with a covid-19 theme, it sure would be fun to beat the hell out of the virus in like a fighting game or superhero sense or whatever. Fun ways of coping with troubling times.

Point is: covid-19 is a topic that could be covered by sesame street to help kids cope with the ongoing crisis, and therefore, it is not inappropriate as a game jam theme. Save your flags for literally porn and tiddies.