Open (More or Less) Post on Covid 5

[ecosophia]

The semi-open posts  I've hosted here on the Covid-19 narrative, the inadequately tested experimental drugs for it, and the whole cascading mess surrounding them have continued to field a huge number of comments, so I'm opening another space for discussion. The rules are the same as before: 

1. If you plan on parroting the party line of the medical industry and its paid shills, please go away. This is a place for people to talk openly, honestly, and freely about their concerns that the party line in question is dangerously flawed and that actions being pushed by the medical industry et al. are causing injury and death. It is not a place for you to dismiss those concerns. Anyone who wants to hear the official story and the arguments in favor of it can find those on hundreds of thousands of websites.

2. If you plan on insisting that the current situation is the result of a deliberate plot by some villainous group of people or other, please go away. There are tens of thousands of websites currently rehashing various conspiracy theories about the Covid-19 outbreak and the vaccines. This is not one of them. What we're exploring is the likelihood that what's going on is the product of the same arrogance, incompetence, and corruption that the medical industry and its tame politicians have displayed so abundantly in recent decades. That possibility deserves a space of its own for discussion, and that's what we're doing here. 

3. If you don't believe in treating people with common courtesy, please go away. I have, and enforce, a strict courtesy policy on my blogs and online forums, and this is no exception. The sort of schoolyard bullying that takes place on so many other internet forums will get you deleted and banned here. No, I don't care if you disagree with that: my journal, my rules. 

With that said, the floor is open for discussion. 

Comments

[(Anonymous)]

This is an excellent point.

Over the last 20 years, I watched as post-911 war propaganda worked wonders on people on the political right and convinced them that there were terrorists hiding under their beds and we have to invade middle eastern countries because "freedom" - but the same propaganda didn't convince most of the left. Then I watched as anti-Trump propaganda did a number on the political left and turned them into deranged loons, but generally didn't work on the right (even the ones who weren't all that crazy about Trump still didn't succumb to the TDS). Now I feel like the covid propaganda is working on some people but not others. The PMC are falling for it big time, and there also seem to be some easily-frightened working class folks who are cowering in masks, but it's clearly not working on everyone.

That is the one problem with propaganda. No matter how good it is, it can't appeal to everyone, because people have different "triggers"/unmet needs that can't be met by the same approach.