Open (More or Less) Post on Covid 6

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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 gargantuan (and increasing) 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)]

I also do not watch tv.

I do social media, but it's carefully currated, and I think I've spent between two and five hours a week since January 20th talking folks off the suicide ledge. (This Administration has a lot to answer for, what with the threats, Afghanistan, and general running their mouths.) Time well spent, and I'm not the only one in my social groups doing this, but dang, it's exhausting. No, killing yourself will not fix your job/business/relationship problems, and how do you think that will help your kids/cats/dogs anyway, nor does the idiotic method of withdrawal mean your blood and your buddies' lives were wasted, thank you for your service and don't you dare quit, soldier! We need you more than ever now.

I also spend a lot of time explaining How To Home School these days.

Much of my social groups, online and off, are very You Do You and I'll Do Me sorts. Of course, home schoolers are heavily pre-disposed to independence . . . er, ornery sheer pigheadedness. Or something like that.
My church has just re-opened, and they and the Society for Creative Anachronism are probably the two most conformist groups in my personal sphere.

There's a meme running around of two ladies holding hands, back towards the photographer, one wearing a placard that says "I'm unvaccinated and for choice" the other saying "I'm vaccinated and for choice." These are my people. My closest friend, my brother-in-all-but-biology, is vaccinated, and we've agreed to disagree. My siblings-in-law and their families are largely anti-vax, and the one who did get vaccinated promptly got a nasty but just below hospitilization worthy case, and no-way-no-how are their kids getting that. Not that their daddy would have stood for it: turns out immigrant PMC minorities have the same general suspicions about government medical programs as native born working and welfare minorities do. Funny, that history of eugenics coming back to bite.

I do the Christian Banishing, I pray very often: lots of folks want prayer, and God knows I need a hand with all this.

Unusually, my home is framed in steel, not stick-built. They say iron repels fairies, well, and our internet is very unreliable, so who knows?

I have not heard any of these voices. I have, however, heard my God's voice several times, though not recently. (Which is a good thing, I did mention sheer pigheadedness, didn't I? Hammer has not been required to get my attention lately.)

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