Open (More or Less) Post on Covid 24

[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 very high number of comments, so I'm opening yet 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 plan on using rent-a-troll derailing or disruption tactics, please go away. I'm quite familiar with the standard tactics used by troll farms to disrupt online forums, and am ready, willing, and able -- and in fact quite eager -- to ban people permanently for engaging in them here. Oh, and I also lurk on other Covid-19 vaccine skeptic blogs, so I'm likely to notice when the same posts are showing up on more than one venue. 

4. 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, as more and more vaccinated people call in sick with the disease the vaccine was supposed to keep them from getting, and the euphemism "died suddenly" sounds like a repeated drumbeat in the media, the floor is open for discussion.

Comments

Re: collapse

[(Anonymous)]

Local Costco - all the cheap chickens and cuts are gone, plus the loss-leader rotisserie chickens are all gone. If you do the math, you can't cook a whole chicken for less than what they sell those rotisserie chickens for (and that's on purpose).

Only the premium (read expensive) whole chickens were left (and of those there weren't that many) and they had plenty of the most expensive chicken cuts left. But all the thighs and most of the wings were all gone.

I'm not a big milk drinker, but the dairy products I do consume have yet to go into shortage. Eggs seemed to be plenty enough on the shelves.

Re: collapse

[methylethyl]

I noticed at the Mart of Walls today that while all the usual cuts of chicken are still there, whole chickens (the cheapest option per pound) went up another 6 cents a pound last week. That's been a weird stealth rise: I used to be able to get leg quarters for 85 cents/lb, but over the last year, those and drumsticks shot up to $1.49/lb while whole chickens stayed the same, so "cheapest cut" went from being legs to being whole chickens. But now the whole ones are creeping up.

Re: collapse

[(Anonymous)]

I went grocery shopping today (BC)and noticed shortages in various places, most notably including fresh produce and cleaning supplies.

I also realized that my expectations for being able to find what I want, when I want it have dropped a lot since 2019. Because I saw milk looking fairly full and mentally went 'yes!' and then 'they've got island farms' and then 'they've even got 2% in the 1L!'. There's no way I would have been excited about that in 2019.

Milk has been spotty for a while. You can always buy some, but getting a specific brand in the right size with the % you want is another matter.

Re: collapse

[methylethyl]

Saw that for the first time this week, here. Ended up buying organic whole milk, which I usually avoid, because it was the only gallon-size available. Nothing against organic, but they're always "ultra-pasteurized" and I distrust that.