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: DC March

[(Anonymous)]

Maybe. The one other time I participated in the protest-in-DC ritual was in opposition to the incipient Iraq War. Watching it get memory-holed by the media was an important lesson.

Re: DC March

[(Anonymous)]

To me the lesson of that was, if you want substantive change, aim at winning elections and at getting the legislation you want to see enacted. That takes strategy, focus, and persistent effort in the face of extreme tedium (because this sort of work can be utter drudgery) and sometimes also in the face of gut-wrenching short- and medium-term disappointment.

Protesting feels good, it discharges a lot of pent-up energy, and yes of course the big turn-out shows TPTB and fence-sitters that people care-- but what happens in Washington DC when the protestors go home?

Lots of things, maybe, but from what I've seen, that's when the lobbyists eat their lunch, and yours too.

Take vaxx passports. I say, they need to be made illegal. I suppose one could come up with some exotic scenarios wherein this could happen, but the most obvious one to me is that candidates who care about this have to be elected. Then, legislators who care about this issue have to propose that legislation (tricky, especially for junior members), and then shepherd it through the legislative process (super tricky, requiring many allies and loads of experience) without losing its essence (for sure, like velcro, and not to mix metaphors, said proposed legislation will attract multiple "pork barrels"), and then corral the votes (ye old political horse trading) needed to make it pass.

This is by no means impossible. But... it's way easier to just go march and yell and feel all outraged & energized and sing & clap!

Both are good, don't get me wrong.

But I would say to any US citizen who is considering taking the trouble to go to Washington: Do you happen to know the name and office address of your US representative, your two US Senators, and, by the way, your state representative and state senator? And your mayor? And your city council members? If you don't, look them up-- they're right there on their webpages. You might get quite a bit more mileage than you imagine by protesting to them, or thanking them for their service, directly. Let them know that you're going to Washington for this protest. Let them know what you think, and how you hope they will vote. Let them know that YOU SEE THEM, you are watching what they do, how they vote. And that you know when the next election is, and that you are not going away.

Taupe Cantankerous Hedgehog