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: Sunk Cost Fallacy - the Psychological Dilemma

[(Anonymous)]

Re: " her entire vocation and identity as nurse and mother going down in flames."

Yes, alas, and I agree, "people like her need is a way forward that is as gentle and compassionate as possible. It needs to be one that lets her save face as much as possible, and gives positive ways to deal with her and her family's health."

In large part, it seems to me, it's up to her, the stories she chooses to buy into. She'll get a menu of those served up on MSM and FB, and also from "alternative sources" and from the various political campaigns we'll be seeing. No doubt some will be carefully crafted to appeal to her, one way or another, and algorithms will do their work.

I expect that many people will refuse to come to terms with it at all (covidian cultists to the end, vaxxed up for whatever they're told to get vaxxed for), while others, accepting that they have been deceived and taken poison, will sink into rage and despair-- for some that will mean lashing out at others, for some it will mean lashing out at themselves. A few might figure out how to pick themselves up, find a way to love themselves and love others, and soldier on... I hope so.

One thing of many that history teaches is how easily people just... forget.