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

[hearthspirit]

I did not know any of that about Pierre; they clearly didn't teach the history that would have been useful to know to us Millenials in high school. My Social Studies 10 teacher was, however, both a very openly proud socialist and a huge fan of Pierre, specifically citing the time he flipped off the Queen. Having all this information in one pile earlier might have saved me some serious cognitive dissonance in university with a certain Chilean professor. Which would have saved me spite-reading Ayn Rand.

Though, being a Millenial and only able to pay attention to the information that is beamed directly into my slack-jawed face as it happens in real-time, I did know that Quebec:

- has, and has had for my entire life, an actual Language Police (enabled under the Commission de surveillance - which became the Commission de protection de la langue française in 1984 non-ironically) which has been taken to court for violating the Canadian Charter of Human Rights several times. Quebec has always refused to stop language policing, arguing their need to protect the rights of their francophone majority (inside the province), becuase they're a minority if you look at it another way (inside the country).

- passed Bill 21 banning all wearing of religious symbols in publicly-funded institutions, which is also a gross violation of the Canadian Charter of Human Rights, but which they have managed to get away with due, specifically, to that whole "night of the long knives" thingy -with Trudeau senior and Chrétien again! - that put in place that eensy notwithstanding clause (money quote from the latter: "[it will only] be used to "correct absurd situations," he told the House of Commons").

So maybe I should still have been less surprised by Quebec's covid response. And, given the constant.incessant.yammering about Residential schools, broken treaty promises, use of germ warfare, starvation and unpersoning done to First Nations in the media for the past several years, perhaps I should have been less surprised about Canada in general.

I'm sure people older than me and better educated who better knew the Real Canada were better able to cope with this situation.