Open (More or Less) Post on Covid 29

[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 -- to understate the matter considerably! -- 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 Canadian officials launch a campaign of reprisals against citizens who supported a peaceful protest against government policy, and the words "died suddenly" become the favorite media euphemism of our time, the floor is open for discussion.   

Comments

Re: More cracks in the narrative

[(Anonymous)]

Can’t watch it in Germany. What’s in it?

Re: More cracks in the narrative

[(Anonymous)]

Three couples are having dinner in a restaurant. They discuss uncomfortable questions about the efficacy of masking, vax mandates, and other pandemic measures. They make hilarious efforts to avoid saying anything that will provoke disagreement or open conflict. The subtext is that they are now coming to realize that the measures were of dubious value, but no one says this in so many words. They finally breathe a sigh of relief that they've talked about it.

Re: More cracks in the narrative

[(Anonymous)]

A group of couples out to dinner at a restaurant talk about their questions and doubts about COVID policies. All through it they keep warning each other to stop talking and display more and more over-the-top signs of anxiety. Finally one of them asks "Did any of us ever need the mask?" They all yell "No!" in horrified realization and the scene cuts to a montage of malefic imagery (and eclipse, time-lapse footage of a rotting rat corpse, etc) Then it comes back to the dinner scene and they say (paraphrasing) "Oh I'm glad I said it out loud. Of course we need the masks. Everyone is just doing the best they can and we'll all get through it together."