Open (More or Less) Post on Covid 29
Feb. 22nd, 2022 02:04 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
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.
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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.
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Date: 2022-03-01 05:24 am (UTC)as far as the pivot to non-stop war, i have a feeling that will be much shorter lived than covid.
https://gilbertdoctorow.com/2022/02/26/the-russian-way-of-war/
https://www.theautomaticearth.com/2022/02/debt-rattle-february-27-2022/
click "read more" on tae and scroll down to the twitter stuff showing that the pictures have been used years ago, and are being re-used to get everyone riled up. somewhere else i saw one that was "a little ukranian girl standing up to a russian soldier" that was actually a palestinian girl standing up to an israeli soldier from a while ago. funny how nobody in the pmc got all exercised about that one the first time it hit the interwebs.
and miss ukraine posing with a rifle on twitter? one of those 10,000 rifles passed out to citizens to resist the evil rooskies? what if they were passed out to banderites and azov types to settle scores with "russian sympathizers" that will be plastered all over our media to make the rooskies look like eviller than absolute evildoers that slaughter civilians? the champions of democracy never do anything like that. since there are no credible media boots on the ground, or even for the most part "accredited" ones, who can really tell?
did putin say "it turns out i'm really good at killing people" or what that some other guy? just asking for a friend.
i know, it may be shocking to find out that our media is doing a half-assed job of lying to us. the average joe has done about a 1/16th of a job holding them accountable for lo these many years, so i guess we can't really blame the media for slacking off. that and cost cutting, the mantra of the corp.
we have 5 or so days before the us convoy gets to dc. the "war" may be over by then, and we will get yet another distraction until we circle back to the outbreak of covid caused by those domestic terrists that supported the convoy...
ymmv. yet we will, eventually, end up at the same place no matter how fuel efficient our vehicle is.
- p coyle