Open (More or Less) Post on Covid 53
Aug. 9th, 2022 01:25 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)

(Yes, the change in image theme reflects that; the earlier sequence served its purpose. With a nod to El Gato Malo (1, 2, 3), the posts to come will be headed by thoughtful memes relevant to the Covid mess. Yes, I'll take nominations -- you can post links in the thread.)
So it's time for another open post. 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, the floor is open for discussion.
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Date: 2022-08-09 06:42 pm (UTC)- over 20 drunk driving tickets issued in a rural area spotted with towns over one weekend
- pregnant woman attacked with brick by stranger while walking with her daughter downtown in broad daylight
- hospitals closing for periods of time due to "staff shortages"
- businesses closing due to staff illnesses
- a weird combo of a glut of certain products (yoghurt - dairy & grassfed) followed by empty shelves (milk - goat, soy)
I don't know if you all noticed the media's coordinated attack with mass publication of the title that goes something like: over half of communicable diseases are made worse by climate change. Together with "fact-checkers" feeble attempts to stem the flow with statements like, "study showing vaccinated are ill and contagious for longer was taken out of context." Followed by twitter trending that we should all expect many more mosquitos in the coming years, to which I can't help but remember our mad scientists' dreams of turning the blood sucking insects into vaccines...
Plenty of freedom flags flying here, too. My 4 times vaccinated parents and grandparents are going along just fine.
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Date: 2022-08-09 08:42 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2022-08-10 03:12 am (UTC)