Open (More or Less) Post on Covid 53

[ecosophia]

As we move into the second year of these open posts, it's pretty clear that the official narrative is cracking as the toll of deaths and injuries from the Covid vaccines rises steadily and the vaccines themselves demonstrate their total uselesness at preventing Covid infection or transmission. It's still important to keep watch over the mis-, mal- and nonfeasance of our self-proclaimed health gruppenfuehrers, and the disastrous results of the Covid mania, but I think it's also time to begin thinking about what might be possible as the existing medical industry reels under the impact of its own self-inflicted injuries. 

(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. 

Comments

Re: Reconciliation?

[deborah_bender]

"An immune system can only take so much fiddling, it seems to me."

That's my outlook.

Because of the year I was born, I received the DPTP combination as an infant, received the smallpox vac a few years later, got both versions of the polio vaccine when they came out, but I didn't get vaccinated for measles, mumps, or chickenpox because those vaccines didn't exist. I caught a mild case of chickenpox; escaped the others. I think the vaccines my parents (or the school system) made me get as a child were warranted, given how dangerous and widespread the diseases were that they were intended to prevent.

In my young and middle adult years I did not travel anywhere that required additional vaccines. So I didn't get any.

As an old person, I have gotten the tetanus booster twice (I don't want to get lockjaw from a rusty nail!); a flu shot about twice a decade; the shingles vaccine because both my parents came down with shingles in the same week and one of them suffered permanent nerve damage; and the old folks' pneumonia vaccine because my lungs are weak.

I received the Pfizer vaccine when it became available, knowing it was a risk. I generally avoid any drugs or treatments that have not been around at least ten years, but my lungs are susceptible and I didn't want to die alone in a frantic COVID ward where there were neither enough staff nor any effective treatments. So far, I haven't suffered any noticeable ill effects. That doesn't mean there were none, only that they haven't been severe enough to catch my attention.

The risk/benefit ratio of the boosters does not impress me, so I haven't taken any. I had to miss one conference because of that refusal, but it was no great sacrifice.