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: Well, this just feels SUPER weird

[(Anonymous)]

Yes, it feels very WEIRD to me also.

For a hot take, I found what A Midwestern Doctor had to say interesting-- here is an excerpt from the conclusions:

https://amidwesterndoctor.substack.com/p/did-the-cdc-just-end-covid-19#%C2%A7conclusion

"I believe there are a major lessons should be taken from all of this.

"First, all of us are making a big difference. If the anti-mandate movement was not as strong as it is (such as the thriving community on substack), there would not have been enough political pressure to have the CDC reverse these policies.

"Second, this should once again illustrate how arbitrary and subjective most of the CDC’s guidelines were. Many of the medical guidelines were are forced to follow are a product of corruption and are treated as law even though they have no legal basis for being law. If the guidelines seem nonsensical, do not comply with them.

"Third, this is most likely a strategic retreat. If we let our guard down and become complacent, it is very likely they will be brought back during the winter (as respiratory viruses always get worse at this time, largely due to decreases of Vitamin D throughout the population). I have seen anti-mandate groups I have worked with splinter apart from personal agendas taking over the direction of the group once the fear of a biosecurity state waned because some of the pandemic policies were relaxed. In the CNN article, it was even acknowledged that many of the more pandemic obsessed states like California will continue to require much stricter COVID-19 policies."

The above ext is an excerpt from:

"Did the CDC just end COVID-19?"
by A Midwestern Doctor
August 11, 2022

https://amidwesterndoctor.substack.com/p/did-the-cdc-just-end-covid-19