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: More thoughts on reconciliation

[(Anonymous)]

I hear you, Murmuration. Don't get me wrong; while I am all for reconciliation with the "ordinary people" and even those who have harmed us who out of either blind obedience to the authorities or fear of punishment by the authorities for stepping out of line, I do not have an iota of compassion for those who are orchestrating the evils that are being visited upon us. I am among the half who are mentally gearing up for the pitched battle that we may be facing as soon as this autumn. But I am determined that while fighting monsters I myself do not become a monster. I hope others feel the same way; if not, the world (and especially our much-abused nation) can become an even uglier place than it has already been as of late.

Ron M

Re: More thoughts on reconciliation

[(Anonymous)]

I wrestle with the monster part. The world is better without them. I don’t want to be one either. I’m about one of the most mellow people you’d meet in person. My fuse is very very long. But woe to those around when it goes off 🤣

Where I wrestle with the monster part is this: looking to history, sometimes a people need monsters. To make it through a moment, a challenge. Sometimes people need that subset of actors who can face darkness, participate with darkness, and be sacrificed to darkness so that the rest make it through. It’s not ideal, but sometimes Gotham just needs a Batman. I think those in the military, who take on the warrior archetype know this innately. Frequently warriors do the trick. They are enough. But in those moments that are knock down, drag out, there-can-be-only-one times, you want to know there are monsters who will throw sand in the face, gouge the eyes, and take a 2x4 to the intruders head.

I hope it doesn’t come to this. I’d prefer a long happy life in the garden. But if my girls need a monster in the decades ahead, I won’t hesitate.

My gut says we are getting backed into that corner and monsters may be necessary to get out.