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

[(Anonymous)]

I wonder if the Romans missed their games and the circus during/after the collapse?

Consider this a preview - at some point soon most of the sports, arts and other events will become either for rich only or very local. I would look for any local alternative, in a sane location of course.

Or you can just hope for a return to normal. Any day now...

[(Anonymous)]

Pretty much the Colloseum "survived" the Roman Empire collapse, in the sense that games were there but the quality was less and less.

https://www.worldhistory.org/timeline/Colosseum/

[methylethyl]

It seems likely that "return to normal" will just mean removing the mandates and finding that fewer people are attending anyway.

Recession will do that. Talking to relatives who are into gaming and cons and stuff... I had one tell me she wasn't planning to attend next year's con, or if she attended, well... already had all the autographs she really wanted so would just be there to hang out, not pay $$ for anything. Too expensive. Another, online gaming devotee, said he'd uninstalled all the games from his computer because he was having trouble paying the bills and needed to sit down at his computer and work out a household budget spreadsheet (and couldn't do it with the distraction right there).

That's just my family, but I'm getting the distinct impression that economic hard times, which we're in, are going to put the kibbosh on a lot of industry entertainment stuff, completely apart from Public Health Theater performances.

I'd like to think this might lead to a renaissance of old-fashioned, non-commercial forms of entertainment, such as group singing and picking, people getting together to play cards, old fogeys playing dominoes, and neighborhood-level sports for adults like, you know, the St. John Catholic baseball team vs. the St. Paul Lutheran team, winner to play the Rotary Club team next week... I feel like people genuinely enjoyed these sorts of activities, whereas most modern entertainment is geared toward mechanically pushing the dopamine button over and over, and has more of an anesthetic effect.

It could be good for us ;)

[(Anonymous)]

Have you tried pickleball yet? Apparently it's 'the thing' right now. A friend invited me, I tried it, and man it's fun! The line for the four courts was insane. I'm sure it's one of those trendy activities of the moment, but it was good seeing so many people out, in the world together, having fun. And the best part...not a single mask across probably 50-60 people.

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