Open (More or Less) Post on Covid 54
Aug. 16th, 2022 01:46 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
ecosophia
As we move further 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. 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.
A New Literary Genre!
Date: 2022-08-16 09:20 pm (UTC)As of today, my list of worthy examples of this new genre is up to 3:
"My Gratitude For the Apologies and Sincere Expressions of Regret"
BY THOMAS HARRINGTON
August 16, 2022
https://brownstone.org/articles/my-gratitude-for-the-apologies-and-sincere-expressions-of-regret/
"How Are You Doing?"
By KATHLEEN DEVANNEY
July 12, 2022
https://devanneykathleen.substack.com/p/how-are-you-doing
"What I Really Want to Say to My Normie Friends and Family"
BY ELEPHANT CITY
May 15, 2022
https://elephantcity.substack.com/p/heres-what-i-really-want-to-say
-- Ash-Pink Rotating Griffinosaurus
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Date: 2022-08-17 01:26 am (UTC)Re: A New Literary Genre!
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Date: 2022-08-17 02:08 am (UTC)I have tested positive for covid.
It's not too bad
I am so thankful to be vaccinated and boosted!
I am following guidance and isolating
Everyone stay safe and get boosted!
Translation: How wonderful and important I am as I model most fashionable behavior for you
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Date: 2022-08-17 02:55 am (UTC)Like the White Feather Society!
sweetly out for blood.
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Date: 2022-08-17 04:24 am (UTC)It seems like a leftist type of strategy of controlling debate through shaping what can be said or objected to. For example: "I find this or that offensive, so you can't say it" etc.
My natural response is to recoil from that type of thing, and to let it go, because if they are challenged, then the next play from those who assume this sort of 'positional authority' or status for themselves is 'Nurse Ratched' style cruelty and tyranny to put one in one's place in the most condescending and humiliating way possible for additional sadistic thrills.
I'm not sure it's a good idea to let the 'Little Eichmanns' who assume that they hold a position of power over us get away with it, no matter how well intentioned they may think they are - and I am not convinced that people who do that sort of thing actually do have good intentions, it's probably more that they are seeking a psychological kick from themselves from power/status/'likes' more than protecting society or whatever.
I don't have a good response for how to deal with them though - because although I don't particularly like having confrontations, especially in public; however, sucking it up and letting them get away with it seems like a bad idea because that might actually be contributing the disaster more broadly.
Does anyone have any tips?
Re: A New Literary Genre!
Date: 2022-08-17 03:46 pm (UTC)I have tested positive for dirtyelmoism. My fur is not too sticky and stinky, and I am taking baths and using Cookie Monster's clean towels and Miss Piggy's hairdryer. I am also following Big Bird's guidance and staying away from all other puppets, especially Kermit, until I can test negative. I am so thankful that I could be vaccinated against dirtyelmoism— and on TV! It's so great to be vaccinated, I feel like a big puppet! I hope everybody can be vaccinated!
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Date: 2022-08-17 03:46 pm (UTC)works very well
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Date: 2022-08-17 11:51 pm (UTC)Re: A New Literary Genre!
Date: 2022-08-17 11:54 am (UTC)Part of me wants to graph the relative prevalence of these two words in the pseudo-haiku you mention ;)
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Date: 2022-08-17 03:47 pm (UTC)Re: A New Literary Genre!
Date: 2022-08-17 08:39 pm (UTC)I got jabbed eight times!
And yet, I still got Cooties.
--Grateful, PMC
(With luck, a limerick will come to me later-- that form is better suited to ridicule....)
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Date: 2022-08-17 09:08 pm (UTC)Even though I've been three times infected
I still feel aloof
When I'm down with the coof
I'm alive so I must be protected!
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Date: 2022-08-17 09:19 pm (UTC)gentle but pointed
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Date: 2022-08-17 09:26 pm (UTC)Murmuration
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Date: 2022-08-17 10:08 pm (UTC)The feverish blue-checked faithful
Are always exceedingly grateful
On Twitter they blab
That they got triple-jabbed
(to suggest that's not wise would be hateful)
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Date: 2022-08-17 11:39 pm (UTC)The pol who finds out he's infective
Must follow the central directive:
Cheerful but terse:
"It could have been worse!
And the vaxes are safe and effective!"
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Date: 2022-08-18 01:59 am (UTC)He claimed the was much wiser
He took the clot shot
Oh the symptoms he got
Covid did in that old miser
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Date: 2022-08-17 02:19 pm (UTC)Allow me to consider. . .
Upon finding myself holding an 'outsider' understanding of topic X, I used to believe that it was possible to convince others of the rightness of my understanding and strategies for handling it.
If only I could just get the others to grok my reasoning they would surely agree. . .
Well, now that almost everyone in my city has accepted the clotshots, I no longer think that way.
I believe it was Paul Kingsnorth who said that covid is 'apocalyptic' in the original ancient Greek sense of the word meaning that it is 'revelatory', and I have indeed had a revelation that explains my consistent failure to talk anyone around to my way of seeing things.
In hindsight it's pretty obvious: I might as well have been talking to octopuses for the last 30 years.
Sure I've wasted my life, but at least the failure to grok hasn't been mine - it's been the pussies' :P
Re: A New Literary Genre!
Date: 2022-08-17 03:55 pm (UTC)I hear you. I really do, because I feel this, too. I'm so disappointed, grossly disappointed, in almost everyone around me. But I also know, because I myself have been keeping a very low and quiet profile, that a lot of people might be thinking things that would surprise you. They just aren't speaking openly. And a lot of people, and maybe not the ones you'd expdect, may yet change their minds. Tomorrow, or in time. Meanwhile, I believe that while it's crucial to face reality (and this can be terribly painful-- for me now it IS-- reality being that almost everyone in my world drank gallons of Koolaid, and they're still chugging it) but, at the same time, to stay curious. To stay open to surprise. To stay open to miracles. This is what I tell myself. And I need to remind myself every day: STAY CURIOUS.
Re: A New Literary Genre!
Date: 2022-08-18 12:33 am (UTC)This takes me back to when I was a kid at the drive in: my younger siblings were asleep in the back seat and I was so obsessed with trying to wake them up so they wouldn't miss out that I ended up missing out as well :)
I agree that it's important to face reality, and for me at least, part of that is facing the fact that I live in a city of people who's thinking is so alien to mine that we might as well be a different species. That's not as bad as it sounds - it frees me from exhausting efforts to try to connect with them and reach a common understanding.
Now I feel more at liberty to just be me and to not concern myself so much about them, which gives me more scope to being open to the world around me as you suggest, and that promises to be a lot more relaxing, hopeful and interesting.
I've always been an outsider, so they never really liked me anyway, so no loss all around.
Sure it's a bit cheeky, but it's also actually a little pleasant :P
Re: A New Literary Genre!
Date: 2022-08-17 10:52 pm (UTC)It seems to not matter at all for many how one addresses the topic of concern (and my issue was always more the emerging techno-utopian totalitarian society for which the jab is an initiatory loyalty gesture).
To the dedicated bluetarian, calling the jab Trump's Warped Speed simply blows a circuit. I plan on one more try and then, as above suggested, send the occasional postcard.
Re: A New Literary Genre!
Date: 2022-08-18 06:05 pm (UTC)>that thousand people includes all the obese people, the people who haven’t exercised in decades, the people who live on Big Macs and Big Gulps, and the people with horrendous chronic diseases. Those people.
No one reading is any of *those* people, of course. /s
I rarely use obscenities but right now I wish I could use several. That writer really comes off as a pretty nasty, antisocial snob here.
**It is OK to be a little nerd.**
It is OK to be an awkward, shy, bullied, bespectacled, asthmatic, little kid who gets tired when forced to run around, has allergy attacks when forced to go outside, and just wants to sit in the corner with a book. (Even a programming book!)
Nobody particularly chooses to be that type of little kid, but nobody chooses not to either, because it's not a choice. You are that way or you're not. And it's OK to be who you are.
I mean, to quote George Orwell (about his own child self, remember):
>Even a creature that is weak, ugly, cowardly, smelly and in no way justifiable still wants to stay alive and be happy after its own fashion.
[obscenities redacted]
--Ochre Shabby Sea Serpent
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Date: 2022-08-19 12:38 am (UTC)*I'm so sorry, that song is just terrible, but the music video had made me laugh really hard. I'm so glad to learn Rebecca Black has a good sense of humour about herself... that is the only way she could have survived her internet fame.
Re: A New Literary Genre!
Date: 2022-08-19 04:12 am (UTC)A decade and a bit ago, I worked in a studio that partied pretty hard on Fridays. For three months straight, someone, somewhere across the cubicles would crank that song at 5pm. That was the hard liquor bell ringing. Wacom pens down! Party on!
Murmuration
*walks away humming…🎵gotta get down on Friday!🎵…*
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