Open (More or Less) Post on Covid 54

[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.  

Comments

Re: Sam Harris

[(Anonymous)]

If someone is suffering from TDS to the point where hyperbolic and hypothetical children's corpses aren’t enough to turn you from the course then, we’ll maybe you have TDS. And maybe that level of vitriolic hatred has caused you to lose a step in otherwise clear thinking. As someone pointed out recently you don’t fight fire with fire. You fight fire with water. Not saying demons or vixens couldn’t be involved but just adding that angry people aren’t really know for clear thinking either.

Right! Right! That's a really good point. Many people seem to be running on extreme emotions these days. So it could be just psychology. I've even met TDS people here in Finland too. I only thought how weird it was to use all that mental energy on hating a man from a foreign country. It made no sense to me, so I didn't really think about it much.

-Juhani

Re: Sam Harris

[deathcap]

I had a very stupid drawn out internet argument with an Australian fellow on a message board I frequent a couple years ago that consisted with him essentially getting all worked up and calling me an idiot because I was an American who didn't think that the Donald was the absolute, horrid end of the world and didn't want to get up in arms about it. Half of the argument boiled down to "1. There isn't much I can really do about it anyway, yeah he's a dummy but I have more important and especially more local and relevant to me things to worry about and 2. Why on earth do you care, you don't even live here?"

Irritatingly someone else bumped the thread a couple weeks ago to gloat about how he was happy 'all those other people I don't agree with are leaving california' and gloat about his new electric car and how great it was. Australian dude didn't skip a beat to gloat about his electric car and how apparently his regurgitation of marketing material for it meant that I was '100% totally wrong' in a comment about the unfeasibility of transitioning the entire grid to them I made like...2 years ago.

I thought about replying, but then remembered that arguing with sanctimonious idiots on the internet is a waste of mental power so I just ignored him.