ecosophia | Open (More or Less) Post on Covid 56

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.

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I'm not dismissing the report, but one thing that should be kept in mind when any business, including a funeral home, reports an uptick in clients is all of the business closures that have happened in the last 2.5 years.

A LOT of small business owners closed for any variety of reasons - maybe the owner was close to retirement and chose not to keep working through covid, and/or they were hurt by pandemic regulations (leading to more clients choosing quicker, cheaper options even for a necessary service), and/or they couldn't find enough workers due to the "great resignation". It's possible that any given funeral director still in business is seeing an "uptick in business" due in part to the competition getting winnowed.

Again, I'm not dismissing the report out of hand, and we do know that all-cause mortality is up. But I do think we have to take any claims about "business up fifty percent" with a grain of salt, giving what's going on with all the business closures.

this is a very good point. i did some searching, and couldn't find any statistics on funeral homes going out of business.

i found a story about one that closed, but it was basically someone who planned to retire in june of '21 and due to the stress of covid rules decided to move it forward to september of '20.

another story from texas had this quote:

"'And we've heard from quite a few more peers that the number of cases that they're receiving are so overwhelming, that they're actually having [to] turn down families and asked them to please contact another funeral home because they just can't care for their loved one properly as they should be able to,' Lacy explained."

i've also seen some stories on financial sites about funeral home stocks (?!) being hot investments.

without any concrete data it's all conjecture, but i would think that excess dead people would be a boon for this particular niche business.

another interesting thing i found in my searching is that cremation is way up and burial way down. reports of homes being overwhelmed by the amount of cremated remains on site, including unclaimed ashes. and they think the cremation/burial rate will be radically different, even after covid has blown over (yeah, right).

but i agree that business closures could be a factor, either due to financial reasons, the hassle of dealing with covid restrictions, or due to the owner succumbing to the virus. without the data, we just can't know with any surety. what a world!

Open (More or Less) Post on Covid 56

Re: Interview with a Tasmanian funeral director.

Re: Interview with a Tasmanian funeral director.