Open (More or Less) Post on Covid 56

[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

[(Anonymous)]

Perhaps of interest to everyone this winter: https://www.lowtechmagazine.com/2022/01/the-revenge-of-the-hot-water-bottle.html

[(Anonymous)]

Another more obscure item that I really recommend is a "Kelley Kettle." It's essentially a little rocket stove that burns small pieces of twigs. The flame heats a hollow-walled metal kettle that rests above the twigs, and what would normally be lost as exhaust instead heats the water. You can get a quart or so of boiling water in just minutes from a small collection of dead twigs. I recently used mine on a little camping trip, and man, if things get tight, this is a good thing to have in your inventory.

Combine that with a hot water bottle and things look just quaintly rustic instead of hopeless.

[(Anonymous)]

During WWII in occupied Netherlands, citizens received a scanty ration of firewood. They used their limited fuel to cook a stew and placed the hot stewpot under a lot of blankets at the foot of the bed. The retained heat continued to cook the food for a few hours and when the day got darker, people retired to bed and ate their dinner in a well-warmed bed.

Retained heat cookery takes a little practice, but it can save on fuel when done correctly. You can also use hay boxes to keep water warmish over night instead of letting it freeze while standing out in the open. Unfrozen morning wash water is awfully nice; also watering farm livestock from pails kept in a haybox overnight can make life easier in winter.

[p_coyle]

i am so getting one of these! already have a rubber hot water bottle. thank you for the tip!