Open (More or Less) Post on Covid 11

The semi-open posts  I've hosted here on the Covid-19 narrative, the inadequately tested experimental drugs for it, and the whole cascading mess surrounding them have continued to field a very high number of comments, so I'm opening yet another space for discussion. 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 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, as we watch the reports of fatal and crippling side effects of the vaccines mount up, and more and more of the vaccinated report suffering from "the worst cold ever," the floor is open for discussion.  

Covid Good News and Resources Post

In last weeks semi-open post on the Covid situation, several people posted stories of things going right in the middle of the current mess. Some had seen unvaccinated people reaching out to support one another, some had succeeded in getting exemptions from vaccine mandates, some had quit or been fired and landed on their feet in new and better jobs, and so on. One reader also posted a link to a job board where companies that aren't requiring vaccinations are looking for people to hire. Amid all the increasingly grim news, those were welcome bursts of hope. I asked if my readers wanted a post specifically for such things, and the response was by and large positive. 

So here we are.  This is a place to post two kinds of comments. The first are your own upbeat and encouraging stories, to help other people get past the hopelessness that's being pushed so hard by the corporate media, and give all of us a place to recharge before plunging back into the fight. The second are resources -- job boards are a good example -- so those of us who reject vaccine mandates have some help dealing with the consequences of obeying our conscience and common sense instead of the mass media. 

Note #1: no content advocating the commission of any illegal act will be put through. Back in my misspent youth, the counterculture types I knew had a standard response when somebody tried that: "Anyone who advocates illegal activity in a public forum is either a moron or an agent provocateur.  Which are you?" 

Note #2:  I will be moderating this comment thread very strictly indeed. If I think you're trying to derail it from its intended purpose, your comment will be deleted. If you try that repeatedly you will be banned. If you think that's unfair, tough: my journal, my rules. 

With that, let the conversation begin!

Update: I've just had half a dozen people try to post things unrelated to the theme of this post -- some of it material that belongs on the open post, some of it material that's entirely off topic. This has put me in an irritable mood, and when I'm in an irritable mood I do things like banning people from my forums for life. Don't push it.