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John Michael Greer ([personal profile] ecosophia) wrote2022-10-25 11:44 am

Open (More or Less) Post on Covid 64

smudge goes thereAs we proceed through 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.   

Re: Offline for a while

(Anonymous) 2022-10-25 05:12 pm (UTC)(link)
This is a great point I’ve mentioned a few times when comments point to malice.

A large portion of people plain do not follow the news or think about what they are being asked or told to do. It is not that they are mindless drones, but rather that there priorities are focused already and frankly many people ive tried to broach the topic with just want to forget jt and move on now that restrictions are moot.

Like the truck driver job you mentioned manny careers, medicine included, completely burn people out and dont give them time to search for information. It’s unlikely you work 10-12 hours then want to sit online reading charged news stories.

I’m not sure if this forum would be interested in Adam Curtis, but he has often spoken of how with an increasingly ridiculous system people are more likely to check out instead of engage, especially when it is clear on some level that no one really knows what to do.

Re: Offline for a while

(Anonymous) 2022-10-25 10:30 pm (UTC)(link)
A point-- "with an increasingly ridiculous system people are more likely to check out"

This is true for me in that I no longer read the newspapers and magazines that I once did-- now, if I happen to cast an eye on one, I am quickly repelled. Ditto TV news, don't watch it.

On the oher hand, in a more general sense, I have not checked out, not at all, quite the contrary.

Re: Offline for a while

(Anonymous) 2022-10-26 01:26 am (UTC)(link)
Walking into a place where cable news is on is jarring. The advertisements themselves are so distracting.

Re: Offline for a while

(Anonymous) 2022-10-26 02:52 pm (UTC)(link)
Extricating ourselves from that environment is very helpful. It's like I've heard JMG mention, if you cut out your TV/distractions you have so much time.

Some weeks I find myself sucked into this forum or other substacks a bit too much, but it gets easier and easier to catch yourself and find time to do things of value.

For those checked out, I think it tends to be in that news environment, it's a constant barrage of competing information and conflicting events, it's honestly exhausting to watch TV news for more than a few minutes.