Open (More or Less) Post on Covid 64
Oct. 25th, 2022 11:44 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)

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
Date: 2022-10-25 09:06 pm (UTC)Also, it brings to mind the idea that maybe I have a responsibility to try to inform people who haven’t had the leisure to inform themselves, in a friendly not antagonistic way. So I’ll give some thought to how I might best do that.
I suspect we’re facing a propaganda war that will go on for years and maybe decades. When one considers that the cigarette industry was able to gaslight and bamboozle the public for a solid half century, that seems like a real possibility. If we want to thwart the globopsycho agenda, we have our work cut out for us.
Re: Offline for a while
Date: 2022-10-26 07:39 am (UTC)Every day, I ask myself what to do, what to say-- and what not to do, what not to say. I have more clarity on this than I did a year ago, I can say that much.
Scorn and anger, I feel those too sometimes, but how perfect am I? I would want compassion from others, not scorn, when I am ignorant about something.
Anger comes from grief and fear. It has been hell watching almost everyone I know and love insist on injecting themselves multiple times with poison.