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: Pandora's box
Date: 2022-10-27 11:14 pm (UTC)Start journaling every day. Just write whatever comes to mind. Do it by hand and keep it private. Morning pages by Julie Cameron is the structure I've followed and its allowed me to stop BS'ing myself. Once that was clear, then I did the Octagon Society work JMG posted here to work through my anger at everything. I didn't want to make decisions based on anger.
Finally in the last two months I'm starting to make some new friends and I feel creative again. I still have anxiety about things in the world but I have peace and joy too now. This group here has been so helpful too just knowing I'm not the only way who saw what was happening in the beginning. Still shocked by how many just fell in line.
Re: Pandora's box
Date: 2022-10-31 07:28 pm (UTC)The pulling on a thread leading to an unravelling is so true. At a certain point there is just hunting information for the sake of it, which can be overwhelming and counterproductive. I keep reminding myself that this is really just the beginning and often we see change in hindsight.
Re: Pandora's box
Date: 2022-11-01 02:02 am (UTC)I sort of wish I hadn't tossed everything during a big freelance-Feng Shui cleanup.
I do remember the morning pages being helpful. This is certainly a consideration. Thank you. I didn't lose my creativity but I haven't made any
new friends yet and finally snapped the cord on two 'friends.'