Open (More or Less) Post on Covid 65
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ecosophia
As 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. Also, please don't drag in current quarrels about sex, race, religious, etc. No, I don't care if you disagree with that: my journal, my rules.
With that said, the floor is open for discussion.
(no subject)
Date: 2022-11-05 06:18 pm (UTC)https://t.me/covidbc/6142
(no subject)
Date: 2022-11-05 08:53 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2022-11-06 01:46 am (UTC)Recommended:
https://worldcouncilforhealth.org/resources/a-practical-approach-to-keeping-healthy-after-your-covid-19-jab/
https://covid19criticalcare.com/covid-19-protocols/i-recover-post-vaccine-treatment/
Shedding is also a thing.
I've been hearing good things about anise tea and pine needle tea.
Another sudden celebrity death
Date: 2022-11-05 09:06 pm (UTC)https://www.yahoo.com/entertainment/aaron-carter-dies-203011259.html
From drowning, it is claimed.
Re: Another sudden celebrity death
Date: 2022-11-06 02:44 am (UTC)Re: Another sudden celebrity death
Date: 2022-11-06 03:00 am (UTC)Other celebrity deaths have left me fairly cold. This one bums me out, because I can remember this guy from when he was a kid; it wasn't all that long ago.
Speaking of celebrities, in the bookstore the other day I found a memoir by actress Sharon Stone. It begins with an account of a stroke she had in September '21. Of course there is no mention whatever of *that* subject. The opening is pretty well written; I hope she wrote it herself.
Re: Another sudden celebrity death
Date: 2022-11-06 09:00 am (UTC)It's like a fit harbinger of things to come that, a 90's child voice artis dies in a batroom from what might be a drug overdose or a experiment gene therapy side effects, and a 90's sex-symbols memoirs start with a stroke that might be from the same gene-therapy.
Re: Another sudden celebrity death
Date: 2022-11-06 07:03 pm (UTC)I'm reading this great magazine (I think it's a Music Spotlight Special Issue) about Loretta Lynn right now, and pretty much everyone they mention that was one of her friends seems to have died under the age of 65 (including 2 of her 6 children and one grandson). Though it was the 60/70's and then car and plane crashes took a bigger role (though that did have it's comeback in the 90's/early OO's). When Conway Twitty died of an aortal abdominal embolism at 57, collapsing during one of his concerts (she collapsed a lot in her early career - they don't sleep or eat properly while travelling), she spent the night running back and forth between his bed and her husband - who had just had major heart surgery - as they just happened to be in the same hospital at the same time.
I suppose something has still changed, though; Loretta lived well to a ripe old age, and the whole magazine breaks from the format of her being some sort of singular star held up above the others, to being this bright light amongst this ecosystem of incredible people all doing the same thing and building on each other at the time. I have such a long list of albums and biographies to look up now from the 60's/70's heyday of country music - the time of Owen Bradley at Decca Records pioneering the Nashville sound and raising up pretty much every female country singer you can think of at that time.
She was a really wonderful person, who had no illusions about reality.
"I was never ashamed of not having an education... There was nothin' I could do about it. If there'd a-been something I coulda done about it, then I'd a-been ashamed."
On her husband, Doolittle, who married here when she was 15 (he 21; and it's not like she was "old for her age" he gave her a children's doll when they were dating, and got her pregnant before she even knew what that was), and cheated on her relentlessly, usually also beating her drunkenly, - she still also credits him with her career. Both are completely true: he bought her her guitar, encouraged her to play and sing, and acted as her agent, living in their car and driving around the country with her. (Also, she always hit him back, one time knocking out his two front teeth. She thought he would kill her, but he laughed and never got them replaced. He was proud of it.) She just says, "Just remember, I'm explainin', not excusin'." They stayed married until he died of diabetes when he was 69, but her daughter Cissie said, "She lived a lonely life, a lonely life and so did Dad."
Ah well. It ends with a short profile of one of her grand-daughters (she had 20 grandchildren - she was a grandmother at 34 - 24 great-grandchildren and 3 great-great-grandchildren when she died at 90) and her album with a bunch of the grandchildren of other musicians from Lynn's era (including Twitty's granddaughter). Tayla Lynn "spent years dealing with substance abuse, which she ultimately got through with the help of Loretta." She says she got out of the extreme depression by duetting with Loretta, and covering her songs. That's when she stopped going solo and joined with the other grandchildren to cover their grandparents' original collaborations.
Re: Another sudden celebrity death
Date: 2022-11-06 12:49 pm (UTC)I really had trouble wrapping my head around the idea that he had actually
written it..........
....the recall seemed so finely-attuned and the descriptive writing
so well done......
but then, why wouldn't he have written it......
I wonder if Bob is Foxxed and Boostered up - hard to imagine
They're loading syringes at the hanging
They're painting vaccine passports brown
The beauty parlour is filled with Tiffany Dover's relatives
Fauci is in town
Re: Another sudden celebrity death
Date: 2022-11-07 09:52 pm (UTC)Re: Another sudden celebrity death
Date: 2022-11-06 11:29 pm (UTC)Re: Another sudden celebrity death
Date: 2022-11-07 10:40 am (UTC)Re: Another sudden celebrity death
Date: 2022-11-07 04:24 pm (UTC)https://twitter.com/restoreorderusa/status/1588556212102082560
Re: Another sudden celebrity death
Date: 2022-11-07 12:28 am (UTC)Re: Another sudden celebrity death
Date: 2022-11-07 07:30 pm (UTC)Aaron Carter Says They Are Trying To Kill Him
https://beforeitsnews.com/alternative/2022/11/another-celebrity-gets-wacked-aaron-carter-says-they-are-trying-to-kill-him-in-unearthed-video-3783364.html
(no subject)
Date: 2022-11-05 09:52 pm (UTC)"I wish the NHS would stop stalking me to have another Covid vaccine. I don't want one. I only had them in the first place as a protest against the paranoid nonsense that some people were coming out with."
The response was:
"Not sure if the nominees for this year's Darwin award have been submitted yet. But I think this statement is in with a good shout."
LOL.
(no subject)
Date: 2022-11-06 01:42 am (UTC)In other words, these people drank the Koolaid but they've had enough now, thank you very much.
They're not asking questions because they just want to close the whole chapter, keep their peace of mind, and move on.
It's been interesting, how month by month things change...
Cestiosuarus
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Date: 2022-11-06 01:49 am (UTC)re: Shaman?
Date: 2022-11-06 03:11 am (UTC)Re: Shaman?
Date: 2022-11-06 12:40 pm (UTC)two-way radio (Dick Tracy radio? LOL)
or a report disproving the allegation......something absurd.........It's all a blur
Not too clear on the concept
Date: 2022-11-06 02:24 am (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2022-11-07 09:56 pm (UTC)Also, does anyone have any bandages? Or Tylenol? My head is killing me for some reason.
(no subject)
Date: 2022-11-07 10:16 pm (UTC)https://twitter.com/horrorads/status/1579929969106395136?cxt=HHwWgIClqfT7hO0rAAAA
(no subject)
Date: 2022-11-05 11:49 pm (UTC)I think that the best way to convey it would be to refer to a comment on Trish Wood's substack:
https://trishwood.substack.com/p/of-heretics-and-heroes/comment/10174505
I agree with the commenter that perhaps it's no coincidence that the conference took place during the Emergencies Act Inquiry, because the two are spiritually linked.
As anyone will know who's been following this week's testimony by Convoy organizers, one of the dominant themes that emerges is the way that the Convoy brought hope to so many people. The Convoy broke the Narrative with a message of love, not fear. There are thousands and thousands of people who feel the same way as you.
I felt that for me, as a physician, last weekend broke the Narrative in a bit of a different way, which is, it's not possible to believe any longer that doctors, lawyers, professionals and academics who see a problem with the past 3 years are a "small fringe minority".
I described the weekend to several friends as "healing", but to misquote Sam Gamgee, "that don't do it justice by a long road". I believe (literally) that the atmosphere was supernaturally charged with a spirit of unity and humanity. Prior to the weekend, one might say that I saw through a glass darkly; now I see clearly that there are many others, from everywhere, on this journey, and the time for being afraid is past.
If you get a chance to attend anything like this, please do. You won't regret it.
A highlight of my life was hanging out with Jay Battacharya in his hotel room, which goes to show that when you step out on a path that you know is right, even if it seems scary, incredible doors get opened.
P.S. I met up with a doctor friend of mine at the conference. This friend had lately come from his class reunion. He told me, "Initially I didn't even want to go to my reunion, I didn't want to have to get in arguments with people and so forth. And do you know what happened? The whole evening people were coming up to me saying, 'Hey, you know what, you were right the whole time.'"
(no subject)
Date: 2022-11-06 01:23 am (UTC)Cetiosaurus
(no subject)
Date: 2022-11-06 02:52 am (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2022-11-06 03:22 am (UTC)To hear your report of the "spirit of unity and humanity" in a context other than a convoy is heartening. Gradually, in its own way, and in its own time, this spirit is spreading.
"The time for being afraid is past." Indeed. Indeed!
Ron M
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Date: 2022-11-06 05:33 am (UTC)Good for you Bofur. But no one is saying that to me in my neck of the woods.
And I'm dreading the state legislature here (Washington state) adopting the quax as part of the childhood vaccination schedule per the CDC. My younger daughter's pediatrician is fully on board already with the quax (my ex. adores this doctor, so I can't change that) and the new recommendation will not help. I've basically threatened bloody murder if my 12 year-old gets the quax (she want's it for social reasons). The private school she attends follows the state recommendations like a weather vane, and I dread what the school administration might decide.
--Lunar Apprentice
(no subject)
Date: 2022-11-06 06:53 pm (UTC)Watching the convoy testimonies is turning out to be wonderful.
Is there anything online from your conference?
Well blow me down
Date: 2022-11-06 12:31 am (UTC)The gods are not happy with this lot
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=JFVugCsIsro
Re: Well blow me down
Date: 2022-11-06 01:20 am (UTC)Re: Well blow me down
Date: 2022-11-06 01:58 am (UTC)Re: Well blow me down
Date: 2022-11-06 02:48 am (UTC)Re: Well blow me down
Date: 2022-11-06 03:17 am (UTC)Ron M
Re: Well blow me down
Date: 2022-11-06 12:32 pm (UTC)The unworkability in this moment is not a sign of unworkability....in a future series of moments....
There is something to be said here, I am circling and getting close, .....not sure I have it.
Re: Well blow me down
Date: 2022-11-06 04:04 pm (UTC)(this was meant to be Boy King's thoughts......)
Re: Well blow me down
Date: 2022-11-07 06:56 pm (UTC)But I do at least know a pulley/plumbing expert (it's important to have many tradeable skills in a deindustrial future).
Re: Well blow me down
Date: 2022-11-06 04:25 am (UTC)Re: Well blow me down
Date: 2022-11-06 10:33 am (UTC)Re: Well blow me down
Date: 2022-11-07 05:25 pm (UTC)https://twitter.com/JackPosobiec/status/1589013009858723840?cxt=HHwWgIDUwbu6p40sAAAA
(no subject)
Date: 2022-11-06 01:06 am (UTC)https://twitter.com/CryptoSplurge/status/1589007901594898435/photo/1
(no subject)
Date: 2022-11-06 08:52 am (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2022-11-06 09:20 pm (UTC)Maybe I am old school -- or have read too many epics -- but I would only feel comfortable in declaring victory if the enemy is dead, decapitated and the head thrown in one direction and the body in another.
Ron M
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Date: 2022-11-07 03:37 am (UTC)Murmuration
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Date: 2022-11-07 11:28 pm (UTC)Ron M
(no subject)
Date: 2022-11-08 12:29 am (UTC)Murmuration
(no subject)
Date: 2022-11-07 07:48 pm (UTC)Vaxx Injuriies / Adverse Reactions
Date: 2022-11-06 01:18 am (UTC)Brenden Joyce
First Dose of Moderna on 08/24/2021
Second Dose of Moderna on 09/25/2021
Fremont, California
47 yrs old
EXCERPT:
"I am sharing my story in the hopes of being heard and finding what kind of options there are for a case like mine."
READ THE COMPLETE Q & A
https://www.realnotrare.com/post/brenden-joyce
Re: Vaxx Injuriies / Adverse Reactions
Date: 2022-11-06 02:51 am (UTC)https://www.mayoclinic.org/diseases-conditions/giant-cell-arteritis/symptoms-causes/syc-20372758
COPY-PASTE:
"Giant cell arteritis is an inflammation of the lining of your arteries. Most often, it affects the arteries in your head, especially those in your temples. For this reason, giant cell arteritis is sometimes called temporal arteritis.
Giant cell arteritis frequently causes headaches, scalp tenderness, jaw pain and vision problems. Untreated, it can lead to blindness.
Prompt treatment with corticosteroid medications usually relieves symptoms of giant cell arteritis and might prevent loss of vision. You'll likely begin to feel better within days of starting treatment. But even with treatment, relapses are common.
You'll need to visit your doctor regularly for checkups and treatment of any side effects from taking corticosteroids."
Re: Vaxx Injuriies / Adverse Reactions
Date: 2022-11-07 03:09 pm (UTC)https://phmpt.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/11/5.3.6-postmarketing-experience.pdf
5.3.6 Cumulative Analysis of Post-authorization Adverse Event Reports
see page 24
Table 7 AESIs Evaluation for BNT162b2
under "Vasculitic Events"
There were 32 cases, of which there were 3 cases of giant cell artertitis.
In addition, Appendix I Adverse Events of Special Interest page 4 (which corresponds to page 33 of the document) , giant cell arteritis is also listed.
Anyone with such symptoms after their jabs might want to take this document with them. This the Pfizer document Pfizer wanted to keep secret, but a US judge ordered it released. The full story of that legal case is here:
https://phmpt.org/
(no subject)
Date: 2022-11-06 02:46 am (UTC)imagination / misunderstanding / hopeful thinking?
I'm a bit surprised (if it is true) that there have not been bonfires in the streets.
https://twitter.com/JDTomba/status/1588976658563756032/photo/1
(no subject)
Date: 2022-11-06 08:57 am (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2022-11-06 04:02 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2022-11-06 03:53 am (UTC)What needs to be said is that, more often than not, it is exactly the same pill made by the same manufacturer being sold for widely different prices.
Even comparing the US and Canada, the prices are often very different. For example, Jublia (Efinaconazole), a liquid antibiotic to treat toenail fungus, wholesales for about CDN $100.00 (US $75) for an 8 ml bottle. For a 4 ml bottle in the US, made by the same manufacturer, the wholesale price is US $750.00 (CDN $ $1000.00). Ten times the price for half as much.
As for the future of pharmaceuticals, I can suggest an easy fix that will take care of a lot of such problems: Allow local pharmacies to make from scratch their own preparations of prescription drugs.
As a recent example, I remember when Albuterol nebulizer pods went off patent--
A pack of 30 generic pods sold for about $25.00 at the time. Then, a pharmacist started manufacturing pod-filling equipment, empty pods, a sealer, and albuterol powder by the pound. Pharmacists who bought this setup could manufacture pods with the same content for about $3.00 a box. We sold them for $10.00 a box, far undercutting the generic manufacturers.
Unfortunately, it all came to a sudden end when, by a freakish coincidence, all the generic Albuterol pod makers lowered their wholesale prices to about $6.00 a box! Shortly after, additional regulations were put into effect prohibiting local pharmacies from compounding generic products that were otherwise commercially available--Unless they apply for a manufacturer's license and pay for the required extra licenses and inspections.
This one-two punch put most of us pod-makers out of business, and prices for generic pods began to inch up after that.
It is still possible to skirt the restrictions for things like this. If a prescriber writes for 0.090% pods (instead of the standard 0.083%) they can still be legally compounded.
With the current environment of rolling shortages of many types of prescriptions, combined with increasing transport costs, I can see that we will need to go back to a model of making our own Rxs from local ingredients. Probably there won't be as many types of meds, but don't be surprised if they are cheaper...
Supercomputers, models, machine learning and reality
Date: 2022-11-06 06:50 am (UTC)Or did they?
Re: Supercomputers, models, machine learning and reality
Date: 2022-11-06 06:57 pm (UTC)Re: Supercomputers, models, machine learning and reality
Date: 2022-11-06 07:41 pm (UTC)Re: Supercomputers, models, machine learning and reality
Date: 2022-11-06 10:03 pm (UTC)Pandemic, Bovid, Lock Down and Peak Oil Science and the next begging for amnesty
Date: 2022-11-06 08:40 am (UTC)https://peakoilbarrel.com/us-august-oil-production-at-post-pandemic-high/#comment-748473
It makes for an interesting reading, I would follow Gerry, Mike and Ron, LTO Survivor
If Permian just slows down then, the entire way of living business as usual is over and done in US and pretty much everywhere within Global American Empire sphere.
I think this is very important because it relates with the whole post-pandemic, post-lockdown, post-waxxine tinder box atmosphere, and when everyone and their pundits mentions civil war like is the next Thanksgiving.
An oil crisis in US just when the SPR is at historic lows would be catastrophic. And I can see the PMC class begging for amnesty, that they didn't know better. Check the comments in the thread there people working in oil for 60 years say it loud and clear.
Another of commenters who worked in the field :
what gives? is this the reason why the Russians and the Chinese buy time?
Maybe our generous guest will open a thread on these matters.
Re: Pandemic, Bovid, Lock Down and Peak Oil Science and the next begging for amnesty
Date: 2022-11-06 07:01 pm (UTC)That being sad, sooner or later it will all come crashing down, so why not tomorrow?
Re: Pandemic, Bovid, Lock Down and Peak Oil Science and the next begging for amnesty
Date: 2022-11-06 08:05 pm (UTC)Green energy metrics are just hopeless when you dig in.
Do all civilisations in decline start doing things that look like deliberate suicide?
Re: Pandemic, Bovid, Lock Down and Peak Oil Science and the next begging for amnesty
Date: 2022-11-06 09:05 pm (UTC)Re: Pandemic, Bovid, Lock Down and Peak Oil Science and the next begging for amnesty
Date: 2022-11-06 11:03 pm (UTC)Re: Pandemic, Bovid, Lock Down and Peak Oil Science and the next begging for amnesty
Date: 2022-11-07 06:58 am (UTC)https://rumble.com/v1dm5yr-fmr.-greenpeace-president-says-the-elites-have-a-suicide-pact-to-reduce-the.html
Re: Pandemic, Bovid, Lock Down and Peak Oil Science and the next begging for amnesty
Date: 2022-11-07 07:30 pm (UTC)He briefly mentions an elite death wish, or a suicide pact. I've long had a sneaking suspicion, which I haven't meditated much on to be honest, that a death cult, along the lines of the Aztecs or Temple of Doom, has gained control of the levers of power. It would not shock me in the least to find out that there is an intention to offer a gargantuan sacrifice to whomever they worship.
Re: Pandemic, Bovid, Lock Down and Peak Oil Science and the next begging for amnesty
Date: 2022-11-07 06:49 am (UTC)From someone who believes in divination, I don't think the same.
Also someone would have argued that it is impossible to know the waxxine effect and what might happen in the future, the whole thread we are speaking on...
Re: Pandemic, Bovid, Lock Down and Peak Oil Science and the next begging for amnesty
Date: 2022-11-07 08:11 pm (UTC)I think you will end up like other fools who thought the oil market is easy to predict, a whole lot poorer.
That the vaccines were bad news is child's play in comparison.
I gather your knowledge of oil is pretty much nil. Why not spent a delightful decade or two learning about it? The Oil drum archives is a good start.
Dr John Campbell UK
Date: 2022-11-06 01:18 pm (UTC)of late he has become quite distressed and world weary, there are limits to what he can express explicitly on youtube,
in his latest vid he lets EU and UK representatives do the talking and submits official data, he is very concerned by excess deaths and the establishments lack of reaction to this disconcerting data,
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9gstEyC0eMQ
Re: Dr John Campbell UK
Date: 2022-11-06 04:14 pm (UTC)Also he is hooked on YT, if he would have wanted to talk more truth he would have turned to rumble and changed his patronage to a freer platform, he is still on the fence 2 years latter not acceptable stopped following his videos.
Re: Dr John Campbell UK
Date: 2022-11-07 02:18 am (UTC)Note his product placement in the video: plastic bottles with large handwritten "Vit K2" and "Vit D" labels on the windowsill. Those are ugly; why not put them away before filming? Perhaps they're relevant to the topic somehow - relevant in some way that he thinks the censors would not like him to explain? Viewers accustomed to censorship regimes will quickly pick up on the oddity and, as JMG might say, treat it as a topic for meditation....
You suggest he go to Rumble, but that site is known for being alt-right and hosting a variety of misinformation. If that were his platform a lot of people would assume he was just another screaming extremist and never watch his videos. The fact that he's on YouTube addressing the general public, and doing so in a calm, careful, rational way, makes him far more believable. He doesn't wail about a new fear or rumor every week. He's all about facts and data. Here are the figures: what the government says has actually happened, about which anyone can speak. What could have caused them? He can't say. Which means, of course, that he just DID say. And he's not only telling us that he thinks there's a problem, but that he thinks he'd be silenced if he said so, which means there's another very severe problem at hand. The guy is brilliant.
-Translucent Jejune Octopus
Re: Dr John Campbell UK
Date: 2022-11-07 04:20 am (UTC)Well said!
I'm not a big fan, I've only watched a couple of his videos, but one I went so far as to transcribe because his silence, as he stared at the camera, was simply brilliant.
I think I posted this previously on this forum, but don't have the link handy, so here it is again:
# # #
EXCESS BABY DEATH INVESTIGATION
TRANSCRIBER'S NOTE: On his popular YouTube channel Dr. John Campbell discusses and educates on matters related to covid. Since the Pfizer document dump https://phmpt.org/pfizers-documents starting in 2021 [ https://phmpt.org/pfizers-documents ] he has become increasingly alarmed and critical of government policy in regards to covid jabs, however he has always been extremely careful to avoid triggering YouTube's censorship. He uses the word "jag" instead of jab, for example, and in one crucial instance, he simply says nothing while staring pointedly into the camera.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?app=desktop&v=wj4rE0LrpR0&t=626s
Posted October 20, 2022
TRANSCRIPT OF BRIEF EXCERPT
5:09
DR. JOHN CAMPBELL: [quoting newspaper] "Covid Scotland"-- This is another well-known Scottish NEWSPAPER, The Herald, reporting-- [quoting newspaper] "Covid Scotland: Vaccines ruled out in neonatal deaths spike" according to this report from the Herald.
[quoting newspaper] "Public health experts ruled out any link between spikes in neonatal deaths and the Covid vaccine".
But the Herald does note, this was [quoting newspaper] "without checking whether any of the infants' mothers had received the jag during pregnancy."
[quoting newspaper] "Experts stressed, no 'plausible' link to justify investigation of maternal vaccination status."
So they're saying there's no need to investigate the mums' vaccine status in these babies that have tragically died in the neonatal period. This is not necessary.
[quoting newspaper] "Public Health Scotland said its consultants had given 'careful consideration' to the 'potential benefits and harms' of carrying out such an analysis as part of its probe into the tragic deaths of 39 infants.'"
But concluded against doing so.
Public Health Scotland added— this is, so the Herald's got this from different bits and bobs from the Freedom of Information requests and other statements. They put it together.
[quoting newspaper] "A risk that 'identifying the vaccination status of the mother, even at aggregate level"
So in other words, that's not individuals [?] numbers, even that
[quoting newspaper] "would result harm to those individuals and others close to them"
Which of course we wouldn't want.
[quoting newspaper] "through actual or perceived judgement of the effects of their personal vaccination decision"
[quoting newspaper] "the outcome of such analysis, whilst being
uninformative for public health decision making, had the potential to be used to harm vaccine confidence at this critical time."
So information regarding this would be uninformative for public health decision making.
So NHS [National Health Service], this is a Freedom of Information response from Public Health Scotland, [quoting document, quoted in newspaper] "We do not have any plans to examine maternal vaccination status, as there is no public health reason to do so."
7:25
[Dr. Campbell turns and faces the camera directly and stares, in grim silence.]
7:26 [silence]
7:27 " "
7:28 " "
7:29 " "
7:30 " "
7:31 " "
7:32 " "
7:33 So it's reassuring to know, isn't it, that Public Health Scotland can be so confident in the safety of the vaccines.
7:41
[END OF EXCERPT]
Re: Dr John Campbell UK
Date: 2022-11-07 03:40 pm (UTC)Re: Dr John Campbell UK
Date: 2022-11-07 10:04 pm (UTC)In my view, Dr. Campbell is also treading just about the most difficult path imaginable (the razor's edge). It would be a lot easier for him to leave YT in a huff and join the numerous dissident doctors and scientists who are 'preaching to the converted' on other platforms. But what about the masses of people who belong to the 'mushy middle' and may be amenable to the truth if it is presented in a safe and non-confrontational way? To my mind, Campbell is not only brilliant, he is very compassionate. With every video he makes, he is going through a gauntlet of censors who would be more than happy to banish him to YT purgatory. But still he does it. And he has figured out the power of non-verbal communication. While I do not look to him for cutting-edge info, I do watch him from time to time for the sheer pleasure of watching an incredibly kind, caring man do his best to wake up as many people as possible. He was a nurse for most of his professional life; that nurse-like care for others at a very 'human' level shines through his very being. I see him as a beautiful soul and a hero in his own right - perhaps in his own category.
Ron M
Re: Dr John Campbell UK
Date: 2022-11-06 04:19 pm (UTC)He's obviously unnerved and the public comments on his last few You Tube videos are telling and particularly numerous.
Re: Dr John Campbell UK
Date: 2022-11-06 06:54 pm (UTC)Re: Dr John Campbell UK
Date: 2022-11-06 10:07 pm (UTC)Whenever one of these science journals is described as “prestigious,” I now feel my lip curl in an involuntary sneer.
Re: Dr John Campbell UK
Date: 2022-11-06 10:48 pm (UTC)Re: Dr John Campbell UK
Date: 2022-11-07 04:22 am (UTC)Re: Dr John Campbell UK
Date: 2022-11-07 06:14 am (UTC)Re: Dr John Campbell UK
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Date: 2022-11-08 02:56 am (UTC)Flame of Freedom Still Burning Bright in Alberta
Date: 2022-11-06 01:50 pm (UTC)Word got out about the court proceedings: add freedom-loving Albertans and mix and what have you got? A convoy! Truckers and civilians from all corners of the province converged on the small city of Lethbridge to show their solidarity. Plenty of police were also there (y’know, to prevent Armageddon or something). As far as I know, it was an entirely peaceful event. One protester held a huge sign which asked, quite logically: “If these men deserve 10 years for blocking 1 border for 2 weeks, how long should some politicians serve for blocking all of our crossings for a year?”
Rebel News had a strong presence at the event (it is also crowd funding the legal fees for the three accused protesters): https://www.rebelnews.com/convoy_supporting_truckers_charged_in_relation_to_coutts_blockade_heads_to_lethbridge?fbclid=IwAR0SZsESw7ftlL5FguWNb4_dlSXWE9akKzcSVJOOW6-yNbqWwV0uyyBH7ng
Though it has not been covered by the media (even alternative, as far as I know), freedom fighters in many cities across Canada did a 'slow roll' on Saturday in support of, and out of respect to, the three men accused in Alberta.
Also - though it does not directly tie in with the topic of this post - one of the unions of the Toronto District School Board went on ("illegal") strike on Friday (i.e., they are defying freshly created back-to-school legislation). Virtually all other school-related unions across the province have joined in, as well as many non-school unions. Naturally, trucker unions joined in the fray. Various unions are pouring money into the protest. And lots of parents are in full support. A strong mood of determined opposition to tyranny is brewing among an ever larger proportion of the populace. Coming soon: pitchforks and torches. If I were Premier Doug Ford, I'd be packing my bags and buying a flight to some remote corner of the planet just about now.
Honk honk!
Ron M
Re: Flame of Freedom Still Burning Bright in Alberta
Date: 2022-11-07 03:36 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2022-11-06 03:01 pm (UTC)You cannot hold onto the anger and resentment or it will make you sick. Releasing and clearing that energy is not forgiveness. It is healing and self-preservation. If you don’t do this, you will die mad like my tory cokehead stalker. How do you know when you’re ‘done’? Something Joe Dispenza says is useful here: “A memory without energy is wisdom.” When you recall what happened to you, or what people said about you, or the threats and coercions and other violences done to you, do the memories still have a ‘charge’? If so, then you need to be doing some energy releasing until they don’t.
https://runesoup.com/2022/11/dont-get-it-twisted-i-didnt-say-forgive/
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Date: 2022-11-06 06:13 pm (UTC)Thanks for sharing this!
Ron M
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Date: 2022-11-06 11:07 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2022-11-06 11:09 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2022-11-07 02:25 am (UTC)Wow. That just sent a chill down my spine, and made me realize how much work I still have left to do.
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Date: 2022-11-07 03:28 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2022-11-07 12:01 pm (UTC)https://runesoup.com/2022/11/living-in-a-world-without-sin-is-fatal/
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Date: 2022-11-08 04:23 am (UTC)Another update from one nursing student
Date: 2022-11-06 06:03 pm (UTC)Re: Another update from one nursing student
Date: 2022-11-06 06:27 pm (UTC)Re: Another update from one nursing student
Date: 2022-11-06 07:25 pm (UTC)I wish you all the best with your education, there is plenty of value in learning to care for people.
A friend of mine is a resident, where I found this type of attitude common, pre-vax so a bit different, but definitely very negative. I really admired her because she found the like-minded group and distanced herself when she felt that negativity was rubbing off on her. As a result, she found a great group of close friends and when conversations or topics stray to the negative she is quick to exit and sticks to her principles. I hope you find those people, assuming they are there, who also see the signs and don't want to fall into the spirals of doom.
Re: Another update from one nursing student
Date: 2022-11-06 08:20 pm (UTC)Re: Another update from one nursing student
Date: 2022-11-06 09:40 pm (UTC)Re: Another update from one nursing student
Date: 2022-11-07 04:12 am (UTC)This may also be your signal to find some new friends-- those who are not so unimaginative and spiritually lazy.
What kind of friends do you want to have as you go through life?
I am not minimizing how difficult things can be, I get that-- and all the more reason to buck up and use your powers.
Whether nursing school would be your best path for learning how to care for people I could not say, but I do recognize that there is something extremely perverse and dangerous going on the mainstream medicine right now.
As you requested, I will pray for you, and may you be blessed.
Thank you for your intentions to care for people. I have been in the hospital many times and I always, always appreciated the nurses who were kind and helped me.
Grumbling Grumbledore
Re: Another update from one nursing student
Date: 2022-11-07 03:15 pm (UTC)Grumbling Grumbledore
Re: Another update from one nursing student
Date: 2022-11-07 03:27 pm (UTC)This is wonderful Grumbling Grumbledore.
'Harnessing' the imagination to 'envision' possibilities is something many of us develop (or are developing) later in life (SAD COUGH).
This is a separate use of the imagination from 'creating' art works. It can go hand in hand and how wonderful that will be.
Re: Another update from one nursing student
Date: 2022-11-07 10:35 am (UTC)I've been doing the Octagon Society work JMG posted here and one of my realizations about many of the awful things I went through as a child and into my 20's is how much it made me the person I am today. I got to the point now in my mid-50's to be at peace with what happened. I hope the healing process is faster for you and I hope that your resolve doesn't diminish. That part of you holding on, do what you can to strengthen it.
David Bell Article on Really Big Lies
Date: 2022-11-07 02:25 am (UTC)Not only does he describe the current manifestation of the phenomenon but the long-term damage that it will do.
One of my favourite excerpts: “Standing on 2019 principles and practice, refuting the falsehoods [previously listed] has been sufficient for health practitioners to be denigrated and forced out of employment in many Western countries. This is the clear mark of fascism and is making the international public health field a specific threat to the health and welfare of others.”
Though it covers a lot of ground that is familiar to yours truly and many members of this group, I found the writing style to be refreshing and so felt inspired to sharing it.
Ron M
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Date: 2022-11-07 09:29 am (UTC)Instead of the pro-vaccinators making an actual appeal for an amnesty/forgiveness, perhaps what this represents is the bargaining phase of grief?
It seems pretty obvious that IF the pro-vaccinators have all made a terrible health mistake by getting vaccinated that they cannot become 'right' by receiving an amnesty, or forgiveness, from the anti-vaccination side. Instead, they'll have to work things through with nature/reality.
Surely, being 'right' in this case can only come from thinking and behaving in a way that comports with the facts/reality, so the whole forgiveness/amnesty proposition seems wrongheaded if what they are looking to achieve is safety and security. And of course, how we 'feel' about reality doesn't change the fact that it exists. Pleading with the oncoming hurricane is unlikely to help so much as seeking shelter. Similarly, the unvaccinated could wish the vaccinated all the well in the world as the storm approaches, and it won't mean a whole lot if the physical reality of receiving the shots is 'category 5' dangerous.
Same thing applies if events happen to go the other way of course.
Only the pro-vaccinated can make themselves in the 'right' if their perceptions/beliefs and actions are out of lockstep with reality. Fortunately for them, they also happen to be the ones with all of the institutions, politicians, media, etc. lined up on their side, so they are in a good place to change how they think and behave. After all, they are the ones with the power and msm authority, including presumably the power to amnesty themselves (the unvaccinated certainly are surely in a worse position to do that) if they wanted to. I guess all 'team vaccinated/pro-vaccinators' have to do is get over themselves and get motivated to do something different.
"Can we please all just let bygones be bygones and get along?"
Sure, if it helps get people moving, but the vaccinated really need to plead their case with nature/reality, not the unvaccinated, because concessions from nature aren't the unvaccinated's to give!
The vaccinated must realize this themselves, which seemingly supports the argument that what is happening is opening salvos of the bargaining process that the vaccinated need to go through before they can arrive at accepting the inevitable conclusion that nature/reality doesn't bargain, followed by going about the business of comporting with reality like all rational and logical people ultimately have to do after they have made a mistake.
But okay, if it helps the vaccinated feel any better to have my personal forgiveness then they have it. Now it's up to them to go out and make themselves 'right' with nature/reality, which is something that they have to do for themselves. And if the pro-vaccinators have actually made the worst of all terrible mistakes, then for whatever that's worth. I'll be around to hold their hands as events unfold.
This is a very strange time, with all sorts of strange behaviour due to stress, fear, isolation, and mountains of irrational thinking/logical fallacies etc., so if I've lost it a bit myself, I trust you'll all understand.
And whatever the case, and for whatever it's worth, I still plan on objecting to and resisting various aspects of this whole self-inflicted bio-techno authoritarian disaster.
The Ninth Mouse
Censorship and More Tech Layoffs
Date: 2022-11-07 11:02 am (UTC)I knew the censorship was bad, but didn't realize there were multiple teams focused on it. Easily 100 managers, plus who know how many direct reports.
Like clockwork, once the layoffs happened a huge surge in "the n word" was reported. The blue checks began fanning themselves like Scarlet O'Hara appalled, never once considering it could be bots or just people goofing off. My word, the elite are a bunch of pansies.
Now Facebook leaked that they are doing massive layoffs this week and I wonder if it will be made up of the same content moderators that Twitter had. If so, I expect the same kind of apoplectic response from the media.
I'm enjoying seeing their agony that their spaces they claim they fought to make safe are now soiled. So many of them are claiming that they are leaving and going to Mastodon but I have the feeling they'll be back. Their whole identity is based on punching down at normal people - finding someone who isn't towing the lib agenda and publicly shaming them into following it. If they are on a social network only with each other, not enough fresh meat for them. Maybe they'll circular firing squad faster.
Twitter firing the censors just prior to the election is interesting, and Facebook doing it right after (hopefully!) is interesting too. They've already said the vote counting will take at least a week which is ridiculous and insane since they've installed computerized everything now. Stay safe out there everyone!
Re: Censorship and More Tech Layoffs
Date: 2022-11-07 06:40 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2022-11-07 01:12 pm (UTC)https://t.me/wakingup1984channel/38980
(asked in EU if the waxxine was tested against transmission the Pftitzer representative said, they had to move to the "speed of science")
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Date: 2022-11-07 01:35 pm (UTC)https://www.news-medical.net/news/20221031/Italian-study-evaluates-COVID-19-reinfection-risk-among-previously-infected-and-vaccinated-individuals.aspx
There's nothing particularly noteworthy about the numbers, though it does show natural immunity to be better.
However this line in the background section is funny:
"Although disease mitigation measures suggested by the World Health Organization (WHO), such as lockdowns and mask-wearing, were effective, they have not significantly reduced transmission and mortality."
In what way can these measures be called "effective" if they have not significantly reduced transmission and mortality?
(no subject)
Date: 2022-11-07 05:07 pm (UTC)"Although wind farms were effective, they did not significantly reduce dependence on fossil fuels."
"Although our novel aircraft adhesive was effective, it was associated with a number of aerial wing separation events."
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Date: 2022-11-07 10:45 pm (UTC)I can imagine this wording being used. lol.
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Date: 2022-11-07 05:54 pm (UTC)Milkyway
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Date: 2022-11-07 05:59 pm (UTC)Total control of the public discussion spaces, fear-motivated restrictions on personal liberty, successfully forbidding people to congregate in oublic spaces, even in churches! Where they might preach contrary doctrines, sing and raise up enormous power like civil rights activists did 70 years ago! Can’t have that, can we? Unopposed violations of civil right and abrogation of health privacy laws were all achieved with far greater ease than our self-styled Master Faces desired in their wettest dreams of total dominion.
The masks thus proved effective in demonstrating that the masses can be easily coerced into carrying out irrational objectives without the expense and backfiring risks of sending in the billyclubs, boots and guns.
Very effective
Date: 2022-11-07 07:53 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2022-11-07 11:05 pm (UTC)Milkyway
Bitten
Date: 2022-11-07 02:13 pm (UTC)Making a weapon of war is one thing, tinkering with creation to make a weapon out of a living entity is another.
To say we’ve gone too far or sold our soul is just the
tip of the iceberg
VA Mtn Man
Re: Bitten
Date: 2022-11-07 07:45 pm (UTC)I'm probably not a good candidate to read such a book.
Now I'm thinking of A Hard Rains' a gonna fall.
Re: Bitten
Date: 2022-11-07 09:43 pm (UTC)Re: Bitten
Date: 2022-11-07 07:45 pm (UTC)erika
Re: Bitten
Date: 2022-11-07 09:46 pm (UTC)Re: Bitten
Date: 2022-11-07 10:46 pm (UTC)Re: Bitten
Date: 2022-11-07 09:44 pm (UTC)Turquoise Farcical Porpoise
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Date: 2022-11-07 02:18 pm (UTC)The more things return to normal, the more reluctant I am to return to the things I used to enjoy doing. Some of it is the places I was banned from not being jabbed, and knowing those places are filled with and run by people who likely wished me to die last winter. But mostly I just can't get enthusiastic about doing anything that involves large events or being in public places.
So much of what I enjoyed feels so empty and meaningless now. I don't know if its because I now see how many people are going through the motions of life, or if its the knowledge of how quickly people are willing to destroy everything for their ideological (religious?) reasons. I've gone to events again, that I went to every year for over a decade (even in 2020 with masks and thankfully didn't have vax passports in 2021) and this year in 2022 those events are so devoid of life. Things look like they did in previous years, but it just doesn't feel real anymore.
I don't know if any of this makes sense. I can't tell if it's a me problem or others have experienced it too. My vaccinated family still doesn't want to talk about the vax or what people are like out there or anything really. Covid is like the biggest dead elephant in the room suffocating everything.
It could be depression but I'm sleeping like normal, and dressing/showering and actually more productive than ever work wise. In fact I'd say I'm less depressed than I've been through most of the covid mess. Probably finally getting used to living in low-level anxiety.
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Date: 2022-11-07 05:18 pm (UTC)Immediate family life is full of joy (and challenge), the kid's school is worthwhile, this group here is highly engaging and entertaining, a small group of family friends (who had mixed beliefs over the past few years) is fun, work is enjoyable, but when I enter larger aspects of society, the drive to engage is like having no wind on a flat sea. I just can't bring myself to care, and not for lack of trying or desire. I miss large family gatherings, I miss cultural events, I miss music, I miss holiday celebrations, I miss museums, I miss feeling exasperated at politics. These are all extras for sure, and the important parts of life feel full, but it feels like being in a little bubble, seeing other bubbles float by, with no connection to a societal narrative. More than anything, I miss not feeling like I have to watch the news all the time, because if I don't, some crazy and dangerous thing may be in the process of being mandated.
I've wondered if it was depression as well, but this doesn't feel like it. The outcome seem the same, but the cause feels different. It's hard to verbalize, but you did a good job above.
Murmuration
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Date: 2022-11-08 01:09 am (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2022-11-08 10:58 am (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2022-11-08 04:37 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2022-11-07 05:32 pm (UTC)A lot of this resonates with my experience and I can only share what I've had success and failure with to hopefully help.
Unfortunately I received the primary series for a host of reasons at the time, but have since leaned on that to emphasize out how ridiculous this has always been and how it keeps carrying on in strange ways.
I've had the experience of the complete stonewalling of vax topics too with people close to me that I've had to accept while finding opportunities to ask questions that undermine assumptions, but it is not yet at a point of reflection unfortunately. People I've found largely want to move along and block it out, which I'm finding more funny than anything, because they seriously are flabbergasted as to why the political opposition is still harping on the impact and decisions made of past 2-3 years when they weren't even complying with the policies.
I've accepted that other people's mental state and what leads to their thoughts and beliefs is so far out of my control that holding onto the fear, grief, and pain hurts me and them. Instead I'm trying to live through example, to be a consistent questioner and doubter of the latest thing, to not shy away from activities or whatever else has been made taboo in the past to show that you do not need to go along with this constant fear and can think for yourself. It takes two to speak the truth: one to speak and another to hear.
As for groups and participation, I've found it very fun to join new groups, coming in without the baggage of knowing the individuals and there past actions to help steer things in a more open direction, with relative success. Maybe sticking with the same ones for now is like not letting go of an ex? Maybe it's never really possible to get over it or at the very least more space is needed.
As for low level anxiety and depression, forums like this one have been empowering for me in terms of being more productive than ever (maybe not at my job but that's a different story), with everything going on there is a drive to do something, to not let fear steer us and to maybe discover new things or rediscover old ones in a different setting. But there is also the sense of when will the dam burst for my own life and eventually I loop back to the need for patience and to know that if we stick on the desire for something, we often aren't working towards those goals.
Hope this helps, it has been such a crazy few years that I'd be skeptical of anyone who didn't struggle at one point or the other
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Date: 2022-11-07 07:32 pm (UTC)Prior to covid, I was always the host of holiday family gatherings. We haven’t done that since 2019. Just last week, my quadruple-jabbed sister asked me if I was hosting Thanksgiving this year. She’s going for her bivalent booster this week so she’ll feel ‘safe’ being around us unjabbed (unclean) folks, she says. I used to love the whole holiday season, starting with Thanksgiving and going through New Year’s, used to love the getting together to eat a meal and catch up. The thought of doing that now just leaves me cold. No interest whatsoever. Zip. Nada.
I think I’m decent at forgiving, but unfortunately for my sister and some others in my life, I have a memory like an elephant. I never forget. Your reluctance to go back to places you were previously banned from feels very familiar to me. I know I’m not ready yet. :/
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Date: 2022-11-08 10:55 am (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2022-11-07 07:44 pm (UTC)It didn't remove the loneliness but by gosh, by golly, I'm sure glad I did.
It didn't slam me (like an unwilling astronaut) into a cramped space where I didn't want to be.
I'm also reprioritizing my energies and expect, anticipate, new opportunities will develop.
It's all still very weird and I sympathize with your experience and the place you find yourself.
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Date: 2022-11-07 08:02 pm (UTC)-Aquamarine Invisible Moose
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Date: 2022-11-07 09:18 pm (UTC)i went through this by myself 11 years ago when i died as i was and i think this is a stage of disconnecting. earlier i was saying most of us go through this ALONE and thus we think it's ourselves, and we suicide out (actually or mentally or socially or legally).
i asked "what does it look like when we STAY?" and that's where YOU are NOW. i think that's why you CAN sleep./you're good with YOU. where you're at.
if you're who i think you are, you've been sad about the arts you loved, being closed off to you. and i said you're on the front lines of NEW ART.
even in YOUR EXPERIENCE NOW, you are already NEW ART.
Murmuration said the question of how to exist with those who wanna eradicate you (as you also put it) is THE seminal question. yes! but FIRST, i think the real SEMINAL QUESTION is where you're at:
WHAT HAPPENS WHEN I STICK AROUND AND DON'T POLITELY DISMISS MYSELF BY SUICIDING OUT???
this is like a prompt for a story writing class, it's got so many unknown possibilities, depending on your angle or assumptions or beliefs.
i'm not "telling" you anything. that's not my job. as an artist i'm ALL PROMPT. and like Hearthspirit reminded us, in improv it's always "YES, AND..."
that's where YOU'RE AT. i'm trying to say you're New Art. you're LIVING it. the soft focus hazy not-quite-in-their-world floaty questions and dares that we'd test before in SOFT TIMES, but now these are HARD TIMES and take warriors.
YOU ARE THAT.
so as i see it and forgive me for i speak in cartoons, i see YOU as having prayed at the feet of Art by visiting all these institutions. they were just shuckin' and jivin' and you believed in this stuff For Real, as did i.
and now you're... ???
this is the curse and blessing of each day, possibly terrifying or exhilarating (and often BOTH when you're really doing Your Job)... of facing The Blank Page... the Empty Canvas... the Unscheduled Future.
i suppose what i'm really saying, St Catherine Alexandria, is:
welcome! you're one of us artists. this is what it FEELS like being us before now times when everyone was going along gayly whistling past EVERYTHING.
x
erika
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Date: 2022-11-08 10:49 am (UTC)No one tells you what it feels like to go through it. They describe it all from the outside.
Which reminds me -
When I was pregnant, I read every pregnancy book I could get my hands on. Good girl wanting to do it right etc etc. I'm at the hospital in labor, they tell me to push, and I said "Omg it feels like I have to poop!" The nurse (in the most bland voice possible) says, "It's the same nerves around the anus and the vagina so yeah, birth feels like pooping."
Not one single book, blog post, or pre-natal appointment said that!!!
So they leave it to nurses in the hospital to break the news to every new mom I guess.
Erika you're a treasure - thank you. I still feel awful but I feel better knowing I've labeled it wrong. I'm feeling the birth of art, I'm an artist.
(no subject)
Date: 2022-11-07 10:08 pm (UTC)Hello stcathalexandra,
I can relate to what you are saying. I just got back from attending a literary gala event and a book festival and I found that I was very turned off / bored / disdainful of so many of the people-- the "scene" that I used to find so engaging. I wasn't surprised by that, I expected that, but still, it's a downer.
So why did I even attend? Curiosity, mainly. I was hoping for some more clarity, too, at least in the conversations I have with myself.
I haven't entirely given up on the old scene, but it's a ghost of what it was to me, and I conclude that much of the reason is that most people in it are relying on support from government, foundations, and universities and schools-- all of which give the boot to "wrongthink."
Right now I am thinking that what I need to do is find my people, and that means identify **individuals** and nurture those **individual relationships**. Free-lancers, entrepreneurs, independent editors, independent scholars, and so on.
PS With one exception, my family is the same story, all vaxxed, most also boosted, several injured, no one wants to hear anything about it. At. all.
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Date: 2022-11-08 10:36 am (UTC)I'm so sorry to hear about your family. That's gotta hit hard. Myself, I cry if I stop to think it.
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Date: 2022-11-08 12:38 pm (UTC)It reminds me very strongly of the end of my first marriage. (I'm working on a longer piece to explain it better), but I hear you SCA.
It's the part where you are ready to say the "D" word (divorce) out loud.
After your partner(society) betrayed you, there was a time of sound and fury - lot's of energy, yelling and slamming doors..."I can't believe you did that, how can you not see how wrong that was?" "You made me do it, you anti-science granny killer"...Then there's the false peace: just give me my job back/let me participate again, and I'll act like everything is fine. But we never actually changed anything, it's just that we were so invested in the happily ever after story, and had no inkling of any other future. Yet, no matter how hard we pretend it's OK, or how much we want it to work out (because everything we know about the future is tied up in 'the other')...one day over breakfast, we look at that society, and we know it's irrevocably over. Suddenly, between bites of toast, the realisation dawns...those old dreams are dead and gone, and to stay and fight for this relationship would be to forever sell ourselves short. There's not even enough energy in that relationship to be mad, just a sadness, an emptiness. That's when you acknowledge to yourself...there's no hate or anger, nor love nor any shred of enthusiasm...no energy at all, except a touch of sorrow for futures that will go unlived. And you finish your toast and announce "I want a divorce"
Goatgirl
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Date: 2022-11-08 06:20 pm (UTC)I just got an email that a conference scheduled for July 2023 is going to be online due to "health safety concerns". In July 2023? They just won't let covid go and are willing to ruin everything come hell or high water. It's insanity.
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Date: 2022-11-08 06:20 pm (UTC)You and all of the replies saying some variation of "me too" mean that it's not just me.
I, too, am having trouble caring about things (and people) I used to care about.
I think the word I would use is "alienation".
I used to have a wider circle of people I considered friends, but now I consider them just acquaintances. It turns out we have very different values, and that I don't have much in common with them - at least, not much that I think of as important. I now know which way they'll blow in the face of absurd fear-mongering and a (to me very obvious) propaganda campaign to demonize and scapegoat a subgroup of people, and have also discovered that when the chips are down, they don't actually share my commitment to thing like civil liberties and questioning authority. I've lost my respect for them. I'm not even mad...just disappointed and utterly alienated. Some of them keep inviting me to things and I'm like, why would I want to go? I don't have anything in common with you.
I, too, used to enjoy live performances and museums, but now feel alienated from most of those places too. I saw how quick they were to exclude people on the basis of absolutely nothing but fear-mongering and virtue-signalling. Someone recently invited me to a show that I might have liked, at a venue I used to patronize, and my reaction was just, why would I want to go there? They banned me last year, for no good reason. Why would I choose to go where people like me were excluded?
I used to volunteer at a nonprofit, but they had a volunteer jab mandate for a while. Why would I want to help them, if that was their attitude?
I have a small circle of friends left, and there are local businesses that never went along with the nonsense (or at least complied only minimally to the extent necessary to stay open), which I still frequent.
But I just feel alienated from much of society.
I'm trying to figure out where to go from here.
Election Day
Date: 2022-11-07 03:49 pm (UTC)I plan to write in "RFK Jr." for any such unopposed office, to force the election officials to record it as a more visible protest. (A blank vote is too easily forged after the fact.) Other good candidates might be "Tiffany Dover" or "Hank Aaron."
I'm sure we can have some fun with this folks. Who else should appear as a protest write-in?
*And I'm of course really voting for the few opposition candidates who have opposed mandates, and writing letters to incumbents explaining why I will never again vote for anyone who has not admitted and apologized for their egregious abuse of power.
Re: Election Day
Date: 2022-11-07 05:21 pm (UTC)Re: Election Day
Date: 2022-11-07 05:45 pm (UTC)King George III is also good.
Re: Election Day
Date: 2022-11-07 08:23 pm (UTC)Re: Election Day
Date: 2022-11-07 05:45 pm (UTC)erika
Re: Election Day
Date: 2022-11-07 07:16 pm (UTC)"Are there ANY REPUBLICANS?? If you are Republican step right up. No line!! No line if you're Republican.. ."
Re: Election Day
Date: 2022-11-07 05:48 pm (UTC)The Tenth Mouse!
Re: Election Day
Date: 2022-11-07 06:13 pm (UTC)HV
Re: Election Day
Date: 2022-11-07 07:40 pm (UTC)might be a good candidate
Re: Election Day
Date: 2022-11-07 08:05 pm (UTC)Re: Election Day
Date: 2022-11-07 10:38 pm (UTC)Since there appears to be no name in the US quite as threatening to our status quo as the Donald's is, I can think of no better way to get their elite knickers in a knot than in reminding them as many times as possible that he's still out there haunting all their better nightmares. At this point, I'm happy to do anything I can to make my self-satisfied jailers shudder with a frisson of foreboding.
- Christophe
Re: Election Day
Date: 2022-11-07 11:45 pm (UTC)Re: Election Day
Date: 2022-11-08 01:33 pm (UTC)On the state and national level, yeah, I get your point. And yes, one's mileage may vary in your own municipality - but there is evidence of voting still making a difference on the local level in many places.
I'm posting this less to convince you and more to communicate to others that in some places, your local vote really can matter.
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Date: 2022-11-07 03:57 pm (UTC)er, Emily Oster and covid etiquette
I just found this Kunstler column from Friday last.
https://kunstler.com/clusterfuck-nation/emily-osters-plea-bargain/
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Date: 2022-11-07 07:54 pm (UTC)Cetiosaurus
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Date: 2022-11-07 04:13 pm (UTC)Note that the judge is from the Federal court. The rot runs deep in Canada.
https://www.msn.com/en-ca/news/canada/judge-rules-doug-ford-sylvia-jones-immune-from-testifying-at-emergencies-inquiry/ar-AA13PU7U?ocid=mailsignout&pc=U591&cvid=c9379099bc724b01b13cf9c7ea12bc2a
Liam in Toronto
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Date: 2022-11-07 11:34 pm (UTC)Maybe Turdeau still has a use for his poodle Dougie-boy... after which he will be thrown to the wolves.
Ron M
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Date: 2022-11-08 03:13 pm (UTC)