Open (More or Less) Post on Covid 65

[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.    

Comments

[dabilahro]

Sorry to hear of your troubles in this area, joy is essential and I hope you can find ways to gain some back or find new ways.

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