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

Re: Emily Oster says 'Let's forgive and forget'

[(Anonymous)]

Ehhhh...

I appreciated Emily Oster's book 'Expecting Better' and how it eased some of the guilt and burden our society heaps on pregnant women. (Not everything is your fault! Eat that soft cheese if you want it, statistically speaking you and baby will be fiiinnneeeee!!! Etc. etc.)

BUT. She's part of the cadre of popular science writers who all drank the Koolaid and starting pushing the rest of us off cliffs because we were dirty. It pains me deeply, because they used to be my people. But all these quirky, entertaining folks who used to prize looking at the data and thinking for themselves have been subsumed by the PMC, or editors pressuring them to not write about stuff the publisher won't like, or the desire to be inclusive and so fell into the wokeness and Team Blue and REPENT FOR THE END IS COVID!!!!!

It's probably not unrelated that the pandemic was the first time many of them got as much attention as, say, your average sports writer. It was the Golden Era for biomedical writers. Sorry to say most of them dropped the ball.

Most of the criticism of her "forgive and forget" article on Twitter seems to be well written and true.

Perhaps if more of this type of free speech is allowed to bloom in the public square, more science writers and others will break loose from the spell and start thinking for themselves again.

--Ms. Krieger