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

[(Anonymous)]

I think devolution of as many decisions and policies as possible to the local level just might be the way to go. There must be some limits to local behavior (you cannot burn witches and gays at the stake in the U.S., because First Amendment) but if Bugtussle wants to teach creationism and not let their town's kids read books by black people, and Gotham wants to teach evolution and let their kids read books by gay people, so be it. Could other religion-based laws fit here too, so that Gotham can keep abortions legal within city limits?
The legal code is traditionally decided at the state level; every village shouldn't be expected to recreate a criminal code from scratch. But, each jurisdiction should elect and keep its own DA, set its own priorities for enforcement and its own balance of violent and nonviolent approaches to crime, its own ordinances on public weaponry. Post signs on every road coming in and in the airport and train station to warn people if your town like to throw people in jail for doing things that are legal in other places.

What about financial matters, like social safety nets and roads? We could devolve things like Medicaid to the local level - your village supports you, or you starve. Tough luck for those with expensive problems in small towns, though. Some villages might choose to form mutual insurance groups of a kind. Highways could be devolved to the state level. Eisenhower would not have been happy to hear about that - he considered high-quality Interstates to be a strategic imperative. But it could be done. No more federal crop subsidies. (The ascendant red rural states would be unlikely to agree to any of these things willingly.)

-Translucent Jejune Octopus

[scotlyn]

Devolution might be a good word for thinking with.

Many of us have expensive problems that even in cities, as we speak, are not easily solved - like houses for the homeless, useful medicine and care for the sick, work for the unemployeed.

But, ultimately, I would like to see decisions being made (as far as possible) by those who will be most impacted by them.

By "lines" it was my understanding that these were not walls, but delineations of domains of responsibility for decision making. And for that... "devolution" works too. :)

[methylethyl]

Indeed. Lines not walls. I have no idea why people took that as "lock them in!" and just sort of ran with that.