Open (More or Less) Post on Covid 65
Nov. 1st, 2022 11:47 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. 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.
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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.