Open (More or Less) Post on Covid 66
Nov. 8th, 2022 01:46 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
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.
Re: Local Recorders
Date: 2022-11-10 04:12 am (UTC)Re: Brain Inflammation
Date: 2022-11-10 04:35 am (UTC)Okay, all snarkiness aside, really?
Annette
Re: Another IM Doc post
Date: 2022-11-10 04:37 am (UTC)Re: QR CODE
Date: 2022-11-10 04:39 am (UTC)Re: International Travel Ban
Date: 2022-11-10 04:44 am (UTC)RECORD SCRATCH RADIO #6: DON'T MASS FORMATION IN MY FACE AND CALL IT A REPUBLICAN BLOOD CLOT
Date: 2022-11-10 05:22 am (UTC)RECORD SCRATCH RADIO #6: DON'T MASS FORMATION IN MY FACE AND CALL IT A REPUBLICAN BLOOD CLOT
https://recordscratchradio.substack.com/pC/its-on-dont-mass-formation-in-my
hope you enjoy. i think we're interrupting each other a LOT less. it's like we're finally learning our manners now that we're wanting to make a good impression on the young before they completely corner eat us like the kids in that elizabeth taylor movie where she said "AND THEN THEY ...ATE HIM!"
x
erika
Re: Mucky state of the collective astral around here
Date: 2022-11-10 05:49 am (UTC)Re: It's The End of America and I Feel Fine / or ARTISTS AS THE OFFICIAL LEGISLATORS OF CULTURE time
Date: 2022-11-10 05:56 am (UTC)https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Angle_of_repose
Murmuration
Re: QR CODE
Date: 2022-11-10 06:07 am (UTC)Eisenstein - The Mask of Derision
Date: 2022-11-10 06:15 am (UTC)I find myself resonating with a lot of his sentiments here. In all of the calls for Nuremberg II, I have been tempted to ask why exactly did Nuremberg I happen, and what exactly did it accomplish? If a coalition of foreign powers had invaded and conquered the USA in 1870, might they have been equally appalled at our genocide of indigenous peoples and have convened similar trials? Was Nuremberg really an ideal example of justice for evil actions, or was it specifically designed to humiliate the losers of a long and bitter war? Is Nuremberg II really what we should be aiming for, or can we step out of the cycles of hatred and counter-hatred, oppression and punishment, and transcend the tendency toward dehumanization?
https://charleseisenstein.substack.com/p/love-is-unconditional-trust-is-not
"Similarly, something primal lurks beneath the rationale for punishing the architects of pandemania, the calls for a Nuremberg II, and so on. The rationale is about deterrence and “holding people accountable.” The ideal is “never again.” But are we immune to more savage impulses masquerading as ideals? The lust for revenge, the desire to dance triumphantly over a humiliated enemy? Can we distinguish rational measures against a recurrence of genocidal madness from the madness itself? The madness which seeks to control evil by projecting it onto a sacrificial victim whose removal from society cleanses evil from the world?"
"Did Nuremberg I prevent a recurrence of genocidal madness? Did the perpetrators of the Rwandan massacres pause to think, “Hold on, if we slaughter a million people we will be punished?” Come on. The purpose of Nuremberg was not deterrence. It was a sort of theater. It was an attempt to affix onto a few individuals culpability for an unspeakable, mystifying, and therefore all the more terrifying crime. True, those individuals stoked the furnace of anti-Semitic hate and rode it to power, but they did not invent the fire, and could not have carried out the Holocaust in the absence of a kind of collective madness, whose symptoms range from howling bloodlust to cowed acquiescence. It is the same madness that fueled the witch hunts and other horrors. It is indeed, as the word Holocaust implies, an all-consuming inferno. The hysteria of the mob is a terrifying force. It is primal, animal. It defies sense and reason. Yet the way we try to corral it into a narrative, through performances like Nuremberg, feeds its underlying fire. That fire is the meta-pattern of dehumanization. It is the energy of hate."
Re: WORDLE
Date: 2022-11-10 06:33 am (UTC)I've only become more familiar with Orthodox Christianity - based on Alexander Christofouri explaining it quickly in a recent interview with the Polish gal. As he puts it, the process matters a lot and you have to take a longer-term view and be more patient. That is what's taught culturally and spiritually, which ties in with Michael Martin's take.
However, there was a discussion last week about how folks are no longer enjoying the events which they used to go to, due to them having embraced vexing mandates. I have the same exact feelings - not just for the physical events, but during the early part of the global lockdowns, a lot of complete classical concerts were posted on Youtube by the main labels which own the copywrites, and one thing I noticed quickly and have commented in private with friends - is that a person would be playing a piece which sounded transcendal, euphoric or just full of joy. But the same person playing the same piece now in a new recording - would be note perfect technically speaking, playing with polished ease.... yet there's definitely something missing. In the older version, I may have wanted to play it in the background while reading some other stuff, but it becomes so arresting that I switch over and just simply enjoy watching and listening to the performance. Now? it's like muzak in the background and I can barely tolerate it. I had described it as the performer no longer having any soul in the music...
(no subject)
Date: 2022-11-10 06:56 am (UTC)As in, 'hoist on your own petard'? I can chuckle at that one.
(modern English translation: blown up by your own bomb)
Re: mundane question for at-home medical care
Date: 2022-11-10 08:29 am (UTC)When we moved into this house, I took a tape measure and and bought the biggest tackle box that would fit in the wardrobe under my clothes. Atop extra supplies, it holds several trays with various items I might want immediate access to. I've got dried herbs in bottles or sealed plastic bags in various other places, and what I need to do is create an Excel file with notes on where everything is.
Re: Voted against Covidianism
Date: 2022-11-10 08:30 am (UTC)Re: Boost!
Date: 2022-11-10 08:33 am (UTC)Re: International Travel Ban
Date: 2022-11-10 08:39 am (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2022-11-10 08:44 am (UTC)Re: International Travel Ban
Date: 2022-11-10 09:43 am (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2022-11-10 09:54 am (UTC)The death numbers keep on stacking up in highly vaxxed countries and: "over time, the strength of the association between excess mortality and vaccination is INCREASING!"
https://igorchudov.substack.com/p/association-between-vaccines-and
Now, in my last post, I personally forgave team provax in response to their pleas, so let nobody say that my stony unvaxxed heart has blocked them from repenting and committing to a 'twelve step' program to kick the 'mystery juice'.
But since I've forgiven them, they have no more excuse! It's time they moved onto the next step!
They have all the power, now they need to make things right.
Tick tock
The Ninth Mouse
Re: International Travel Ban
Date: 2022-11-10 09:57 am (UTC)The first time I flew from the US to Europe where I did not need any test or vaxx certificate the check-in agent was insistent that I needed a vaxx certificate, but I was insistent that I did not (because I had checked and for where I was flying, the requirements had been removed). In a big huff, clearly disgusted with me, she went to check with her supervisor and, after quite a long while, returned, now very, very subdued. It was as if some grey veil had come over her. She didn't say anything more about requirements, but tersely checked me in as if nothing had happened.
I cannot say what exactly was going on in her mind but I do know that many people who did not want to get vaxxed went and got vaxxed because they believed they had to if they ever wanted to work and/or travel again. Somehow, from the beginning, my intuition alarms told me this was not true, and that I would just need to be a little bit patient.
So here's my guess-- just guess: it was sort of like maybe she had paid a big price, but neener-neener, here's someone who got by for free-- so the game wasn't what she thought it was!
But speaking of the game not being what she thought it was, I think that's how it is for all of us, actually. There is something so deeply weird about all of it.
Re: International Travel Ban
Date: 2022-11-10 10:03 am (UTC)I agree, in my experience, the rules are whatever they make up at the time. I have some wildly annoying stories myself.
Re: International Travel Ban
Date: 2022-11-10 10:03 am (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2022-11-10 10:04 am (UTC)Re: Boost!
Date: 2022-11-10 10:06 am (UTC)But, words change their meanings all the time.
Re: Mucky state of the collective astral around here
Date: 2022-11-10 10:11 am (UTC)Do not quit. There is no cavalry coming. We are up.
Thank you.