Open (More or Less) Post on Covid 66

[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 have a Modest Proposal for avoiding profanity - use "boost" instead.

- that is so boosted, boosted beyond belief
- go boost yourself
- he really boosted them, right in the arm

Boost!

[dendroica]

We would be fighting against an old and generally positive meaning for the term.

My high school had a "booster club" that organized fundraisers for athletics.

Re: Boost!

[(Anonymous)]

I agree. To 'boost' is to 'increase' or to 'encourage'. Maybe I'm too literal, but it makes no sense to me as a cuss word.

If adult curse words are too offensive, maybe go back to kid cuss words. Or to curse words of a bygone era, there's a wealth of century-old ways to say such things.

Re: Boost!

[scotlyn]

Well, to be "gay" is to be happy and merry. Or does anybody even remember this?

But, words change their meanings all the time.

Re: Boost!

[hearthspirit]

Absolutely!. Many of us are counting on it.

Re: Boost!

[deathcap]

My grandfather would universally describe anything he found odd as "a bit queer". Not using it in the current sense of the word at all. I don't remember whether or not he used "gay" in the old-timey sense or not, but I wouldn't be surprised.

Re: Boost!

[sinners4diseasecontrol]

Yah? Well boost you too! :-)

Re: Boost!

[deathcap]

Same. My kids are currently in the middle of their fundraiser called "boosterthon". I also think of the nutrient shakes my grandma used to drink called "Boost".

While it's annoying to have the connotation of the word "boost" marred...it's still a generally positive term!

[methylethyl]

I dunno. Maybe instead of simply replacing the one or two words that have edged out every other kind of swearing in the English language, we could try to revive the fine art of lengthy, creative, florid, swearing that still exists (I hear) in at least a few other major languages.

excrement's always popular of course, but it'd be better if more of our excrement phrases involved robot vacuum cleaners, half-digested balloons, the dung of exotic animals...

(shrugs)
I'm a novice at it myself, but I think with a bit of practice, it could be done! Every swear should leave an indelible mental image of unutterable horror ;)

[(Anonymous)]

There's a saying (which I'll probably garble) but something like:

"Irish diplomacy is telling someone to go to h*ll and having them look forward to the trip."

It's completely possible to insult someone with skill and elegance. Wish I had that skill!

[p_coyle]

we named our robot vacuum the "suck puck." johnny dangerously, farscape and battlestar galactica #2 have plenty of options when it comes to alternate profanities.

[(Anonymous)]

LoL

☕️🍰☕️🍰☕️🍰

[(Anonymous)]

You are boosting hilarious. Got any memes?

[ecosophia]

That works for me.

Ahem. On my blog and journal, "boost" and its derivatives are now officially recommended expletives.

[(Anonymous)]

I think it would work better as "booster" - "to booster" being the verb. I booster, you booster, he/she/it boosters... meaning the ruination of things that have evolved to work (like an immune system) by the over application of technology/graft/greed/etc.


"The education system is boostered"

[(Anonymous)]

Okay, if it's phrased as 'boosted', that would be 'lifted up'...

As in, 'hoist on your own petard'? I can chuckle at that one.

(modern English translation: blown up by your own bomb)

[hearthspirit]

Gold star for that use; but I think there's a difference between ruination and the reality of where it's going.