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John Michael Greer ([personal profile] ecosophia) wrote2022-11-08 01:46 pm

Open (More or Less) Post on Covid 66

Smudge for the winAs 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.     

Layoffs Just This Month

(Anonymous) 2022-11-08 11:59 pm (UTC)(link)
How many of these employers had vax mandates?

Layoffs This Month (% of Workers):

1. Twitter: 50%

2. Cameo: 25%

3. Robinhood: 23%

4. Intel: 20%

5. Snapchat: 20%

6. Coinbase: 18%

7. Opendoor: 18%

8. Stripe: 14%

9. Lyft: 13%

10. Shopify: 10%

11. Meta: “Thousands”

12. Apple: Hiring Freeze

13. Amazon: Hiring Freeze

Re: Layoffs Just This Month

(Anonymous) 2022-11-09 03:19 am (UTC)(link)
I work in IT. It's a bloodbath at the moment. I'd say it's got everything to do with the increase in interest rates and the drying up of speculative capital. How much of the IT industry was pure speculation? We may be about to find out.

Re: Layoffs Just This Month

(Anonymous) 2022-11-09 10:46 am (UTC)(link)
The economy died about 10 years ago, IMHO. It has been kept animated by undead, er, below-market interest rates. What you are seeing isn't anything dying - that already happened. What you are seeing is the magic and the trickery used to keep it moving, all of that is coming apart.

Part of it may be that they wanted to pull the plug on it too. It's hard to say whether it's malice or stupidity with the bureaucrats. But just like Moscow ran the soviet economy, the Murican economy is run from DC.

Re: Layoffs Just This Month

(Anonymous) 2022-11-09 04:55 pm (UTC)(link)
BINGO!!!!!!

The economy that produced actual, useful things and employed actual, useful people died years ago in North America and throughout the West. To be sure, in the US especially, there is still a huge manufacturing sector. However, it is all high-tech and robotic and, as such, does not contribute much to the creation of a middle-class that is vital for a consumer society. The robotic society overwhelmingly benefits the World Economic Forum and Klaus Schwab and his evil minions and that's about it. Ditto for Facebook, Twitter and all the other, frankly useless "services". I'd add the financial sector to this list.

An economy that produces only discord, financial chicanery and smoke and mirrors is of benefit only to the grifters and thieves and con men that run the West for their own benefit.

Let it die.

Liam in Toronto

Re: Layoffs Just This Month

(Anonymous) 2022-11-09 12:06 pm (UTC)(link)
Yep
https://www.zerohedge.com/markets/mark-zuckerberg-fire-11000-meta-employees

Re: Layoffs Just This Month

(Anonymous) 2022-11-09 02:05 pm (UTC)(link)
Most of it. But, the real problem is that even a lot of the few things about the internet and computer world where it's possible to make money (ex: a lot of the hardware companies are in better shape than the software companies) depends on the demand for their products being driven by the massive amounts of speculation elsewhere in the IT world.

It seems disturbingly plausible to me that we may see some massive disruptions to the internet in the next few years as the process of figuring out what parts of it are economically viable works itself out, and a lot of what currently seems viable may not survive the collapse of the speculative end of the internet.

Re: Layoffs Just This Month

(Anonymous) 2022-11-09 08:13 pm (UTC)(link)
I second that, I think the first casualty will be big cloud and big platforms, server farms will remain only in Russia and China and other parts of the world, server farms are not suite for 3rd world countries

Re: Layoffs Just This Month

(Anonymous) 2022-11-09 08:16 am (UTC)(link)
Not sure that's related to the vaccines in any way...

Re: Layoffs Just This Month

(Anonymous) 2022-11-09 03:55 pm (UTC)(link)
The point is that people got the vaccine due to employer mandates, and now they don't have a job.

Re: Layoffs Just This Month

(Anonymous) 2022-11-09 04:36 pm (UTC)(link)
First thing that comes to my mind: Imagine how you would feel right now if you were laid off-- and you'd taken the jabs against your better judgement just because it was mandated. Good deal, that, huh.

Re: Layoffs Just This Month

(Anonymous) 2022-11-09 09:26 am (UTC)(link)
One of my prediction using my own PKD based divination from the Roman year AD 217 was kind of right, I expect next months, years, these companies to have serious technical malfunctions or setbacks, Intel had a serious setback after 2016 layoffs.

My prediction: 3 months ago
https://ecosophia.dreamwidth.org/187282.html?thread=31413394#cmt31413394


Something happens to a big chunk of the Internet, I established that Colloseum is the Internet, the upper levels were for the plebe. I expect in the next 3-4 months that the cloud + big platforms Facebook + Twitter + Google etc to go down



Since we are here prediction for The Roman year 218, which means next (3-4) months for the US:

Roman Empire
May 16 – Julia Maesa, an aunt of the assassinated Emperor Caracalla, is banished to her home in Syria by the self-proclaimed emperor Macrinus, and declares her grandson Elagabalus, age 14, emperor of Rome.


Global American Empire
Kamala Harris, a transsexual or someone who is openly sexually promiscuous become president


June 8 – Battle of Antioch: Elagabalus defeats, with the support of the Syrian legions, the forces of Macrinus. Macrinus flees, but is captured near Chalcedon and later executed in Cappadocia.


Global American Empire
next president is capable to revive a bit the Democratic fight, and people like Elon Musk and other liberal dissident are reigned in or economically exile one way or another.





Diadumenianus, son of Macrinus, escapes to the Parthian court, but is captured at Zeugma and also put to death.


Global American Empire
Starlink company won't survive the next 3-4 months


The silver content of the Roman denarius falls to 43 percent under the reign of Elagabalus, down from 50 percent under Septimius Severus, as he empties the treasury.


Global American Empire
Major economic decline akin to 2008 in next 3-4 months US production might decline serious percents up to 7%, Permian will peak and decline. Serious economic turmoil. Increased inflation almost to hyperinflation limits, shortages $8 to $10 a gallon for Diesel, in cases even $12,



Elagabalus starts his reign in AD 218 and this might mean the following for the Global American Empire:
A president more oriented on the WEF trans agenda, increased discontent among the population.
A president more vocal to the WEF "secular" religion.


Re: Layoffs Just This Month

(Anonymous) 2022-11-10 10:56 am (UTC)(link)
"Kamala Harris, a transsexual or someone who is openly sexually promiscuous become president".

Oh boy, that would be a comedian's dream, assuming comedy would still be permitted. Is there no limit to the crazy?

Can Dementia Joe pass the scepter onto his son, monarchy-style? Hunter would rock the White House (what an appropriately named place for Hunter) and he's promiscuous enough. Party time!!!

Re: Layoffs Just This Month

(Anonymous) 2022-11-10 05:32 pm (UTC)(link)
That would be beyond crazy will break everything in US, it would be crazy, another mechanism would be to put a trans for the house speaker, and for Kamala to die or resign, remember these were pro waxxine shot individuals, and it no news that many politicians didn't go for the saline

Re: Layoffs Just This Month

(Anonymous) 2022-11-09 04:03 pm (UTC)(link)
These companies enacted vaccine mandates in the late summer to fall of 2021, and 12-15 months later the employees who vaccinated to keep their job ended up losing it anyway.

So if they had walked away last year and kept themselves vaccine free, they would have kept their morals and pride and be able to look for work without competing with tens of thousands of other similarly skilled people.

Now they are vaccinated, losing their health insurance at some point, and are now scrambling to figure out employment.

Feels like karmic blowback a bit.

Re: Layoffs Just This Month

(Anonymous) 2022-11-09 08:14 pm (UTC)(link)
I think companies will get it too, now they expect probably to hire in Eastern Europe and Ukraine but that place is a mess right now in the IT Market

Re: Layoffs Just This Month

(Anonymous) 2022-11-10 11:45 am (UTC)(link)
Ahhh the old lay off the expensive American worker and hire a foreigner to do the same work for 1/10 the price.