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

Re: mundane question for at-home medical care

[methylethyl]

That reminds me that I need to stop being lazy and start stocking one for our house. Superglue for things that can get by without stitches. Suturing kits for things that do need them. Already have the iodine, but can never find it when I need it (because we have to hide it from the preschooler)... sigh. Husband likes to keep a tube of liquid N-Acetylcysteine around (hospitals use it in nebulizers for breathing treatments) because it's the thing to use for acetaminophen OD, and is very safe otherwise. Plus spare tweezers, the obligatory Oral Rehydration salts, etc.

One thing that's awfully handy but not everybody has around is a set of dental picks. They're fairly cheap and not just handy for pulling the odd embedded popcorn out of the gums. They(and some sterilized sewing needles) are also good for probing cuts to find and remove that last accursed sliver of completely invisible glass. I can't count the number of times I have had to do this (our household defaults to barefoot most of the year). For this, and related junk-stuck-in-feet problems, we also find a sterilized set of good toenail clippers (the ones with the flat cutter) is essential-- sometimes you have to clip away a bit of callus to get at the part you're working on.