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)]

If Twitter implodes, then maybe it'll encourage people to set up the alternatives offline, so that we don't need to rely on the internet for this anymore. People spread news opposed to the official narrative all the time before the 1990s, and didn't need the internet for it, so we know it can be done.

[(Anonymous)]

Well, Mastodon seems to be driving nicely.
Lot of people fleeing from twitter putting up shop there.

Which I approve of, its open-source and can be self-hosted and based on open standards.
For those who never heard of it before, a summary is available at https://joinmastodon.org/
Or check the wikipedia page https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mastodon_(software)

So, while Im all for offline alternatives, there are good twitter alternatives already out there.

[(Anonymous)]

The people migrating from Twitter to Mastodon are the same ones who made Twitter the screaming pit of left-"liberal" insanity.

Not going to sign up on either one anytime soon.

[(Anonymous)]

True enough, but there is no censoring.

[p_coyle]

which is a good thing. people will be forced out of their echo chambers.

it's like musk is larping eris, and wasting a fraction of his wealth on twitter is just his version of tossing the apple of discord into the room.

Back to zines!

[(Anonymous)]

My trust is in the information I can silkscreen by hand; though some people have made good use of mimeographs and xerox machines. I’d be pleased if an alternative press sprang up, featuring a wide range of political views including conservative yet crunchy ideas and old-time hippie aesthetics. The new counterculture is bound to be populist, methinks.

Re: Back to zines!

[(Anonymous)]

Wow this gives range to a whole set of images and ideas.

I love the idea of an alternative press using some sort of simple technology
not that silkscreening is simple.

Re: Back to zines!

[temporaryreality]

Silkscreening might just make it through a petroleum-less tech bottleneck. I'm still working on mimeographs, but there are many weak points - they're tolerable now, but down the line will be difficult to surmount.