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)]

You can spend 579 hours a day on Twitter and not really get a feeling for "what's happening" because the Twitter algos will game you.

[methylethyl]

I've poked at it a bit, and there are searches that were obviously blocked, and have since been un-blocked-- for example, I searched last week for a list of states that had come out saying they wouldn't require covid shots to attend school. It returned a factcheck box telling me where to find "reliable" covid info, and three completely irrelevant search results. Three. A week later, the same search got me many, many results.

So clearly something is changing. But you're right, it's hard to tell exactly what. A lot of the keyword bans have been dropped, I think. Accounts banned for purely ideological reasons are gradually being reinstated. And IMO I'm seeing a lot less trashy bot/spam traffic than I did last time I dipped in a couple months ago-- the sort of stuff that makes unmoderated comboxes everywhere complete toxic wastelands.

But I'm about done poking at it for now. None of that changes the essential nature of the thing: that it's a fast-delivery constant-stream chain of tiny dopamine hits designed to stunt contemplative thought and hijack your neuro-social circuitry to serve a technological organism. Also a gigantic time-suck.