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)]

Thanks for this.

I have all sorts of rational reasons for refusing the jab, from medical (not high risk, no long-term safety data, risk-benefit does not compute for me) to ethical (nobody should ever be forced to have a medical intervention against their will) to suspicion of power, money, and authority (nothing produced by those kinds kinds of corporations and pushed that hard by that many corrupt institutions and that many people with that much money and power can possibly be for my own good, it's obviously intended to line pockets and/or as a gateway to more digital control of the population).

But I also have a visceral, frankly irrational fear of it. Something is just....not right. I can't put my finger on it. Someone or something somewhere seems to have whispered to me "beware", and I listened. I feel like the above arguments came second, after the visceral recoil.

I don't get flu shots, either, but I don't have the same visceral recoil around them. With the flu shot, it really is more just "eh, there's always a cost-benefit analysis with everything, I suppose flu shots may make sense for some people but not for me at this time given my low risk and their relatively low efficacy."

But the cootie jabs make me shudder for less logical reasons I can't quite explain.

[(Anonymous)]

Same.

[(Anonymous)]

My feelings exactly. While I certainly resist it because of a rational fear of unknown risks with no benefit, I more viscerally, and deeply, fear it in the same way I'd fear making a deal with the devil. I can't account for this feeling.

--Lunar Apprentice

[methylethyl]

Yeah, ditto here. I have all the rational reasons for refusing, of course. But the instinctive revulsion/alarm/"run away!" instinct was there first. Logic followed it.

I am nowhere near humble enough to see clearly what that's all about, but God is merciful and even when we're vain, petty creatures, He doesn't leave us totally blind.

[(Anonymous)]

Despite any protestations to the contrary, that's how I think most "rational" decisions get made. First with the gut, and then painted over with a nice coat of rationality compatible with one's belief system. Less need to think this way.

[methylethyl]

It's essential, because some decisions must be made in an instant. Sometimes you can't see the lion in the tall grass, and if you have to stop and work through the logic of how you know it's there, it's going to eat you first.

[(Anonymous)]

"But I also have a visceral, frankly irrational fear of it. Something is just....not right. I can't put my finger on it. Someone or something somewhere seems to have whispered to me "beware", and I listened. I feel like the above arguments came second, after the visceral recoil...But the cootie jabs make me shudder for less logical reasons I can't quite explain."

It's fascinating how many people have said some form of this. In fact, it seems to me that most if not all the people I know who resisted have said some variant of it of other....

[(Anonymous)]

Ditto.