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

Voted against Covidianism

[methylethyl]

Well. Went to the polls this morning, and cast my vote against Branch Covidianism. Wish I had any confidence that'd work. If things go the way I think they will, I may go back to being a conscientious non-voter. We'll see.

I hope everybody who feels so inclined will put a prayer out there that whoever wins and whatever happens, sanity will prevail.

Re: Voted against Covidianism

[(Anonymous)]

Having seen this week's meme, I'd say Table Cat would make a great write-in candidate!

Re: Voted against Covidianism

[ecosophia]

I'll keep that in mind for next time. I've already made Smudge and the Memelords a garage band in the novel I'm writing.

Re: Voted against Covidianism

[(Anonymous)]

Thank you for participating. The symbolic act alone is important, even if it connects to nothing on the back end. Also, will definitely pray for sanity.

Miller (of 'died suddenly' substack fame) had an interesting post about the election:
https://markcrispinmiller.substack.com/p/what-we-might-learn-about-this-next

Re: Voted against Covidianism

[(Anonymous)]

I voted as well, although a few days ago (didn't expect to have free time today). Not the easiest vote I ever did (mainly because it wasn't my usual vote) but I was at peace in the end.

I will also put out a prayer for sanity; but something tells me to also pray for justice.

– Donald Hargraves

Re: Voted against Covidianism

[p_coyle]

pray first and foremost for accountability, this is how healing begins.

sanity will perhaps come much later.

justice, only if we're lucky.

Re: Voted against Covidianism

[methylethyl]

Justice will come in the end, for all of us. Maybe not in this life.

Never ask for it without mercy, though.

Re: Voted against Covidianism

[(Anonymous)]

Many commenters noted that whoever wins, it will be contested and the other side will not accept the vote, if counting takes days or weeks, this will not help very much.

Re: Voted against Covidianism

[methylethyl]

Yeah, my district doesn't have that problem, but I'm sure it'll be a right mess in plenty of other places. I hope the country as a whole can get its act together and hold reasonable elections again, soon.

I thought about not going, as most of the stuff being voted on here is a foregone conclusion, except the schoolboard race, which I don't care a lot about (though TBH the challenger seems off his rocker). But I just had three days of relentless deja-vu experiences, and it sort of imbued the current... whatever it is, with a weird sense of extra significance. So I went. And the deja vu seems to have stopped, so yay. It was unsettling.

Re: Voted against Covidianism

[(Anonymous)]

I was so frustrated with the options on my town council ballot I wrote in "A yellow dog that opposed mandates."

Times have changed so that I don't even know if they'll get it but :shrug:

Re: Voted against Covidianism

[(Anonymous)]

I tried several suggestions from last week's open post, one with a little twist:

Donald Trump
RFK Jr.
and
D. Neuntemaus (an attempt to evoke "the 9th mouse" using German but in a way that superficially looks like a real name )

Re: Voted against Covidianism

[(Anonymous)]

Cheers for the yellow dog!

Re: Voted against Covidianism

[open_space]

Thank you Methylethyl. If I may say something that I've been thinking about since this past Johnny Appleseed day, given the involvement with politics I see generally, one way or the other, which I find inspiring.

I grew up on one of the most contrasting and extreme countries on the planet: seeing famine, sickness, torture and merciful death happening around the corner and yet, nothing has caused me more revulsion than seeing first hand the soulless abuse, exclusion, ridicule and spite under which so many people are held.

I am a foreigner so I can't (and shouldn't be able to, despite some people insisting) write it in paper but I will most definitely keep praying for the well-being of the United States of America as if I could. Not exclusively because it will host The Lakeland Republic and I want to sing while I wait for a haircut and for politicians to be eager on installing new trolleys!

As someone that just read the Declaration of Independence for the first time this past Johnny Appleseed day I can say that the principles of this nation are very much worth standing for in whatever way it comes, specially, on a time where so many people seem to be mocking them...

"In every stage of these Oppressions We have Petitioned for Redress in the most humble terms: Our repeated Petitions have been answered only by repeated injury. A Prince whose character is thus marked by every act which may define a Tyrant, is unfit to be the ruler of a free people."

Re: Voted against Covidianism

[p_coyle]

keep your hand on the plow. hughes understood some things that, unfortunately, have mostly been forgotten. that needs to change.

Re: Voted against Covidianism

[stcathalexandria]

In the past things would push to an extreme before an election and then the same bland moderation would return with a continual gradual push towards more war, more federal spending, and more progressive social policies. In the last five years or so there's been an unwillingness to moderate or even to just stop dehumanizing the opposition to war (I count covid as a war against everyday people), spending, or progressivism.

I didn't vote intentionally for the first time in my life because there wasn't anyone on the ballot who I see as returning my state to any sort of sane moderate position. Even if all R's got into office, there wasn't going to be any resolution or stoppage of any of the above. That's a fantasy that put out to keep people passive thinking that through voting they can cause the state to act in their interest. The state does what the state is going to do regardless of who you vote for.

Re: Voted against Covidianism

[methylethyl]

Yeah, in my state at least we had some resistance to the madness, and I'm content to have those people continue to run things (pretty much everyone I voted for won-- no surprise-- but it won't make any difference to the rest of the country).

Re: Voted against Covidianism

[sinners4diseasecontrol]

That sounds like a really good thing I can add to my prayer in the morning!