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: breaking the binary

[dendroica]

Yes!

I don't think I would *define* wisdom that way, but certainly taking emotional charge out of memories/history is one of the *keys* to wisdom.

This might help to explain why our modern historical memory of the Nazi phenomenon - which largely reduces to an emotionally-charged "fascism bad!" - seems more likely to facilitate than to prevent a recurrence as both sides project the "fascist" label onto their enemies.

For me, personally, the covid years have helped to break down these faultlines. Previously, I was largely on "team blue" and (especially during the GW Bush years) viewed "team red" as rather frightening and alien. Seeing the blue team double down on irrational belief and the red team stand up for personal freedom in this case has effectively balanced the scales - where now I see the whole political landscape as filled with good ideas and bad ideas tangled up together in an oddly tribal, divided world.

If I may seem optimistic about our chances to avoid civil war, it is because my own desire to fight on either of the sides that may arise from a red-blue divide has - over the last three years - dropped to zero.

I suspect that the general working-class shift from blue to red that has occurred over the past 20 years might represent a similar awakening and softening of charge for others, who are now voting red but who are really waiting for a real populist uprising. Any other realignments that occur as people become disenchanted with some position of their "tribe" will help with this, even as others find themselves more polarized.

With the exception, perhaps, of the regions where the original Civil War was fought, my sense is that the USA is largely lacking the sorts of ancient and deep-seated cultural, ethnic, and religious hatreds that can be rekindled into open warfare - which I see as a reason for hope that we might make it through the next decades without major violence.