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

Apology to Hearthspirit

[(Anonymous)]

Dear Hearthspirit,
i was floating after St Catherine Alexandria got the strong/vulnerable thing but then i saw your response and so yesterday was a mix because i'd done wrong by you and wanted to really think out a proper non-defensive response:

i'm sorry that i missed your earlier reply regarding beyonce. i've been having a harder time keeping up with replies now that i don't always sign my name and have to scroll, and then i give up and start a new thread (like here and now). so from now on when we're actually going back and forth, i shall use my name or one of them, so i can do a proper search and not miss a reply and add to the impersonal nature of this medium.

i will take more care to be more thoughtful and not selfish about what's easy. i must work harder to defy the sloppiness and yes, cruel impersonality of this medium. so call me out if and when i slack or pinch.

i did not know any of that about beyonce and i'm ashamed for spouting off about things i know nothing about. i didn't mean to undermine your respect and enjoyment of another artist. i do apologize. it was wrong and caustic of me.

i won't stop being wrong and caustic as a general thing, but about THIS, i will take care to not be dismissive again. you also, like St Catherine Alexandria, give a lot so much of yourself to this place and the others, and didn't deserve that.

especially when you'd bothered to answer me TWICE.

so thanks for not blowing ME off and going back in. i'm duly ashamed and i bow my head to you in apology in that i will honestly strive to be more thoughtful with you. i recognize you and your beautiful power and don't want to ding it and add to the violences and scars of regular people in life today.

this is long, but i've been thinking long and hard about what a shmuck i was. i didn't know beyonce's THAT serious about her thang and i dig that in anyone.

so i'm sorry and will keep my name around or one that's searchable, and work to not ever blow you off again. so if i DO, call me out. you let me be the bitch i am so i've gotta protect the sweetest parts of you and me here. i know like Philly Girl above, you GET what i intend.

xxxxxxx

thank you

erika

Re: Apology to Hearthspirit

[(Anonymous)]

'I was floating after Saint Catherine Alexandria...' made me think of a certain sound........then I 'got it' and read your letter to the tune of
Just Like Tom Thumb's Blues by Bob Dylan

Re: Apology to Hearthspirit

[(Anonymous)]

cool. thanks for writing that, anonymous.
because Mattias Desmet had said something in his book about people vibrating off each other like chords or strings, and i nodded because THAT'S why i'd been dancing outside to catch people alive... because when i was a kid in the bronx and saw all that street dancing that i was too young to know it was SPECIAL... i thought it was all over the world... not yet... but i was caught... i got the chord the string the vibration... but couldn't move as i was 11 and 12 and Puerto Rican girls who develop early and have to walk down the sidewalk in handmade tight skirts that abuela made curve under my butt... i can only do so much and try and still keep my hymen intact SO i didn't dance on the streets til i was middle aged. i danced in clubs and inside but that doesn't count when you've got big titties.
so it's super fly hella cool that you say you got the RHYTHM that i didn't know was there ..it's natural... and i get why James Baldwin talked like he did when he came from New York... because he was a romantic in his own world, playing his own STRING... and the chord he was attuned to resonated and made him talk that way with that CADENCE...

i've lost my cadence. i can dance but i haven't been able to WRITE my own cadence in a long time... i used to write a little shimmy up front to get the melody and keep me GOING but this is the first time in my life i've no tone of my own..

i think it's because for the first time in my life i'm paying real true close attention to other people.

i try to catch NPR sunday shows but i cannot stand them more and more and i'm so SAD. so today i heard a piece from a woman talking about being on the spectrum i guess that's short for "autistic" now??? anyhow i listened to her talk about being over stimulated sensually and now i get why someone well a couple of people only have asked if i'm on "the spectrum." only lately. never before it was this Big Thing.

i don't get it. but listening to her description of being over stimulated emotionally i'm the same NOW that my ego's different. i've got an ego a big one but it's on ice more than it used to be.

and then i saw the Eckhart Tolle clip with Russell Brand and i realized i do like Tolle, and try to go INTO others' worlds after all. catch their vibe.

anyhow... they're crazy out there. i ran into a young African security guard who is staying a few more years but he misses home because he can't believe there were homeless WHITE people on the streets and everyone's so mean and no one's got family around or friends.

he said "we all know each other in Tanzania! families... friends... you all have NONE of that here!"

he thinks we're insane.

i giggled and agreed.

"vibin'".... time for that word to come back.

erika

Re: Apology to Hearthspirit

[(Anonymous)]

Erika,
True story. I live in Amherst. (SF Jr., with a special dab of East coast snootiness.) Way back,long before the pandemic, I took special enjoyment from inviting in any religious proselytizers (usually here, this meant Jehovah's witnesses.) I know dozens of people here who just slam the door in their faces.

I'd offer them a cup of coffee and talk, comparing notes between their faith, and mine. My point was always to connect with the human being, and get them off the script. They would come back to my house, trying to convert me. Once, they brought a serious upgrade -- a missionary here from Africa-- Gambia, Ok think, but I have forgotten. He was apparently a higher-up in their church.

I asked him, "You must have traveled a lot. What's the most difficult place you've ever been in, where nobody is the least bit interested in talking to you?"

He paused, and a large smile spread over his face. "That would be here."

Re: Apology to Hearthspirit

[(Anonymous)]

wow. that's a good story.
horrifying because my father's there.
it used to be so FUN in amherst and people were fun.

like here in the wet spot of mordor.

x

erika

Re: Apology to Hearthspirit

[(Anonymous)]

Hi Erika,
I wrote that about the rhythm in your words....Hey If I heard a rhythmic sound to the words then you're putting it out there.........

I got talking to a Nigerian woman at the laundromat when I had just moved and was waiting to get a washing machine. She mopped up twice a day for twenty minutes or so each time on top of her full-time personal caretaker job. She sent money home for her kids. She could not fathom how we lived here in terms of the brokenness. I wonder if she took the jab to keep her job.

Fuchsia Exasperating Griffin

Re: Apology to Hearthspirit

[hearthspirit]

Oh erika, I've already told Violet that I think the role of publicly dying of shame on behalf of her humanity is a case of mistaken identity.

Thank you, though, it means a lot.

I've loved Beyoncé since her Mrs. Carter tour, when she sparked off a firestorm in the Feminist Internet for not just taking her husband's name, but then putting it on her tour. All the white women had fits about how it was patriarchal and diminished her.

But she explained that she was doing it as a matter of enormous pride, in a signal to other black women who had grown up with the social mythologies she did. Not only did her man marry her - something rarer all the time - she was a successful black woman who was still marriageable. And she took his name, the name of a man she freely chose, who loved her as a person - not the name she inherited from her ancestors' slave owner. It was a big deal, even I cried.

Then other women chimed in - a woman who used a wheelchair said she did it for similar reasons: she was supposed to be a sexless being, and that Mrs. was the badge she could show in public all the time that someone loved her, wifed her; she was a real woman (she also had a collection of outrageous high heeled shoes for a similar reason - those parts of her body were still something she could make her own, not dead things. Her art.) Immigrant women who felt that it was a way they signaled they were joining into their husband's culture, women who hated their abusive fathers, it went on and on.

The blog that the discussion took place on completely blew up shortly afterwards - mothering fights of a similar nature - but I never forgot that lesson about being overly tied to interpreting one person's symbols through the negative lens of my own mythology. Which was a gateway drug, apparently, to many more artists I wouldn't have considered before, and I am the richer for it.

Re: Apology to Hearthspirit

[(Anonymous)]

i wasn't dying of shame, dear Hearthspirit, i was re-setting my intentions with YOU so i'd receive the best of you like all THAT you just wrote. i was cheating MYSELF of you and all you know and bring. '

it was that enlightened self interest thing. (wink)

x

erika

Re: Apology to Hearthspirit

[(Anonymous)]

(why is your name crossed out in your heading???)

x

erika