ecosophia | Open (More or Less) Post on Covid 67

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.

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I don't knit but I vaguely remember hearing something about how the knitting community (or the largest online knitting forums maybe?) having gone full on Social Justice insanity a few years back? It sure seems like the Covidian religion and the Social Justice religion share massive amounts of crossover.

I was going to suggest that it was a linear evolution from the moment Ravelry went full-on TDS. People got kicked off left-and-right for refusing to kowtow or for posting Trump-related patterns, while F-Trump patterns got all sorts of attention. I can only imagine that FJB stuff is also verboten. Anyway, they swung hard left in the name of some version of "decency" (while still allowing all sorts of sex-themed patterns) and all of knitdom who hadn't been banned probably followed. So, I agree with anonymous here that that swing is the reason for the "I swallow all blue pills and take blue boosters" hysteria.

Yes in-group signalling has become very important in a whole variety of arenas. Put ‘knitting woke wars instagram’ in a non woke browser for a good selection of articles explaining the history.
Falling Tree Woman

Right! There has definitely been a linear evolution in all this and in the greater society at large.

How I remember it from my perspective was that around 2010-2012 I started to see a massive uptick in people talking about "White Privilege" and "The Patriarchy" and started to see people getting unpersoned for having wrongthink and then after that I think around 2012-2014(?) Sad Puppies and Gamergate happened online along with the Trayvon shooting and the rise of BLM in the real world with all the associated rise in SJW style activism which lasted until 2016 when full on TDS took over and they all went completely insane and then Covid in 2020 drove them even more insane somehow.

I hate to think what will be next. I would think we would be ready for a normalization period where the masses are allowed to get used to their new normal before the next series of crisis begins. But with a looming economic recession I fear TPTB will use the recession to push even more insanity, "never let a crisis go to waste" and all that.

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