Open (More or Less) Post on Covid 70
Dec. 6th, 2022 01:58 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)

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.
Re: Accidental help to the narrative
Date: 2022-12-07 08:57 pm (UTC)#1. Whatever the MSM says, I figure, hmmm, suspicious.
#2. I will not have a television in my house. Right there, that eliminates most trouble.
#3 When anyone (relative, friend, neighbor) tells me they got some info from watching TV or reading, oh, say, the New York Times, I figure, hmmmm, suspicious.
#4. I avoid Twitter and other social media because they are gamed by algos.
#5. I do my own research, and then I decide what makes sense, what doesn't make sense, and what is still, oh well, a mystery.
#6. I am willing to accept that some things are mysteries to me, rather than leap to conclusions that are not actually warranted. This can feel uncomfortable. But it works splendidly well, I find.
#7. My ego is not in charge. This allows me to take in new information.
Re: Accidental help to the narrative
Date: 2022-12-08 07:22 am (UTC)I am relay beginning to think that many things are also presented to us on the internet, in what we feel are alternate non-MSM sources that may actually also be a narrative fed to us. I feel like this happened with COVID during the initial time and instead of being some "real" stuff "snuck out" by caring individuals was likely psyop propaganda.