Open (More or Less) Post on Covid 70

[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: Internet's Effect on Covid Response

[(Anonymous)]

That alternative explanation is far more compelling and coherent!

Every popular technology ends up significantly altering our cultural traditions in myriad ways. Try imagining what politics, healthcare, education, or family life would look like without fiat currency or regulated lines of credit. Or without electricity or the printing press.

What we nostalgically call "traditional democratic governance" was only made possible through the introduction of printing presses and fiat currencies, and it has already undergone countless mutations since they were introduced. Newspapers, radios, and televisions were every bit as distorting of that elusive ideal as the internet has been so far.

What's interesting about the internet, as well as credit default swaps, electronic voting, and cryptocurrencies, is that they all appear to have the magical ability to utterly gut any moral integrity remaining in our rapidly declining civilization. Is that because they were all designed with the hope of stripping value out of our decaying culture? Were radio or television designed with any different intent? Has capitalism not always been about skimming redundant value off the top?

Perhaps it's not so much the nature of our inventions that has changed, as it is the scarcity of value, monetary or moral, that remains for the pillaging. Capitalism and contraction just don't work very well together in the end. Unless, of course, the goal is actually to create neverending crises and panics — they're pretty good at that! And Ms. Harrington is dutifully contributing towards that dubious goal.

— Christophe