Open (More or Less) Post on Covid 71

[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: NHS collapsing

[(Anonymous)]

Have you noticed the media slamming Medicare Advantage plans lately? I found it curious.
But now I think I get the picture.
You've got everyone 65+ on Medicare, the US govt can choose to limit or refuse certain services on the basis that it isn't worth it at a certain age. They are already trying to do this with physical and occupational therapy.
Medicare Advantage plans are an HMO layered on top of Medicare. They take payments from Medicare and turn around and provide their own benefits, which may differ from Medicare.
People on Medicare Advantage plans are not necessarily affected by Medicare not covering something if the Medicare Advantage provider chooses to make the service available through its HMO network anyway. On the other hand, the Medicare Advantage plans may have restrictions as an HMO that regular Medicare does not.

Banging on Medicare Advantage plans now makes sense, if the goal is to ensure that older people are exposed to the restrictions of Medicare itself. And thereby unable to access care that would improve or prolong their lives.

More broadly, I've had a eureka moment lately, where so much of everything is making sense when you view it as a population reduction scheme.

Re: NHS collapsing

[(Anonymous)]

Medicare Advantage plans often have extremely narrow networks and coverage limits of their own that make them questionable deals. Medicare is near going broke, but one of the reasons for that is that they've been very unwilling to refuse to cover price-gouging treatments. I'd suspect that anything they won't cover is something I wouldn't want my poor aged mother submitting to anyway.

-Translucent Jejune Octopus

Re: NHS collapsing

[(Anonymous)]

Yes, I remember a few years back my PT being like "You're progressing so slowly that if you were elderly and on Medicare I'd have to cut you off"... (I'd been bedridden and initially could only walk for 2 minutes at a time. PT got me back to being able to walk for as long as I want.)

Bugs me when I think about how "getting weaker so you do less so you get weaker" ("sarcopenia" I think is the term) is a known cause of "death due to aging."