Open (More or Less) Post on Covid 72

[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: The Narrative is cracking

[(Anonymous)]

Nice deflection from the social realism we are facing and have faced from people who engineer social situations leading to death and destruction.

Re: The Narrative is cracking

[(Anonymous)]

Not intended as a "deflection" - was that a dogwhistle? - from social realism (whose meaning in context is unclear) but an acknowledgement, primarily, of my own personal failings. I started off remarking that if vaxxed people who have actually been feeling smugly superior to the unvaxxed suffered side effects from their latest booster, it might take them down a peg, which arguably is not only fair but a valuable life lesson. You wouldn't disagree with that, I presume.

But then I thought: I have never during this whole pandemic ever felt smugly superior to anyone for being either vaxxed or unvaxxed (it's nobody's business). But have I felt smugly superior to people for unrelated reasons? Yes. And some of them behave in ways that merit the contempt of decent people, but there's still a difference between shaking your head at another's bad behavior vs. puffing out your chest and saying "How much better a person *I* am because I don't do that!" Sometimes I'm guilty of the latter.

So, I thought that perhaps expressing approval of injuries to annoyingly snotty people is the sort of thing that could create a big dollop of raspberry jam sailing back in exactly my direction, if I'm not careful. Recognizing my own attitude problems and trying to mitigate them perhaps reduces that risk.

-Translucent Jejune Octopus