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Open (More or Less) Post on Covid 74

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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(Anonymous) 2023-01-04 09:18 pm (UTC)(link)Ron M
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Either way, you're also a taxpayer, and anyone can take the angle of concerns about misuse of taxpayer dollars going to pharmaceutical companies for drugs that have been shown not to be effective, as well as all the federal funding that was released for emergency measures that appear to have contributed - in the government's own words - to creating a worse health crisis, particularly, for children, this winter. The government's commitment to following the science means that citizens can reasonably demand inquiry into whether such practices were effective or even potentially more harmful is required for future pandemic response planning.
Elizabeth May thinks the vaccines are a great idea, at least publicly; but she recently started calling for governments to force big pharma to give up the patents to the mRNA vaccines because it's unfair that poor African nations can't afford to vaccinate, and should be supported to make their own in-house vaccines. For *some strange reason* I think this would actually be an effective line to be able to build a coalition around and kill a handful of birds with one stone.
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(Anonymous) 2023-01-08 02:04 pm (UTC)(link)I have referenced, and provided links to literally hundreds of peer reviewed medical studies to my MP, MPP and city councillor. The reaction? Crickets. However, I have not tried the 'tax payer angle' and now may be a good time to use it. In politics, like in so many other aspects of life, timing is crucial.
Ron M