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John Michael Greer ([personal profile] ecosophia) wrote2023-01-10 01:34 pm

Open (More or Less) Post on Covid 75

ironicallyAs 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 uselessness 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. 

This an wild speculation threat it as such

(Anonymous) 2023-01-11 09:33 am (UTC)(link)
I put this out-there as speculation in case you too have some anecdotal information.

There are a lot of layoffs in IT, I see the layoffs much often include the waxxinated, is there a possibility that companies use layoffs just to get rid of people that are sickly stealthily.

Also hybrid and on-site and now the general push to get to office could be pushed just for HR to sift through the people that are too sickly to come to office.

Re: This an wild speculation threat it as such

(Anonymous) 2023-01-11 05:41 pm (UTC)(link)
I worked in HR in a few major companies, and whenever layoffs happen, one goal is to get rid of the people who are more expensive to keep. In the US, health insurance is a major variable for cost for a lot of positions, and as far as I know, no one has an official policy to make sure people using it get laid off, but it's fairly easy, and at least where I worked common, to craft the metrics used to get rid of people who were.

If the number of people using the corporate health insurance has suddenly increased, that could dramatically increase the costs; and at the same time, the health problems could easily cause a drop in productivity. Both of these together could easily push businesses which were doing okay into serious financial difficulties; and that's before factoring in the way investor capital is drying up....

Re: This an wild speculation threat it as such

(Anonymous) 2023-01-12 02:13 am (UTC)(link)
Thanks for that insider info!

Re: This an wild speculation threat it as such

(Anonymous) 2023-01-12 01:08 pm (UTC)(link)
How many months do you have between lost health and getting dropkicked out the door? 6? 8?

Job or jab, job or jab...

Re: This an wild speculation threat it as such

(Anonymous) 2023-01-12 10:41 pm (UTC)(link)
Depends on a host of factors. One of which is that it's common for layoffs to be done in bunches; so it'll depend on when exactly the next round of scheduled layoffs are going to hit; it'll also depend on whether or not you actually contribute to the company, with some positions being more likely to be dependent on actual contributions than others; rank, with higher ups being less likely to face this sort of issue, provided they perform; and so on through a host of factors.

Re: This an wild speculation threat it as such

(Anonymous) 2023-01-12 05:03 pm (UTC)(link)
Craft the Metrics.

Quite a phrase. Tinged with the ominous and a bit iconographic.
I want to put it in italics.
Sounds like a medieval trade guild also.

Craft the matrix.

Re: This an wild speculation threat it as such

(Anonymous) 2023-01-11 06:07 pm (UTC)(link)
It seems equally possible that mass layoffs were foreseen a year and a half ago and mandates were used to get a head-start on them.

Jonathan.

Re: This an wild speculation threat it as such

(Anonymous) 2023-01-12 08:15 am (UTC)(link)
Is going to be a mess in IT down the road. A lot of unpredictable AI, unmaintained and unmaintainable automation, a lot of centralised infrastructure.

Layoffs based on politics rather than competence, in software US reigned supreme expect this to go down the drain too in the next couple of years.

Re: This an wild speculation threat it as such

(Anonymous) 2023-01-11 07:27 pm (UTC)(link)
One of the things layoffs attempt to do is shed the least productive and most disruptive people from the payroll. I doubt that there is a conscious push to remove all the vaccine injured people, but if you're constantly sick it's hard to be performing at your best from either a productive or social standpoint.

Another one of the ironies of the jab; people took it to keep their jobs and now they're losing them because they took it.

Re: This an wild speculation threat it as such

(Anonymous) 2023-01-12 03:45 pm (UTC)(link)
>shed the least productive and most disruptive people from the payroll

As perceived by management. Which often has an inaccurate perception of reality. That's part of the process of decline, firing the wrong people.

>people took it to keep their jobs and now they're losing them because they took it.

You are hardwired to "roll the dice and hope", even when it's statistically better to take the loss.