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John Michael Greer ([personal profile] ecosophia) wrote2023-04-25 12:42 pm

Open (More or Less) Post on Covid 90

seatbeltAs 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, religions, 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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Re: army grounds aviators

[personal profile] thinking_turtle 2023-04-30 12:22 pm (UTC)(link)

Maintenance is what I hear about too. Every year, about 10% is shaved off the maintenance budget. Planned lifetimes are extended over and over. The result is less robustness.

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Re: shedding

[personal profile] thinking_turtle 2023-04-30 12:28 pm (UTC)(link)

Does anyone have thoughts on the shedding or how they are navigating this?

Nurses and physicians are some of the healthiest people around. In all cultures families say farewell to the dying in person. I don't believe being around the sick, vaccinated or dying is dangerous.

(Anonymous) 2023-04-30 01:12 pm (UTC)(link)
Oh! I'll find it later and re post.
Good morning

Erika

Re: Minnesota Surgeon Dr. Jeff Horak Advises the Fergus Falls School Board on Mask Mandates

(Anonymous) 2023-04-30 01:24 pm (UTC)(link)
I remember back on one of the earlier posts (it may even have been the hypothesis post itself), saying that this was the most likely outcome if things started going south: the narrative would spin; Covid was an ordinary flu virus; the lockdowns and shutdowns and the like were never needed and were all Trump's fault; and the vaccines were dangerous, untested, and had been authorized by Trump's FDA; that the scientists had been trying to warn us this was going to end very badly, but were being blocked by Republicans; and so on to try to blame the entire thing on Trump and Republicans, no matter how disconnected they needed to get from the facts. Most of the comments were saying that this was too absurd, that they could not see it happening even with everything else that had happened.

It's starting to look like I was right, and all I can say is I wish this weren't the case....

Re: army grounds aviators

(Anonymous) 2023-04-30 01:35 pm (UTC)(link)
Now I'm picturing Alfred E. Newman on a recrutiment poster in an aviator's outfit saying, 'What me worry? I'm a pilot now.'

Re: Mercola - Doctors Were Bribed for COVID Vaccination Coercion

(Anonymous) 2023-04-30 01:39 pm (UTC)(link)
Sounds like a Tarantino movie. Dr. Hired Hitman.

Physician A unfolds the map. Physician B checks the silencer on his syringe.

(Anonymous) 2023-04-30 01:41 pm (UTC)(link)
One look at that big cheese from England, pale-ish, sort of a Prince William lookalike if you factor in 25% potato face, I see him grinning in photos all the time and yeah, that's a flaming incompetent.

Re: First time post.

(Anonymous) 2023-04-30 01:43 pm (UTC)(link)
Moreso than the Reich propaganda? Or Sovietization propaganda? Or 'The American Dream-Exceptionalism' propaganda?

Not arguing, just wonder.

It was pretty much intense though for sure. And it hasn't stopped.

Re: Covid & Collapsing - Stray thoughts

(Anonymous) 2023-04-30 01:49 pm (UTC)(link)
This is helpful Ron, to think in terms of a practical creative skill.

Re: First time post.

(Anonymous) 2023-04-30 02:41 pm (UTC)(link)
Read up on The American Protective League of 1916-1917 and post back on what you found. There was jail time for the non-compliant and much more dictatorial hard power than we've seen. What we have now is the exhausted and highly stupid empire trying to act like that one then.

(Anonymous) 2023-04-30 02:45 pm (UTC)(link)
reposting this because i did it wrong before:

http://erikalopez.com/james-ron-and-heloises-notes/

and Deathcap, great minds think alike because my FIRST idea was to do LOS UNGOVERNABLES death metal style. okay, it was SECOND because the first idea was equally illegible as i was going for the Old English lettering.

i'm re-considering my worm lizard now. he needs more warts/nipple thingies to pull on for pleasure and more centipede legs (inspired by fauci).

x

erika

(Anonymous) 2023-04-30 02:52 pm (UTC)(link)
i saw that the last time i went to general hospital and all these people my age (gen x) were in line and poor-to-homeless, with canes and hopped up on dozens of meds. one guy said his doc was great because he went from about 30 daily meds to a dozen.

one woman had a breast implant from after cancer that was now turning against her and she was at the hand doctor to try and get someone there to take it out because no one else would for some bureaucratic blah blah blah reason. still, they scheduled her knowing this.

she defended the vax. wouldn't hear anything against it because "it really saves lives." she KNEW.

when i got to the window they bitched at me for taking off my mask to speak through the bullet proof glass and i threw it in the trash and left and said no more to my nurse practitioner that they replaced all our doctors with.

yes.

we are food as we are.

it's human sausage stripping all the way to the grave and beyond if the state repossesses your house from your kids to cover the sausage-making costs.

good morning!

(smile)

erika

Re: The Demonic Hypothesis

(Anonymous) 2023-04-30 02:57 pm (UTC)(link)
and you made my head go BOOM!

because SIMULATION... whoa... glitch in the matrix.. YEAH...

and different levels of people/energies breaking through...

now my brain has a stitch in it again. (a cramp.)


erika

Re: Anecdata from GB homelessness charity

[personal profile] escorcher 2023-04-30 02:59 pm (UTC)(link)
Agree - that's definitely a fairly big part I feel. Thanks for your insight.

i tried...

(Anonymous) 2023-04-30 04:02 pm (UTC)(link)
maybe because it's sunday and the music i am listening to is too beautiful, but i TRIED to listen/watch the forever consciousness research channel and i can't get too far. i tried twice. i wanna have my head bend to how others think in this realm so i can better understand all these sides but ...the pessimism... it makes me itchy because i embrace my own sets of pessimisms but this is just too...

i feel like this is WESTERN, this pessimism. it's the luxury of us who have too much time too many stories too many broken dreams and hearts.

that said, MAYBE IT'S TRUE: maybe this IS a prison?

BUT as i was watching the video, behind him are trees with leaves rustling in the wind and it mocks all he says.

i don't think this is hell here because i've had pleasures insights and relationships that were transcendent ARE transcendent.

i don't mean to be glib or trite but maybe... maybe we've made our own hell? i'm living in san francisco, one of the most beautiful cities in the world and it's HELL here. it's a beautiful constant water torture of agony here. it's confusing to me.

but WE allow this. we always do.

that's why i thought white folks were grand with all this crap. i didn't know until the coof that you all were just as oblivious as the rest of us.

even as i write what i think, i'm not so sure i'm not full of crap, either.

regardless... prison or not, i've had a lot of fun here and even see more to be had in this "hell."

i like it here when i'm not trying to commit suicide. (giggle)

so i suppose i too have an optimism bias. maybe because we're creators ourselves, and the ACT of creation is like communing with the gods. i've been reading Macros Mateu-Mestre's books on art/line/perspective/mise en scene etc and even he takes the sacred approach to his work, which is hella old fashioned in art books of today. they're all quick patches whereas he's about how to approach a NEW WORLD you're building.

just playing around with this "LOS UNGOVERNABLES" concept makes me feel like i'm answering Ursula Leguin's quote: “This is the treason of the artist: a refusal to admit the banality of evil and the terrible boredom of pain.”

i feel like i'm here alive for a REASON. to pitch sell show articulate share LIVE the defiance.

all these things take courage to be DIFFERENT disagree take the hits.

i watched a third of that video, his opener at forever consciousness research channel, "HARD TRUTH What's The Point of Life? Why Are We Here? A Common Sense Look at Earth & The Afterlife," and i even got caught up in looking at the acne scars on his face (i love acne scars as they give character and my best friend in art school insisted that men with acne scars were the most masculine).

heck, just the human FACE is beautiful.... whether it's ageing wrinkled smooth young caked in makeup or hairy... the EYES are stars. that's why youtube makes a killing. all you need are FACES and you've got stars. people are fascinating.

even when we're horrible or stupid.

so do we have it in us to flip the board???

now things get interesting!

i buried my lede because it took me to the end of this to arrive at my point or my realization:

when you go out into the realm of humans ready for an adventure, nothing will be boring. meaning say what you hold back, don't save face. be vulnerable real open confused or angry or sad or loving and watch what happens. you can't do it with armour. you have to be naked to be STRONG now. your vulnerability and heart will (or can) disarm an opponent and connect them to be an ally, however faint.

it's a start. that's my optimism.

my optimism is Papa G, Jeff Childers, Naomi Wolf... and people HERE HERE HERE.

when i was at my most suicidal 11 years ago, i soon realized i was spitting on all of James' love and intentions, and i was ashamed that i was looking over his shoulder for some "other" miracle some "better" more ME ME ME miracle to save me and i saw how pathetic my despair at that time was.

i'd just lost my CAREER, livelihood, status, fans, respect...

EEEEW! i was so shallow and thought i was deep. i was just all talk. the act of LOVING and appreciating James and our world is holy for me and keeps Mordor bearable.

when humans are cuddling and fxcking well... how could this possibly be prison???

so i wanna watch/listen and share your horror and insights, but even if you're right, i prefer my art world my real world my James world my Kitty World. they are heaven. this open POST here is heaven for many of us alone.

so dear anonymous, thank you for even being willing to share your pessimism. i am drawn to it because at least it is honest. the so-called happy people are making life hell.

yes. i'm confused.

(smile)

good sunday morning. it could be a sunday thing this optimism. i grew up where there were blue laws and sunday was all hush quiet and the world stopped for a moment like when stores used to close on thanksgiving.

we whored ourselves out mercilessly for the stuff. WE made and make hell. even now. every liberal thing like making people with excellent credit scores pay more so crappy credit scores can buy in. but don't cut back on immigration or corporations like blackrock buying up pallets of our single family homes!

WE are hell. / but some of us are angels. here as angels. some guy named Papa JUJU with a long grey braided beard and beads in it and a tall wooden staff in trader joe's, he told me. i walked in and recognized him in the bread aisle as KIN! i said, "you're an ANGEL!" and he came up to me, put his nose up to mine, looked right in my eyes and said, "who do you think YOU are?"

and i didn't move my face from his... just tears streamed down my cheeks because he's right. WE who decide to be angels will be angels. you can flick in and out of it like god or jesus. you can flip into the devil in a second. i have and can and still do. it's a struggle a painful struggle to duddly do-right. i sob. i get enraged when i have principles to uphold. sometimes i don't want them.

later when people return with love, i'm glad for them. they do outshine the tarnish of time. tucker carlson is hella right on that one. in the short maybe it's not so good, but in the long? you may not be here and you cannot care.

this is beyond ego and crappy apartments and not getting wishes met.

i'm still lost. i'm just talking MY smack.

but what i do know is that vulnerability love and wanting to belong or adored is what's causing ALL this and that's tragic. no one can meet much offline because it's so easy to smell good online. online is eternal fantasy and perfection and hungrily looking for the next thing to EAT.

they ate Sage Hana already. couldn't let him be mystery. the internet is about making everything ugly or cheap sentimentality.

except here and a few places. it's just the terms of engagement. the internet is a cauldron of our lost and wailing tortured souls.

to me the rustling tree leaves and beautiful acne scars of a searching man undermined his thesis. HE was beautiful. his searching was holy. even if he thought it was all in the crapper, he contradicted that in his BEING. the internet tries to hide that.

us artists see it. or we used to. some still do.

that's all i know. i can't do anything if this is a prison but i can have fun in it. i like the "you can imprison my body but not my spirit" idea. that's a great idea regardless of who's got your hands behind your back.

this is why i wanna draw things that don't argue with all this but show its inherent repugnance... i want my art to incite the involuntary gag reflex around all this current thinking and being and doing.

erika

Re: shedding

(Anonymous) 2023-04-30 04:32 pm (UTC)(link)
This is lovely, Cetiosaurus. I'm unfoxxed, had the 'rona in January, and it wasn't a big deal. Losing my sense of smell and taste for a few weeks was about the worst of it. It's a shame I did not have any Ivermectin on hand, but I'm trying to remedy that now.

What type of natto do you prefer? I plan to make a trip to our local Asian supermarket tomorrow to see what they have. It seems that there are a million varieties talked about on the internet. It's a little overwhelming. But, if I've leftover spike circulating in my system, let's get it gone!

I love your positive outlook. It's always a delight to see your kind message to all here each and every week.

Valerie

Re: In terms of future alternatives -- banishing social 'unclean-ness'?

[personal profile] jdecandia 2023-04-30 04:34 pm (UTC)(link)
I really love this re framing of the situation.

Re: In terms of future alternatives -- banishing social 'unclean-ness'?

(Anonymous) 2023-04-30 05:15 pm (UTC)(link)
Thank you so much for your comment jdecandia. It means a lot to me that this resonates with someone else too. Blessings on you and yours.

Scarlet Slithy Cactus

Retraction Watch

(Anonymous) 2023-04-30 05:24 pm (UTC)(link)
Found via AMD's latest post:

Retraction Watch (https://retractionwatch.com/)

Tracking retractions as a window into the scientific process

Re: Minnesota Surgeon Dr. Jeff Horak Advises the Fergus Falls School Board on Mask Mandates

(Anonymous) 2023-04-30 05:27 pm (UTC)(link)
One problem with blaming the COVID fiasco on Trump is the cognitive dissonance of all the vaccine true believers. I have family members who are still proudly asserting how GOOD they are because they are fully vaccinated and boosted. If the vaccines are suddenly associated with orange man bad, those family members' heads are going to explode. I guess it will be entertaining, if nothing else...

Re: i tried...

[personal profile] va_mtn_man 2023-04-30 06:19 pm (UTC)(link)
Pessimism is a glitch in the matrix. Waste of energy

Let us just observe nature. The flower always breaks through the concrete and blooms. The beetle upside down on his her back always uprights eventually. We shall prevail, we shall overcome. Of this we can be sure.

VA Mtn Man

Re: Vision update!

(Anonymous) 2023-04-30 06:28 pm (UTC)(link)
Please get tested for glaucoma!

(Anonymous) 2023-04-30 06:39 pm (UTC)(link)
i'm so glad that you posted this Kingsnorth link because it's taken over my sunday (his articles and links out of 'em) and is what i'm now ready for as i look into the demon hypothesis ..steiner... AI.

i'm scared and am now ready, because i get the bends each new level of considering these ideas that i want to seem or remain "crazy" but refuse to BE "crazy."

what i KEEP seeing even in the comments on one of his linked posts elsewhere, is that creating real things in the world (art/craft...) IS the protection.

erika
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Re: shedding

[personal profile] methylethyl 2023-04-30 07:26 pm (UTC)(link)
The vaxd... maybe they will all line up for the next one. But I suspect there'll be a sizable contingent that have either A) learned caution, or B) died.

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