Open (More or Less) Post on Covid 90

[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 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.

Comments

[(Anonymous)]

I agree. No matter what side of the political spectrum you are on, the Tucker purge is a watershed moment. Also see how the govt is going after Matt Taibbi right now.
My working hypothesis is that the Dominion lawsuit was a cover for, not the cause of, Tucker's release from Fox. Bigger fish with badder motives wanted this to happen.
I grew up believing I was a free American, and that "American" and "free" were synonymous. I don't believe that anymore. I am trying to pay attention to the way society wants me to police my speech (and by extension, my thought) because if I police those things, my thinking will change and I will no longer think those things. The level of thought policing required by Wokeism is huge, and it opened my eyes.
JMG you quoted only 8% of Americans buy into Wokeism. It seems bad for Wokeism but most of the other 92% are doing the policing demanded of them and this will have tangible effects as they have been effectively neutralized in thought. The 15-20% of Americans unwilling to be neutralized are being labelled and dispensed as (Trump/MAGA/right-wing/hateful) extremists. And this strategy is working.

[drakonus]

I personally see it failing more than I see it working. Granted I’m in the boonies with conservatives most everyday. But it is exhausting to monitor your speech and thought.
The more draconian you get the less people/area you can enforce it over. After all someone has to enforce all those rules. The only rules that matter are the rules you can enforce. And the shrieking and shrill insistence that we all need to play along is not an indication of someone who is winning. I think one area people get confused is passive resistance. “Weapons of the Weak.” James C. Scott. I love his work.
Most (or a lot) people are mad that there wasn’t some massive battle fought and won. But a simple opting, ignoring and turning the backs on the screechy people. Less boxing match more backing away from the crazy person.