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Open (More or Less) Post on Covid 90

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.
Re: Religious affiliation since the coof?
(Anonymous) 2023-04-27 12:56 pm (UTC)(link)That's the way I feel about the arts, frankly.
I used to like attending live music, dance, and theater events and going to art museums (to see the older stuff, not the contemporary crap, lol). But when all the theaters and museums voluntarily imposed medical passports, I unsubscribed from every single one of their email lists. And I fully intend to boycott every single one of those institutions and the ones like them until I die. We're done.
Meanwhile, I stepped up my spiritual practice during covid and am trying to keep that going. I don't go to church, but I do try to meditate and pray regularly on my own. My church affiliation is still "none" but I doubt I'm the only person out there with no official institutional affiliation who really saw the need for prayer in recent years.
Re: Religious affiliation since the coof?
My mom's involved in the local community theater scene, and they've had a rough time of it for sure. They resisted the masks-and-passports thing, but interest still isn't what it used to be.
Re: Religious affiliation since the coof?
(Anonymous) 2023-04-27 06:21 pm (UTC)(link)That's too bad.
Not all arts organizations succumbed - but so many did (at least in the blue states) that I suspect the whole sector may be suffering from guilt by association.