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

Masks are back in style?

[(Anonymous)]

So mass.gov/corona hasn't exactly become my homepage, but I figure it's good for a temperature check every few months. I remain blown away that their dashboard (https://www.mass.gov/info-details/covid-19-response-reporting) clearly shows over 2/3rd of hospitalizations are among vaccinated individuals. But I came here to ask this: with cases below 200/day which is almost as low as the all-time low back in June 2021 (100/day)... why am I seeing more people coming into my retail job wearing masks than I did just a couple months ago when the cases were substantially higher? I feel like I'm out of sync with the times. Is there some new push I've missed? Just asking cause it's comforting to understand the patterns. There's like 3 businesses that still require masks in the entire city. One opera house. What are they waiting for :D. Even a very prominent salsa club gave up the medical papers requirement last month. Boston Bob

Re: Masks are back in style?

[sarad]

I can guess what's up with the opera house - I spent some time in a car with teenage girls, so I know that:

a) The girls today like opera, and

b) Girls have cooties.

It makes as much sense as any other theory.

Re: Masks are back in style?

[(Anonymous)]

Wow that is one strange opera. Like a comic book?
Interesting.
I know a young person who might find this of interest.

Re: Masks are back in style?

[sarad]

So weird! But the kids were obsessed with it!

The "book" the director wrote is just the broadway licensing (songs, score, production notes, etc.) so that others can perform it; it's a traditional theatrical arrangement.

The kids love all things live musical, though. They are busily turning all the teen movies of the last 40 years into musicals which they just eat up, and they were still happily listening to revamped productions of Grease, which made us fogies happy (though their school was doing Kiss Me Kate this year, which they hated, so I suspect some of the older things won't be so revived).

They also made Mean Girls into a musical, and so the girls introduced me to the Tik Tok theory that remakes the entire thing - I've seen that movie so many times, I can't believe I missed that.

Re: Masks are back in style?

[(Anonymous)]

At the hospital for whom I work, the 1/4 of people using masks has held steady. Would appear that those who were attracted in some way to mask wearing will do so for the long term.

Interesting note: I visited some friends last weekend. They never got the mRNA shots, but I had to wear an N95 mask around them.

– Donald Hargraves