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

Re: Religious affiliation since the coof?

[sinners4diseasecontrol]

In Japan, COVID seemed to deliver a very serious blow to any organized religion. There was a prominent case early on of a superspreader event in a South Korean church that got a lot of press attention here. In response, all of the religious organizations I know of stopped holding public events and at best held quiet private festivals with the most highly involved priests. Even with the pandemic declared over and people no longer required to wear masks, attendance is not picking up. Instead, it is dying out.
Most of Japan's religious people tended to be older to begin with, and they had a very high vaccination rate. One member of a group I am active with was hospitalized with something or other and shared a room with a COVID patient, from whom he caught the bug and was subsequently neglected enough that he phoned a family member saying, "I'm dying. Can you call the nurse to me?" He passed away some ten minutes later, we were told. Others simply perceive themselves as having aged a lot, and are too preoccupied with struggling through each day to attend to spiritual matters. One group I belong to appears to be on its last legs, and another group I have been active with for nearly 25 years is not holding its training course this year for the 4th year in a row. They'll provide a mini-course online.
Most of the younger people I know have been prevented from doing very much outside the home and every time I ask, the situation is the same. We have a holiday coming up, but no one is going anywhere, not even hiking. COVID caused Japan simply to go very local, close its doors, and stop engaging in all forms of "unnecessary" cultural or spiritual activities. Along with face masks, it appears to have created permanent or near-permanent changes in this society. I don't know how it will all play out, but the situation is very sad at the moment.

Re: Religious affiliation since the coof?

[methylethyl]

That's disheartening, and I'm sad to hear it. But thank you for helping me try to piece together a broader picture.

Re: Religious affiliation since the coof?

[(Anonymous)]

>>They'll provide a mini-course online.

Online, you say? Care to name the organization?

日本語でもいいです。

Re: Religious affiliation since the coof?

[sinners4diseasecontrol]

The organization is Kotohira Honkyo at Kompira Shrine. Participation is predicated on an introduction by someone involved already with the organization.
Here is Wikipedia on them: https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/金刀比羅本教

Re: Religious affiliation since the coof?

[weilong]

Something that has been bothering me from the beginning of this thing is the longevity of institutions and customs in Japan. Once something gets started here, it can often skate along on social momentum for centuries. I am only half facetious when I predict that face masks will still be popular here in three hundred years, long after the original reason (such as it is) for them has been forgotten.

I think the opposite might also be true. Once some tradition is stopped, it may be very hard to start it up again. Religious festivals, for example, are a lot of work, and it takes practice to get them right. I think a lot of people are quite happy with an excuse to be lazy and let those traditions slip away.

Re: Religious affiliation since the coof?

[sinners4diseasecontrol]

I think you are right, and when the need for social cohesion returns (the phones go dead and the fields need tending), they'll have to start from scratch with what institutions they have on hand and modify them for the purpose.