Open (More or Less) Post on Covid 90
Apr. 25th, 2023 12:42 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)

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.
People I know
Date: 2023-04-28 03:19 am (UTC)During the height of the panic, less than half the populace wore masks in public -- the largest employer required the shot & lost a large percentage of their employees to a nearby competitor who didn't. Also lost a lawsuit by fired employees for compensation.
I never saw a rabid Karen or Ken in my small town (pop 2000).
The nearest large town in the state (pop 200k) had more visible compliance, but still saw lots of unmasked people, and knew quite a few seeking and receiving exemptions from the V. In the large town, signs on stores required masks but I never used one and wasn't ever stopped. Got the stink eye from a masked Karen only one time -- I smiled in return.
So, yes, I'd say people are willing to accept the conspiracy angle and know who is behind it (per conversations) and have a dark view of where this is all going.