Open (More or Less) Post on Covid 96

[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 think we're seeing the early stages of it in the employment/jobs/disability numbers.

Tons of jobs. Not enough people who can/will fill them. Disability numbers soaring.

At least part of that is people simply leaving formal employment for greener pastures: informal work, shadetree businesses. But a big chunk of it may be a lot of people, at all levels, who are no longer able to hold down a job. In "nice" professions, this looks like a bunch of people taking early retirement. In gruntwork, this just looks like businesses cutting their hours, closing lobbies, or automating their checkouts because they can't get enough humans to fill the jobs. Maybe some of that is not offering enough $$ to make it worthwhile. I don't think that's the whole picture.

[(Anonymous)]

"Maybe some of that is not offering enough $$ to make it worthwhile. I don't think that's the whole picture."

Well, I'm in the midst of a round of job hunting, and will say I've never seen so many good jobs open to hiring and offering to pay as much as I do right now. They may suck, and likely some of them will, but right now it looks like the absolute best job market I've ever seen for employees. So, unless these jobs have some sort of hidden evil, I simply can't imagine that this is even much of a factor at all.

The degree of flexibility on display is also unprecedented, so the only explanation that makes sense to me is that there are a ton of people out there who are simply unable to work.

[(Anonymous)]

If this is the case, I'd *kind of* expect to see it more in physically demanding jobs-- the sort where you have to be on your feet all day (warehouse runners, food service, nurses), or where the job description says you have to be able to lift 50 or 100 pounds. BUT it might also be happening in cognitively demanding fields, given what we're hearing about neurological effects. It's just... I'm not sure it'd be as clear-cut there, because those workplaces are also more likely to have a lot of BS jobs that don't demand much at all, and that might mask the problem a bit.

If it's not too nosy, what sorts of jobs are you seeing this in?

[(Anonymous)]

Warehouses, construction, service work, restaurants, across the board. The one which really caught my eye though was that there are a number of jobs which used to require expensive training in advance, connections, or prior training that are now willing to train. Jobs such as some cushy bank jobs, jobs in the local hospital, or government jobs now.

I'm fairly open to see where my job hunting goes, so I'm looking at a little bit of everything. Given I can survive a few months unemployed (or even longer if need be by moving in with family), I'm willing to take chances and look at things I know I'm not qualified for; but a good number of these are calling me back too now....

This may not match your experiences in the US; I'm not sure how high your vaccination rates are, but I'd bet a fair sum of money that they're substantially lower than ours here. Not just do I live in Canada, but I live in Ottawa, which is about as Middle Class a city as you'll ever find; so it's entirely possible what's happening is way, way, way worse here than most other places.

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[(Anonymous)]

Hello fellow Ottawan. Nice to know at least a few other sane people are here in town! Ron M who posts here is in Ontario, not sure if also an Ottawan. I think the high vax uptake here is having stronger effects than a lot of places. Also I think a fair number of people skipped town when peole were being very bonkers (like the Mom at the kids playground in Jan 2022 who was screaming about killing the unvaccinated). God Bless the truckers.

Stuart Cram

[(Anonymous)]

I'm delighted to hear OTJ is making a comeback somewhere!

After reading this thread, I went and trawled the local job listings (have been out of the market a while) to see what people were asking for... and it seems like it's still flooded with the usual BS where they only want someone with 3yrs experience operating this very particular equipment, specialized training and licensing, etc. Though I did see a higher-than-expected number of listings for high-school education, willing-to-help-you-get-the-licensing positions, so perhaps things are starting to bend after all.

[(Anonymous)]

Depends on whose figures you believe, the US could be missing up to 2-3M workers due to vax injury.

[(Anonymous)]

Three people in positions that I could get promoted to are C19 vaxx sick - constant colds, allergies, over reactions to C19. I may have a promotion in my future at this rate. They are going to have to hire white men because we are quickly getting to an all hands on deck kind of situation.