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Open (More or Less) Post on Covid 96

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: Polly Toynbee
Thanks for sharing this. Alas, I think this is what one can expect from people who are so dead-certain that they are the Good People who did The Right Thing and that those who question that in any way are the Very Bad, Ignorant, Selfish, Low-Class, and Icky-Crazy People. It's like a religion, and the object of worship is their image of themselves.
I sometimes think of them as having stepped into a sort of golden calf suit, and zipped themselves in.
Two of my transcripts capture this rather horribly. I already posted them on this forum, but if anyone wants to take a look:
On a Sidewalk in Calgary: Bev Meets Denis, Denis Meets Bev
"I'm trying to tell you something"
TRANSCRIPT: https://transcriberb.dreamwidth.org/69550.html
source video:
https://video.twimg.com/amplify_video/1635636270662656005/vid/576x1024/mDvMj5a4Max8fvPD.mp4?tag=16
Two Washington, DC Citizens Demonstrate "Vaccine Hesitancy" (June 2021)
"That's what this pandemic is. It's fear, it's fear, this pandemic. That's all it is."
TRANSCRIPT: https://transcriberb.dreamwidth.org/77359.html
source video:
AMERICAN MASTERS Dr. Fauci visits D.C. to battle vaccine hesitancy
Season 37 Episode 2 | 7m 2s , Film premier 3/21/23
Promotional Clip:
https://player.pbs.org/viralplayer/3078349760/