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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: TPTB have lost their social license
(Anonymous) 2023-06-09 08:35 pm (UTC)(link)Re: TPTB have lost their social license
(Anonymous) 2023-06-10 12:19 am (UTC)(link)I appreciate that you may be concerned about winning people over to one side of the fence or other, but the point of my post wasn't to do that, nor do I really think it's possible to that in this case.
The events at play are far bigger than mere individuals, with large currents that a mere individual such as me can't hope to prevent, or steer. Those currents are going to surge around all of us individuals and go where they need to go. They have a momentum all of their own now and are beyond control.
If, for example, you think Sage is bad, well, I first went to Sage's page via a link from a 'questionable' poster over at Gail's site where I lurk sometimes, but I clicked the link anyway, if only to entertain myself with some lunatic's fancy, and right there at the top of the page was just what I needed :)
My way is to read whatever I want, from whoever I want, and make up my own mind irrespective of whether I think they may be a madman, or an eco-fascist, or whoever, and irrespective of whether I agree with everything else they say about this or that. I'm more interested in the truth of the message in question, rather than shooting the messenger.
The Ninth Mouse
Re: TPTB have lost their social license
(Anonymous) 2023-06-10 03:01 am (UTC)(link)How about an ecofascist and/or totalitarian one-world-government with 'plans for everyone'!
Hmmm, hang on a sec. . . :P
But if the authorities have already managed to unleash a big enough surge of people who simply don't rate them, then that wave may have enough force to sweep most/all of us wherever it wants to go no matter what we say, or what reservations we have.
It's a troubling thought.
The Ninth Mouse