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)]

Living in central Tokyo and recognizing that the center of power is different from other urban zones, my impression does not reflect upon a terror happening in cities either during, or, more especially, now, after the lockdown phase. My impression is more of a rapidly aging society. We do hear ambulances constantly which may be evidence. Infrastructure and private property appears in decent shape and maintenance is constant and visible with crews always about. Of course, unlike many other areas, Tokyo is a magnet for youth, ambition, and those socialized into the pattern of regular tech-indusrial life.

But I am retired and my garden is more of the mind than the soil, regrettably. My wife is concerned at the "rising crime rate" which from my American perspective, is laughable.

Ending a career, by choice or change of circumstance of some sort is stressful. Yes, publishing is a wreck, but still pumps out reams. I fretted retirement and Covid spiked dreams of travel not yet redeemed. But you can and should keep your hand in your favored occupation irrespective of pay or not. You have a tremendous skill and there are surely gems not yet transmitted cross cultures or hoary versioning in dire need of update. Why not keep your hand in? No harm in staying marginal in the game, even if selling peanuts to drunks in the bleachers.