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John Michael Greer ([personal profile] ecosophia) wrote2023-06-06 01:34 pm

Open (More or Less) Post on Covid 96

absurdities and atrocitiesAs 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.

(Anonymous) 2023-06-13 06:09 am (UTC)(link)
Indeed, big winds can throw embers amazingly far which can burn down houses rather far away from a main fire and very fast. For example, October 2017, Tubbs wildfire in Santa Rosa, Calif. I was about a 2 hours drive away and the air was so low in humidity I could not get my breath to fog my glasses to clean them. VERY unusual. The wildfire started in foothills east of Santa Rosa. 230+ mph afternoon winds were created in some places by accelerating like a blowtorch thanks to the Venturi Effect caused by the terrain -- blowing directly at a super cheap subdivision. Houses there all single pane glass which implodes in the high heat (letting inside more embers) and super cheap roofs. A recipe for houses that go "poof" in 1-2 minutes to totally combust. Lots of "conspiracy theory" pix of that particular subdivision in the news this week of why did that subdivision's houses go fast to ashes while many large trees survived. Those trees survived due to their thick bark and not being oily-explosive trees like big mature eucalyptus trees or soft pine trees. That subdivision was super cheap land before the houses were built because in living memory another Venturi Effect wildfire blowtorch from the very same eastern foothills terrain had already burned it.

When I first saw the Quebec fires pop up simultaneously on that satellite imagery with very fast winds carrying the smoke plumes all in one direction to the southwest I wondered first had there been any lightning storms in the past 1-4 days which might have been smoldering along waiting for big winds to trigger a big blow up into a wildfire just like the August 2020 wildfires all around San Francisco Bay which had beforehand a (mostly) dry squall line of thunderstorm cells with lots of lighting pass through. I recall being woken up from a dead sleep n the middle of the night when that squall line moved through rattling my home's windows. - the fires which burned Big Basin State Park turning the sky orange for many days.
https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/2-000-year-old-redwoods-survive-wildfire-california-s-oldest-n1237949

I've followed California wildfires for many decades. Seen a shocking near lack of controlled burns and thinning around SF Bay Area which was mostly all logged by the 1890's and now has overgrown secondary very poor managed forest growth. When the Spanish first arrived here in the late 1760's trying to find SF Bay on foot (since the Golden Gate entrance is so foggy and narrow finding it from the Pacific Ocean is tough) they found all the foothills around it blotched with patches of green of all shades, with grey, brown and black patches, too, because the first people here had been doing controlled burns for millennia for lots of reasons from reducing oak acorn boll weevil populations to clearing sight lines to be able to see apex predators such as wolves and grizzly bears. Same thing happened in the eastern forests of North America such as in Quebec.

All said, if solid evidence comes up the 2023 Quebec fires were caused by arson or somehow manmade I'd not be surprised given this crazy times.

W.R.