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)]

Oh, Kimberly, you must remember the 6-foot circles painted on the grass in urban parks and the strange plastic igloos that restaurants placed in the street gutters in front of their establishments for your dining pleasure... and safety, of course! I remember watching people "enjoying?" their meals in those igloos in the dead of winter because each one had a tower gas heater in it. I kid you not! I couldn't figure out what was most likely to kill the occupants if that fire should spread — breathing the toxic fumes from the melting plastic sheeting and PVC framing or full-body burns from the instantly ignited plastic tarps, dripping down in flaming rivulets on them and their most-likely flammable clothing.

I mean, come on, those sudden-death bubbles made the vaccines look like a relatively safe choice in comparison. Let's not talk about what they looked like in a heavy wind! Only once did I pass by two that had been viciously twisted by a fierce storm into a bent, torn, and deflated mess, half on the sidewalk, half on the street. The risks people were willing to take in order to signal to their peers that they hadn't yet fallen out of the class that could still afford to eat and be seen in the "right" places were simply jaw-dropping.

Surely, you haven't already forgotten the delightful check-out-aisle plexiglass, have you? How was anyone supposed to be able to shop when they've got giant plexiglass walls separating [protecting?] the cahsiers from the customers? That was particularly ludicrous when the stores then taped off a square that you were required to obediently stand in, but which didn't allow you to get to the credit card keypad or hand the cashier any cash.

Any time I got reprimanded for leaving the sacred quarantine square to insert my credit card at the wrong time, I would then dutifully put my card away and get out cash instead. It was always so funny to watch the abusively over-controlling and neurotic cashier then try to get me to leave the quarantine square to hand them my money. Oh, no way, Baby, I am way too obedient for that — you're likely to end up straining a muscle trying to reach around that plexiglass barricade to get my money now!

Mostly, I felt like the cashiers were just as victimized as the rest of us, but woe to the unthinking fool who took it upon himself to enforce the reining covidiocy on me. Did they really think they were going to effortlessly defeat me in their social-signalling flame war? Had they never consider that I might be able to weaponize passive obedience at least as effectively as they were? Child, I will take that conformist straight jacket you're trying to make me wear and turn it into something so non-conformist you wish you had never put in my hands! As Mr. T used to say, "I pity the fool."

— Christophe

[coyote_girl]

I was one of those expendable, er, essential workers in a different occupation. When they called us heroes, I thought it cheapened the term. Then I quickly realized when one is called a hero, they are being set up bigly.

Oh those squares. I would always stand outside of them. When someone asked, I would just say, "Those mark the trap doors."

[(Anonymous)]

I had a routine ready for when somebody insisted on me wearing a mask.

I would say: "I have a condition that prevents me from wearing a mask."

If pressed as to the nature of that condition, I would then say: "I'm not a f***ing idiot."

Sadly, the opportunity to use this never arose.

[(Anonymous)]

Trap doors :D

It is true about "heroes". That's also what we call firefighters, while we simultaneously mandate the awesome array of toxic chemicals in construction materials and furniture... that ensure the firemen all die of cancer before old age. Yay toxic smoke.

It's what we call EMTs while simultaneously not paying them enough to support their families.

It's what we call cops while we cut their funding and appoint DAs who undermine them by releasing dangerous criminals without bail.

Never trust a compliment.

[(Anonymous)]

LOL! That's a keeper. The lines have mostly vanished here in northern New Hampshire but if I ever hear anyone ask what happened to the lines on the floors, I'll just remark casually that the trap doors didn't work right so they gave up.

The local Walgreens here is weird. They still have the 'heroes work here' spray painted on the outside of the building but inside the plexiglass barrier between the clerk and the customer seems to appear and disappear randomly maybe depending on who's at the register. I don't know. I gave up trying to figure it out a long time ago.

JLfromNH/Emerald Pestilent Midge

[(Anonymous)]

"Those mark the trap doors."
Yes, and I will remember that saying. Thank you.

[p_coyle]

get some stickers made, and use them wherever you still find this sort of foolishness.