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

[baconrolypoly]

It was like that at the hairdresser I use, plexiglass screens between the seats. I did ask how it worked, given that hair dryers were in use at nearly every chair, blowing around any germs that might be about, but didn't get an answer.

[methylethyl]

The tickbox was checked. That's all that mattered.

[(Anonymous)]

Less than a month ago, I went in for a scheduled doctor's visit. The doc had a very noticeable respiratory infection, speaking hoarsely and coughing periodically. She made sure to tell me that it wasn't Covid, and insisted on standing eight or ten feet away. Then she made a big point of reassuring me that she'd do my thyroid exam while holding her breath. She continued that performance while examining my feet.

I looked down and said, "You know, I can see your nose through the gap at the top of that mask. It's fine with me if you just take it off." Nope. Out she went, to exhale in the hallway. Not the slightest speck of common sense was evident, but it was all very chipper.

I've got some longstanding health issues that require prescriptions, so opting out of all allopathic care really isn't an option for me. Now, the primary criterion I look for is a solo practitioner, or at least someone not in a large, money-grubbing practice more interested in serving Mammon than the patient. I don't trust anyone I used to see. My eyes have been opened.

[methylethyl]

I stay away from doctors whenever possible, but when I do have to go... as soon as something weird and nonsensical happens, I'm out. This sounds like one of those situations.

First ran into that years and years ago: new town, new doc, highly recommended by people I knew. Got in the office on the 11th day of a migraine... and the PA left me in an exam room with a smock and instructions to undress.

For a headache. On my first visit. Before I ever even met the doctor. No medical reason for that, IMO, but lots of psychological gamesmanship in it-- can't think of a better way to establish an unequal power dynamic right up front than insisting one party be naked at the first meeting. Never went there again.