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Open (More or Less) Post on Covid 97

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.
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As for the question about shifting the dialogue to censorship, all I can say is it's weird. I've had conversations at work with a guy I'm really friendly with, a dyed-in the wool old school liberal. He was skeptical of lockdowns and masking but was all in on the shots (and both he and his brother now have developed unexplained heart issues that have required them to go to the ER and then a cardiologist, who has a six-month wait). I told him I wasn't vaxxed and wouldn't get it, and why. I'm pretty sure I've told him three or four times. He just seems to forget. Each time, I've told him why I don't trust Big Pharma and that no regime that engages in mass censorship does so because they are good and benevolent rulers. It's like he can't remember and hold the information.
I have gotten to the point that I don't even bother with most people. They don't want their dreams disrupted by unpleasant realities. If you're five shots in and lining up for more at this point, there's probably no getting through to you anyway. Whenever I see someone shilling the shots now, I just think "Go boost yourself" and go about my day.