ecosophia | Open (More or Less) Post on Covid 97

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.

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I thought this was an interesting article on the covid response and how it devastated poor people in both over-developed and undeveloped nations, as detailed in "The Covid Consensus" book by historian Toby Green and economist Thomas Fazi (both of whom come from a leftist perspective).

https://markoshinskie8de.substack.com/p/covid-mitigation-crushed-the-poor

The author of the article, Mark Oshinskie, is a substacker I've been following for a while now. He's had some interesting stuff to say about cooties-19 and a variety of related issues - and he's also an avid gardener. Plus, he lives in my home state of New Jersey, so I have some extra appreciation for his perspective, since it comes from someone who's been going through the whole debacle in the same political environment as me.

Some of the biggest arguments I've had about the covid nonsense - including at least one bonafide shouting match of which I'm not overly proud - have involved me informing people who claim to be on the "left" that there was nothing genuinely "left" about the covid response, since all it did was hurt poor and vulnerable people, enrich corporations, transfer wealth upward, and destroy rights and freedoms that the left used to claim to care about, like free speech, freedom of religion/association/assembly, the right to privacy, and workers' rights.

Anyway - the article is worth a read, imo.

- Mauve Erudite Stoat

Thanks for this, Mauve Erudite Stoat, I warmly second your recommendation.

As for workers' well-being, if the governments cared a weasel's u-no-whut about that, they never, not in a billion years, would have put mandates on workers, and most especially not on workers who had been on the frontlines and already had covid. Yes, some European countries allowed for natural immunity, but that was not so in the US, not Canada, nor Australia, nor many other countries. It was one size fits all, JAB 'em JAB 'em JAB 'em.

The covid policies crushed and ruined so many working people and their families it is beyond obscene, and in going along with this, the left disgraced itself thorughly, as did the medical profession. And the profession formerly known as "journalism," too.

Thankfully, there are many exceptions, individuals who spoke out and others who, behind the scenes, have been working to make a difference.

Trying to stay positive in the midst of this smoking crater of cruelty and idiocy, I am,

Grumbling Grumbledore

Grumbling, I sympathize. I am starting to see now the impact of the past three insane years on Japanese society. My brother-in-law knows several people wheelchair bound after the shots, which on the surface were not coerced, but in the context of a society in which an order for a community to jump off a cliff was. in living memory. taken seriously and anyone escaping it was shamed, the very high rates of vaccination in this otherwise intelligent society can be understood. My husband who stopped at the second shot because it impacted his immune system and he knew from years of experience with Japan's doctors that their reassurances had no validity, accepts that we will now be discriminated against in Japan, while all the "good Japanese" suffer what was inevitable for them. My closest friend and sponsor in the Fuji Faith looked a bit too skinny a couple weeks ago. Now I look out at the blue sky and it seems so far away.
On Sunday we attended my eldest brother-in-law's funeral. Everyone says it was the shot that did it, really bad stroke. The funeral was attended by next of kin, groups of in-laws and his wife's business associates. His cousins did not attend even though they live nearby. Those who attended kept strictly to their little groups, and except for me, did not try to get acquainted with the others.

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