Open (More or Less) Post on Covid 97

[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

Re: The End of Reliable Services

[(Anonymous)]

"I think there's a bigger-picture thing going on that we are just seeing little glimpses of"

Yeah, FUBAR* customer service, medical "experts" who are usually wrong, my new fridge that doesn't work right; all these things seem to rhyme.

That's why I don't buy the conspiracy theories about the recent madness. Everyone's putting all their chips on hypercomplex systems that break down in ways that afford no explanation. Of course the result is a pandemic response that just makes everything worse!

Sawdust

*I think this term comes from WWII; it's probably a general property of complex systems, which we just have so much more of nowadays.

Re: The End of Reliable Services

[(Anonymous)]

My sibling is an appliance repairman, and I hear a lot of this from him-- it's becoming more difficult to get any kind of customer service from the appliance companies, over the phone. The parts companies are having supply-chain issues and are also getting more difficult to contact. And the appliances themselves, as they get more high-tech, are also declining in quality and lifespan. It's just a bad idea to put a delicate circuitboard into a device whose purpose is to generate *heat*-- such as an oven, stove, clothes-dryer, or even a dishwasher. Eventually, the heat fries the circuit-board, and often the circuit-board costs most of the price of the appliance. The more recent trend is high-end "retro" appliances (think stoves/ovens), that have no circuitboards and all-manual controls (no digital readouts or buttons). That exists now because people are willing to pay *more* for it.

https://bigchill.com/collections/retro.aspx

There's also a growing market for actual antique appliances that've been repaired, repainted, and restored, like these:

https://www.retrostoveandgasworks.com/for-sale

Re: The End of Reliable Services

[fredsmith11]

Hilarious story on YouTube of a guy with high end, home automation recently. He had Alexa and Amazon controlling most aspects of his home.

Of course, we all want Amazon, Google et al monitoring our conversations and controlling our homes - progress at its finest!

Anyway, Alexa heard him say something that it interpreted as racist, so it shut down his whole home.

Cracked me up.

Re: The End of Reliable Services

[jruss]

Seen the rise in retro appliances and the usual suspects calling for their being outlawed due to “the environment.”

Re: The End of Reliable Services

[scotlyn]

Speaking of the call for "retro appliances" to be outlawed...

The grinch will be very happy this Christmas in Ireland, due to all the chimneys that have been blocked off and or removed entirely, as part of "environmental retrofitting" policies. Although it does make sense to add insulation to houses to stop heat escaping to save energy waste, it does not make sense to take out stoves and fireplaces on the basis that electricity will *always* be available to provide heat with.