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Open (More or Less) Post on Covid 102

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.
Re: The Epiphany (A reflection thread on pandemic choices)
(& dear friends in this lovely place)
I think mine has been not so much an epiphany as discovering, like the growing weight of water, trickle by trickle, filling the reservoir behind a dam what part of me has always known, deep down... Like Gandalf seeking to cross the pass of Caradhras, because he knew, deep down, what lay there...
Mine was a slow burn experience (in the UK). Iffy about three weeks to flatten the curve... but then they don't think like or listen to me anyway...
Lockdowns going on and on and on - most I talk to, seem to be in another world (but, looking back, I did not talk like I do now!)
Bit slow on face masks - I was hard on myself when one of my few non-Covidian friends said 'But I thought you would be exempt.' After a couple of months of wearing a mask, I was exempt from the second our conversation ended.
By the time of the vax. No way!
Never, never, never. I started to gear up to lose my job, drop out of society... and then in late 2021 and early 2022 the tide turned...
JMG. Powerful! Thank you for sharing your response to Danbashaw.
Blessings upon all who share love and truth on this webpage, now and all those these last few distraught years. 'All will be well, and all will be well, and all manner of things shall be well.'