Open (More or Less) Post on Covid 102

[ecosophia]

As we near the end of 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 Epiphany (A reflection thread on pandemic choices)

[slinky_weasel]

I would say it was a slow process, but thinking about it, it wasn't a slow process from yes to no, it was a slow process from, "meh" to "over my dead body!"

When cooties showed up I was not concerned. I have never had the flu in my life (now mid-50's). None of my immediate family has ever had the flu, including my grandparents who were children during the Spanish Flu. I said that I would like to meet this virus and make friends with it, and I wasn't joking.

So when the shots came out I was not interested in taking one. I mean, why would I? It's all risk and no benefit. And by 2021, it was clear that cooties wasn't anywhere near as deadly as they claimed at first. But then the mandates came out, and it really looked like I would lose my career of 28 years. So, okay, I see the benefit now, sort of.

My very first thought when the shots came out was that there is no way the can claim "safe and effective" with such a new drug. No long-term data at all? Thanks, but come back in a year or two and we'll see. But to MANDATE that everyone take it? It didn't make any sense. Not medically anyway. That really got my hackles up! If it's so good, there should be no reason to mandate it. I became very suspicious and very determined not to take it.

The thought of losing my job was a heavy burden, and I was in a dark place. I vowed to stand my ground, and when they come for me to die in a fire-fight and try to take at least one of them with me. I never actually contemplated suicide, but I think one of the only things that prevented that was the existence of this forum where I could see that I was not alone and I could get information that I trusted. If JMG had refused to discuss it, as he did at first, I don't know what would have happened to me. Certainly nothing good.

Fortunately, I didn't lose my job, and I didn't quit out of fear of losing my job. They still haven't lifted the mandate, they're just "not enforcing it", which is not reassuring, but we take it day by day. If nothing else this has been a very eye-opening and life-changing experience to live through.

-Slink