Open (More or Less) Post on Covid 102
Jul. 18th, 2023 11:46 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
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.
Re: The Epiphany (A reflection thread on pandemic choices)
Date: 2023-07-19 03:34 am (UTC)In March 2020, my local newspaper (The Age in Melbourne) was pushing the "collective rights" idea. They published an article that argued the individual had no right to say what their rights were, and that it should be left up to a higher authority to decide. The comment sections on the COVID articles were full of people displaying hatred and contempt for the idea of individual freedom. The small number of commenters raising concerns about the lockdowns violating human rights were shouted down. There was one comment that literally said that people complaining about the lockdowns should just shut up and do what the government told them to. I now see that this messaging was paving the way for vaccine mandates.
In April 2020, the Australian media all of a sudden started running hate propaganda against anti vaxxers. At this point I already knew that there had never been a successful vaccine against any corona virus, and I had seen articles stating that it could take years for one to be developed. So I began to wonder what was going on. I could see that the ground was being prepared for something.
In May 2020, the first articles calling for mandatory vaccination appeared. They were nasty and totalitarian, and I found them offensive. And again, if there was no vaccine in sight, why these articles?
In June 2020, after reading yet another article supporting mandatory vaccination, I made the decision that there was no way I would be taking any COVID Vax. My reasoning was this: if you have these authoritarians who say that the individual doesn't deserve to have any rights, and then they say you should be required to take injections whenever the government tells you to, then you should do anything you can NOT to take these injections.
- RL
Re: The Epiphany (A reflection thread on pandemic choices)
Date: 2023-07-20 02:47 am (UTC)Re: The Epiphany (A reflection thread on pandemic choices)
Date: 2023-07-21 05:12 am (UTC)- CB