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)

[temporaryreality]

In late 2019, my cat fell ill. Turned out to be diabetes caused by improperly prescribed thyroid meds (which admittedly, he did need at a different dose). Vet should've lowered the dose after the first month or so, but never did. He was within days of death (I'd just thought he was slowing down due to age - I was kind of an idiot and I regret that, but that's not the story here)... anyway, I was told he needed to be on insulin if I wanted to save him. I ended up reading a lot of scientific literature on feline endocrinology and when I reported my research findings to the vet (that the dosage had been too high, that diabetes is treatable with change to high protein diet, etc.), I was majorly gaslighted and told I was wrongety wrong wrong and the cat would be going into ketoacidosis if I didn't act as they told me to.

Obviously I fired the vet. We decided on hands off, no-drama, let the cat have his last days in peace. In the meantime, I dramatically reduced the thyroid meds and started him on a high protein diet (in spite of diabetes-caused kidney issues). He lived another three fantastic years.

That experience primed me to suspect medical experts a few months later when things went sideways in the human realm.

I kept looking at our county's "dashboard" and scanning the local paper for information which I could use to assess risk and all they would tell us was that x number of women in my age group had been infected and y number had died. There was never info about comorbidities or risk factors - and that just raised red flags for me.

My family did succumb to some of the propaganda. We didn't question masks because our previous years living in Asia had normalized their use and we thought they DID work. To my immense regret, I was unable to convince my two daughters to avoid the injections - both seem to be ok as of this point, and eventually the youngest woke up and is now on the same page I'm on. My husband managed to sidestep Germany's requirements for his work-required travel there and so the two of us remain uninjected.

When IM Doc at Naked Capitalism deconstructed the Pfizer study documents when they were first released, there were too many more red flags waving around - and then when it turned out that the control group was injected, I knew that this was not about "science."

I credit a lot of the information shared here and on the main blog for helping me keep a clear mental field by which to assess all the social and media stupidity and decide not to partake.

I appreciate hearing everyone else's story. I have a small social circle (more like a social dot - I mostly stay home) and didn't experience the full awfulness, so I don't think I had it nearly as hard as many of you. You have my respect.