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)

[(Anonymous)]

Many thanks for starting this thread-- it's good to recall what a long strange trip it's been for so many of us.

Initially, I was certain that nothing that no new drug, using such a novel technology, could claim safety. On general principle, I don't trust new drugs, and "wait and see" seemed the only wise choice. As the propaganda campaign ramped up to take the shots, I bristled. I long ago traveled and studied in the USSR, so I think that gave me a much better nose for propaganda than many people, and I dug in my heels more, despite not having any real specifics. Listening to Malone and Kirsch on Rogan's podcast was a revelation, as was running across Geert Van den Bossche's early aricles. I had specifics to hang my instincts on now.

I now knew firmly that I could not consent to the pressure. I risked my job at a place under high pressure to vax all staff, and applied for a religious exemption in the fall of 2021. It was granted, which still surprises me, but I did submit some supporting attestations from some members of my Quaker meeting affirming that my objections seemed a genuine "leading" in Quaker-speak. But I was ready to lose my job over it, and this community helped me greatly in staying true to a deep sense of what was right. As I posted here years ago now, I would awake in the middle of the night and notice how many disparate currents in my eccentric life had converged to this single point. I had to say, "No."

I had once instance of a seductive little voice in the middle of the night-- "Oh, just take the shot, it'll be easier, and you won't be harmed." My conscience immediately answered: "NO!" (or perhaps it was my innate stubborness.) Another time, I awoke in the middle of the night and realized what a twisty, conventionally unsuccessful path my life had taken. Another voice jumped in, reassuringly, "Well, you are eccentric. And that's an accomplishment!" I have had some success in maintaining a connection with that entity, whom I believe to be Theotokos (I got her name from someone posting here months ago, and it seems to fit.)

When my Quaker meeting established a "separate but equal" worship policy for the unvaccinated (me!) I ultimately realized that these were not the people I thought I knew, and I have stopped participating. No doubt there is some work for me to do here on forgiveness, but I'm sure that my break is more than just sour grapes. They were not who they claimed when it counted. I've started an association with an esoteric order JMG mentioned here, and on almost all days I do at least a mediation and some prayer. I am exploring unconventional spiritual paths-- independent sacramental movement, polytheism, Rosicrucianism, divination. All of it drives home that I live far too much in my head, but also that the world is filled with magic. What a time to witness, to make some small change in, and simply to be alive.

The people here have been my single biggest support for three years. Thanks to you all.