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)

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: Your Government Loves You
Date: 2023-07-21 01:51 am (UTC)Re: Your Government Loves You
Date: 2023-07-21 03:40 pm (UTC)I actually clicked through to the article, and read it. The "healthy" child in question was obese, and, according to the text - but not the headline - of the article, probably had un-diagnosed diabetes, because he died when his blood sugar spiraled out of control and they couldn't get it fixed before it killed him. At best, he died of un-diagnosed metabolic disorder probably bought on by obesity, and exacerbated by a virus that wouldn't have killed a healthy anybody.
But the headline said "Healthy Child". Madness.
Re: Your Government Loves You
Date: 2023-07-21 04:56 pm (UTC)Re: Your Government Loves You
Date: 2023-07-21 08:13 pm (UTC)Or that respiratory viruses have always killed people who were already old and/or sick - and where by "killed" I mean "hastened the inevitable." The flu "kills" many such people every year.
At some point, we decided to ignore the difference between "virus slightly hastened the end of life like they've always done" and "virus struck down a healthy person like a car accident or bolt of lightening."
Re: Your Government Loves You
Date: 2023-07-21 10:23 pm (UTC)