Open (More or Less) Post on Covid 104
Aug. 1st, 2023 01:13 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
ecosophia
As we wrap up 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.
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Date: 2023-08-02 02:52 am (UTC)My family and I are at the point where we know how to treat mostly everything. We don't have to run to the doctor except for intractable stuff that we can't figure out. In the case of my son's interminable nosebleeds, for example. Yes we can stop them when they happen, and we can get some control by putting vaseline in his nose every 4 hours, but that's unreasonable. Turns out there is an OTC saline nose gel (not spray) that you only need to use once or twice a day for this. Took a primary visit, a referral, and a visit to the ENT, to learn that tidbit.
Certainly avail yourself of the help of modern medicine but work to become self-sufficient, is my philosophy. If you do go to the doctor try to learn something on your own about what's going on with you beforehand so you can at least know what to ask about, or recognize if the doctor is completely off the reservation.
The most COVID-y thing I deal with right now are questionnaires during well-child checkups asking about fainting and seizures while exercising. They know why they are asking, I know why they are asking, we just don't talk about it!
I will also point out if you have children, not taking them to the doctor because you don't trust modern medicine or something like that could expose you to medical neglect charges. Take them in but just pay attention and ask questions.
with due respect
Date: 2023-08-02 08:45 pm (UTC)No cure, as in, permanent remission of symptoms???
Talk about illness management.
Re: with due respect
Date: 2023-08-02 10:15 pm (UTC)Try going to a doc for migraine: they have nothing to say about causes, what a migraine even *is*, no cures, and the treatments are all semi-effective at best, and have side-effects that may be worse than the disease.
Re: with due respect
Date: 2023-08-04 05:20 am (UTC)To be fair, there are circumstances where doctors can really help. But there are also a lot of circumstances where they don't know what the problem is and/or can't do anything about it. It's important to be able to recognize which problems are which. You have to do that yourself because, unfortunately, most doctors will happily take your money either way.
nosebleeds
Date: 2023-08-02 10:07 pm (UTC)I never did find anything that helped with it, though. Tried nasal steroids at one point, and found that while they seemed to maybe help a little... they *caused* nosebleeds if I forgot even one dose. And I was very forgetful.
Yarrow is the traditional remedy for external bleeding. I've always wanted to try it for nosebleed, or see if anybody else has, and what results they got. But I've never had the stuff around when it happened, and in the end, age seems to have cured the problem, more or less. Has anybody else tried it?
Re: nosebleeds
Date: 2023-08-06 08:58 pm (UTC)shewhoholdstensions