Open (More or Less) Post on Covid 104

[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.

Comments

Re: Unfiltered search engines?

[(Anonymous)]

Never forget the big search engines make their money by using and selling their users' data. Silicon Valley got its ultra big money start post WW2 with Dept of Defense cash with ultra-secret contracts to build guidance computers for rockets and missiles by using the new solid state chips printed on silicon wafers which can withstand the vibrations of launch and high atmospheric radiation. Then, those chips got used to control the satellites placed in orbit. Now much of the biggest money at companies like Apple, Facebook and Google comes from the same kind of super secret government and interlocking corporate contracts which fuel the current information control and electronic business wars.

I loved the early internet in the 1990's when it was still mostly used just in academe and government agencies. Overwhelmingly a non-profit service or infrastructure like interstate highways with no tolls. In the mid-1980's I'd used a private Silly Valley company's international email and file sharing system and DARPA's unclassified public portal designed for librarians. The only public search engines available at my graduate university in the early 1990's were from universities in Minnesota and Illinois. The Illinois one became Netscape. Watched the founders of Yahoo!, Google and Facebook fire up their companies, AOL in the D.C. area, and saw each founder essentially sell out to the highest bidders. For example, finding out a few years ago all of Facebook's servers were run by a retired (wink) US Navy "admiral" was interesting. It's a rare online services company leader who will not sell their soul for cash if the price is right convinced they are doing the "patriotic" thing but really just to make their bank accounts bigger at the end of the day.

W.R.