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John Michael Greer ([personal profile] ecosophia) wrote2023-09-12 12:47 pm

Open (More or Less) Post on Covid 110

how to stop itWe are now in the third year of these open posts. As the phrase "died suddenly" repeats in the mass media like a mantra, statistics for work days lost to illness and all-cause mortality mount up in heavily vaccinated nations, and more and more ugly facts about the official response to Covid spill out into public, we are entering what may well turn out to be the most difficult period of the Covid disaster -- the phase in which denial rises in lockstep with the death rate, and a great many people try not to admit what has been done to them by the people and institutions they trusted. It could get ugly, folks.

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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Re: Ahem

[personal profile] thinking_turtle 2023-09-13 07:29 pm (UTC)(link)

"Not-war" seems to be the right term! Indeed Russia never declared war, but is calling this a "Special Military Operation".

Re: Ahem

(Anonymous) 2023-09-14 05:48 am (UTC)(link)
"Not-war" seems to be the right term!

Is not in term but also terms and actions. Russia and China go to great lengths to maintain the status quo and don't make the Western elite feel any kind of pain.

Why? Because the way things are going in US and Europe are so distructive for the West that Russia and China needs to maintain this as long as possible...

Re: Ahem

(Anonymous) 2023-09-14 07:44 am (UTC)(link)
"Not-war" seems to be the right term!

Is not in term but also terms and actions. Russia and China go to great lengths to maintain the status quo and don't make the Western elite feel any kind of pain.

Why? Because the way things are going in US and Europe are so distructive for the West that Russia and China needs to maintain this as long as possible...

Re: Ahem

(Anonymous) 2023-09-15 04:24 pm (UTC)(link)
America, (or rather the corporatist elite that runs it) is senile and demented, but still dangerous. Crazy, deluded, reckless and armed to the teeth.
"Handle With Care" is probably the guiding principle of the foreign policy for Russia and China as it should be for any other nation that has to deal with it.

Re: Ahem

(Anonymous) 2023-09-14 07:16 pm (UTC)(link)
'Not-war' in terms of not really fighting a war to win a war. Something else is going on. Something weird and strange. Duplicitous.

As Bobby Dylan once said, '
Al the criminals in their suits and their ties
are free to drink martinis and watch the sun rise...'