Open (More or Less) Post on Covid 110

[ecosophia]

We 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.

Comments

[(Anonymous)]

Found this on DEnis Rancourt's website home page.

2021-08-02 ::: Open Letter to the Unvaccinated

Angela Durante, Denis Rancourt, Claus Rinner, Laurent Leduc, Donald Welsh, John Zwaagstra, Jan Vrbik, Valentina Capurri

You are not alone! As of 28 July 2021, 29% of Canadians have not received a COVID-19 vaccine, and an additional 14% have received one shot. In the US and in the European Union, less than half the population is fully vaccinated, and even in Israel, the “world’s lab” according to Pfizer, one third of people remain completely unvaccinated. Politicians and the media have taken a uniform view, scapegoating the unvaccinated for the troubles that have ensued after eighteen months of fearmongering and lockdowns. It’s time to set the record straight. [...]

[(Anonymous)]

"As of 28 July 2021, 29% of Canadians have not received a COVID-19 vaccine, and an additional 14% have received one shot."

In Australia, the claim is that 95% of the adult population received a vaccine. I think the government is lying about this. Given all the vile actions the various governments in Australia carried out during covid, I'd say that fabricating the vaccination rate isn't beyond them.

I saw a couple of signs that the vaccination rate might be lower than claimed.

There was a press conference earlier this year with the premier of Victoria, Dan Andrews, where he was really angry about the people who didn't take the vaccine. If you believe the official figures, there are only a couple of percent of the adult population in Vic who didn't take the vaccines, meaning that the government won an overwhelming victory. DA should be gloating over this, but instead he's angry. This indicates to me that DA knows the real numbers of unvaccinated are much higher than claimed.

About a year ago now, one of the major news sites ran a survey asking how many people took the vaccines and whether they regretted their decision. I realise the sample was probably biased, and the survey was heavily brigaded after a few hours. But in the first couple of hours the results were: 20% unvaccinated, 30% vaccinated but regretted it, 50% vaccinated with no regrets.

I find it interesting that this news site should even be asking these questions. Don't they believe the government figures? Do they know something they aren't telling us?

[(Anonymous)]

Those vaccine-uptake numbers have been so skewed and manipulated in so many ways that politicians no longer stand a chance of piecing together any accurately reliable data. There were just too many people along the way, each independently tweaking their own results to their own advantage, for anyone to be able to accurately reconstruct any undistorted facts out of the whole distorted mess.

Here in the US, once various non-profits figured out just how much money was sloshing around for anyone who could no-matter-how-implausibly proclaim that they could increase vaccine uptake, we were off to the races! They were promised so much loot per newly poisoned victim that it didn't take them long to begin offering somewhat-smaller cash payouts back towards anyone willing to get newly jabbed. In liberal blue cities, we had mobile vaxx clinics popping up anywhere that a non-profit could find to pitch their canopy tent. They would pay a minimal fee to some business in the commercial district to set up a clinic on their sidewalk, or to the parks commission to set up at a farmer's market. It was quite the business model for a while there — sort of like a whack-a-mole game, only played with vaxx clinics instead!

Since the neighborhood that I live in is known on parody review websites (far more honest than the so-called “legit" ones) as the "hipsters and heroin addicts" neighborhood (Good God, the worst of both worlds!), I have the distinct... um... ?pleasure?... of knowing many of our regular panhandling homeless addicts by name. Thus it was not at all hard to notice just how many times those addicts would show up at each and every local vaxx clinic that was offering anywhere from $20-$50 per jab. Being homeless, they would provide absolutely no ID, and, being liberal, those non-profits wouldn't ever dream of discriminating against their ID-less condition! A match made in heaven... or possibly somewhere a little hotter.

What on earth can one now do with any vaccination-uptake statistics provided by this lavishly incentivized distribution system, which was providing untrackable homeless addicts with the necessary funding to maintain their habit for another day? Effectively that meant one less trick to turn or unlocked car to pilfer, making for quite the paid incentive in all the better homeless encampments. Every time they got paid for getting jabbed, they got a reprieve from the daily grind — kind of a homeless holiday! And who can blame them? They had been used to having to pay to get jabbed by needles, and now someone wanted to pay them for getting jabbed, instead. Yahoo! If anyone can come up with an accurate model for recalibrating the warped statistics those mobile vaxx clinics added to the mix, we’ll be maybe one or two percent closer to figuring out real vaxx-uptake numbers.

Now, shall we begin discussing the insane cash payouts/bribes that were offered to doctors, insurers, and hospitals? But first, I suppose I really should ask... exactly how much time do you have?

— Christophe