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

Re: Masking as an informed, individual choice

[(Anonymous)]

This egregious misunderstanding about masks is the kind of thing that happens when a 'scientific' conclusion is drawn from the evidence without a thorough investigation of the underlying facts. The practice of mask wearing by medical staff during surgery in particular and care of the ill in general in clinical settings does indeed reduce the rate of infection - but nobody who studied it ever really investigated how or why this happens; they all just take it on faith that the mask acts as a filter to stop the germs. Recent very simple testing demonstrates that aerosol sprays, cigarette smoke, moisture droplets, and a host of other contaminants all far larger and easier to trap than a virus or bacterium all penetrate these masks. The masks cannot filter out the infectious agents from the wearer's breath, yet somehow they do indeed reduce the rate of infection during surgery. Why?

Most people have an unsanitary habit so deeply ingrained in them from childhood that they do not even observe themselves doing it. How many of you can read a newspaper, count money, or open a paper or plastic bag without first licking your finger? Try it sometime. The surgeon's point of contact with the patient's open wounds is the tip of his finger; the germs are harbored inside his mouth. The mask keeps the fingertips out of the mouth. Mask-wearing in any other context is pure hogwash.

Re: Masking as an informed, individual choice

[escorcher]

Well that's a good start then, I'm forever chewing my nails and fingers.
I also guess you'd give me plenty of space if I was wearing one, crazed fool that I am. That'd probably help too, especially as I've set a few of them lateral flow test things off this week. And something's now run off with half my sense of smell, which is annoying.