ecosophia | Open (More or Less) Post on Covid 115

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.

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I find it way more scary to lose mental clarity and judgement so I've been using it as an experience on moving the emotional and mental muscles to pull them back towards where I want them to be, not where the current is pulling.

I shouldn't feel silly here of all places saying this, but spirituality or magic or whatever really, really, really does pull you out of the stronger parts of the current and then have you wondering why where you thinking this or that at all. So the trick to me is not how to combat the feelings of fear and solve what the fear is telling me to be afraid of, but of recognizing the stimulus, it's origin and it's motives. So by you choosing to sidestep out of the lockstep march to raise the head above the crowd and peek wherever an opening comes through a distance comes; but within it there isn't much that I find useful to do besides recognizing my emotional state and letting it settle until the next opportunity for clarity opens up.

I second the recommendation to spirituality or magic.

If you can find what in the depths of your soul cries out to the heights of the divine, find a humble daily practice to build a connection with that divine, and hold fast, you will triumph. This has been working for me.

"In the fell clutch of circumstance
I have not winced nor cried aloud.
Under the bludgeonings of chance
My head is bloody, but unbowed."

(verses from 'Invictus' by William Ernest Henley)

-Dylan

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