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John Michael Greer ([personal profile] ecosophia) wrote2023-11-21 12:03 pm

Open (More or Less) Post on Covid 120

gollum governmentWe 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.

(Anonymous) 2023-11-21 08:13 pm (UTC)(link)
It's only November and almost everyone seems to have already had covid once this winter. I wonder how many times on average people will have had covid by the time the winter is over.
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[personal profile] mr_nobody1967 2023-11-22 10:56 am (UTC)(link)
I am getting over a cold that I think may be Covid. I haven't tested myself (I'm saving the ten-dollar-a-pop test I have in my possession for going home for the holidays), but this cold is behaving pretty much the same way as the Covid-cold I got last year around this time and verified with a home-test. The differences are, I didn't run a temperature this time, and the post-illness phlegminess in my lungs and sinuses are unusually persistent.

(Anonymous) 2023-11-23 01:14 pm (UTC)(link)
I'm seeing (living) this also:

"he post-illness phlegminess in my lungs and sinuses are unusually persistent."


~Wolf

[personal profile] slinky_weasel 2023-11-23 06:11 pm (UTC)(link)
Yep. I caught it too. I rarely get the slightest bit sick (last cold was in 2019, and before that 2006), so this latest one's got game. Symptoms have been really mild (just a bit of a runny nose and a cough), but it just won't go away. It's been two weeks now! Again, the symptoms are mild, so it's more of a curiosity than a burden, but it is remarkable.

(Anonymous) 2023-11-25 08:12 pm (UTC)(link)
Same here and just when I thought it was gone it came back. It’s going away again but I’m wary if it will stay away.

[personal profile] slinky_weasel 2023-11-28 09:08 pm (UTC)(link)
I am all better now, since Saturday. Fingers crossed.

(Anonymous) 2023-11-22 06:29 pm (UTC)(link)
I wonder what repeat infections will do to people’s health. It surely can’t be good to catch a respiratory virus repeatedly, but I don’t know if anyone knows how it’ll play out….

(Anonymous) 2023-11-22 08:53 pm (UTC)(link)
Repeated infections cause immune depletion if the body does not get enough time to recover.

It has also been found that covid cause brain damage. We will probably see (we are already seeing) a decline in peoples cognitive capacity in the future and a dramatic increase in the number of people with dementia.