Open (More or Less) Post on Covid 127

[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: Death denial and euthanasia?

[deathcap]

You're my mom's age, and the extent to which she is willing to discuss the matter is as a justification for why she started smoking so many cigarettes: "I'm in my 70s, my mom and her mom both died of strokes in their mid 70s so I may as well enjoy my Winstons and cheeseburgers!". Very much a fatalistic worldview.

My stepdad on the other hand is a bit more accepting of the notion, though he's not thrilled about it. His request is simply "when I die, tell people what happened to me. I don't wanna be vague and make people have to guess".

My stepmom is the classic "middle age starts at 60, old age is a myth" denialist.

My dad died a year ago and was convinced that covid was gonna kill him and basically became a shut-in the last three years of his life. Ironically his heart started giving him major problems right after the covid shots and neither he nor my stepmom particularly wanted to make the connection. He also told everyone that his "heart issues" were "a weird pneumonia thing" which I only found out to be false after he died. Not the most honest fellow...