Open (More or Less) Post on Covid 128

[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)]

a small side note that literally everyone i've spoken to about their christmas holidays told me that at least 2 family members were sick over the holidays, my own (unvexxed) family included. none want to link their sickness to covid, of course.

the trend does seem to be towards ever-increasing sickness, so here's a fun term i thought of today to more accurately describe what seems to be happening: covaids, rather than covid.

Same here

[(Anonymous)]

A social group I belong to met recently and 3 out of the 7 people there described how they had to navigate or not participate in Christmas plans because multiple people in their family group were sick. They all admitted it was Covid (and had the test results to prove it!). Same phenomenon at work, except there, I would say half the people I talked to were sick over the holidays. Some admitted to Covid, some said "flu" or "sick." As far as I can tell, every one of them is vaccinated. I am not, and I don't say anything, because saying what I want to say, i.e., "How is that vaccine working out for you?" would be non-productive. They all know they were duped, but can't admit it.

All that said, my immediate family, which is two unjabbed and one J&J survivor, all got some kind of sinus thing two weeks ago. As in two weeks of stuffy ears and nose, sinus headaches, body aches, and tiredness. It was probably whatever the new version of Covid is, but I don't do any tests. I did take some aspirin and lots of the usual vitamins. Also, chicken soup. We are all better now. I used to never get sick and so this is new. Given the new threat landscape, maybe I should up my vitamin D & K....hmmmm

Re: Same here

[(Anonymous)]

Over the holidays, the one in the family who got sick with whatever-he-didn't-test-for-because-covid's-over has had 5 covid jabs. He attended family festivities while wearing a black mask.