Open (More or Less) Post on Covid 128
Jan. 16th, 2024 10:00 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
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.
Re This Week's Meme
Date: 2024-01-17 04:07 am (UTC)All I could find online was:
- At least one coronavirus patient recovered after a long battle and they danced for that person,
- They danced to lift the spirits of their patients in general
- Many patients canceled cancer appointments themselves out of terror of the coronavirus (not entirely unfounded, actually)
Not that many members of the medical profession weren't badly behaved, but I want to make sure this particular meme is really true before I fire off my hoplegs jumping to conclusions.
Thanks,
- Cicada Grove
Re: Re This Week's Meme
Date: 2024-01-17 12:57 pm (UTC)Re: Re This Week's Meme
Date: 2024-01-17 02:27 pm (UTC)Re: Re This Week's Meme
Date: 2024-01-17 02:58 pm (UTC)"Remember when there was a plague so "deadly" that cancer appointments and other important medical appointments were cancelled because the hospitals were going to be "overwhelmed" with plague patients, and then doctors and nurses had so little to do that they spent time choreographing, rehearsing, and performing stupid dance routines?"
Re: Re This Week's Meme
Date: 2024-01-17 03:20 pm (UTC)Now "dancing nurses" wasn't exactly rare. If you're too old for TikTok, then you might have missed the huge trend of it in 2020. Why then, all of a sudden, were nurses and doctors at hospitals able to choreograph dance routines? Because make no mistake-- this wasn't spontaneous. These were choreographed routines.
Do you think nursing is an underworked and carefree profession, where people have lots of time to practice dances during their shifts? In 2019 you would have a snowball's chance of getting medical professionals to do this. They would have had no time or energy for such tomfoolery. None, zero. They were all too busy doing medicine.
Cue 2020, and to 'save the hospitals' which were being 'overwhelmed with COVID' all nonessential treatments were cancelled -- and all of a sudden, doctors and nurses have time to dance, dance, dance. Cancer treatments were amongst those things deemed "nonessential" in many places*.
So, yes, they were dancing because cancer treatments had been cancelled. The causal link is clear. If cancer treatments had been ongoing, they wouldn't have had time to practice the gosh-darned dances..
*According to this, 54% of Canadian cancer patients had their care disrupted due to COVID. https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lanonc/article/PIIS1470-2045(20)30397-1/fulltext
Re: Re This Week's Meme
Date: 2024-01-18 01:37 am (UTC)Not really. They got time to dance, because they had no patient. Check Steve Kirsch's recent interview of a nurse from Kaiser. She mentioned that the hospitals were so empty that many of her shifts got canceled.
Speaking of dances, here is a video from April 2020 -
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EMHU6MtPVqQ
another one from April 2020 -
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r5--0EFmI2w
another one -
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DC493Ht0AiM
another one -
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kl4dNCq50g4
How is it possible that they were all from April 2020 and none from 2019 (or insert year)?
Re: Re This Week's Meme
Date: 2024-01-18 03:28 am (UTC)