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

Re: Definition of pandemic

[(Anonymous)]

I was just thinking about something along these lines this morning, while I was making the bed. About severity of illness, in my case.

When I was in elementary school, a really bad flu went through the school, and I was one of the kids who got it. I remember being REALLY sick - I had a high fever and missed a whole week of school, laying in bed for most of it, and some kids missed more. I had post-viral bronchitis for I want to say at least two more weeks, and so did some other kids. Whatever it was, a lot of us were really sick, and I remember coughing and sitting out of gym for another two weeks after. But....nobody really worried to much. These things happened.

When I was a young adult, I got some sort of awful flu-like illness, but it was extra-wretched, because it was a bad flu plus a bad stomach bug. I remember feeling incredibly sick, and being so weak that I was barely able to navigate from my bed to the bathroom in my small apartment. A lot of other people, including co-workers and family, reported having the same wretched bug, and we thought it might have been norovirus. But, life went on. People shared stories of how awful the Flu From Hell had been, and that was it. These things happened.

Fast forward to 2021, when I got Cooties-19, and spent a few days on the couch, drinking honey-lemon tea and working from home with a mild flu-like illness. It was, in the lifetime of viral experiences I'd had, relatively nothing. Sure, it was a little weird in the way the symptoms progressed, and not being able to taste or smell anything for the better part of two weeks was darn annoying, but all in all, I was less sick with the Horrible Dread Plague That Shut Down The World than I had been with other viral crap in the past. And yet, this was the bug that everyone lost their ever-loving minds about.

It's all just so, so strange.