Open (More or Less) Post on Covid 134

[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: When would you comply?

[(Anonymous)]

I will add another condition to the above, but first a little history:

When I was a medical resident, and later a Neuroscience Fellow, I performed independent medical research. Not a lot, but I was principle author of 2 papers that were published in peer-reviewed journals. In one of those projects, I developed patentable technology, and hired a patent attorney. A week later, I received a phone call from an official who was located in a VA (US Veterans Administration) administrative office in Wash. DC. He asked if I thought the work was patentable. Me: “yes”. Him: “Are you attempting to patent it?”*. Me: “yes”. Him: “Stop immediately. You are not permitted to do this”. He went on to describe how my residency and fellowship were VA funded, and that being the case, I did not have patent rights**.

Why do I go into this history? Well, a certain A. Fauci who was head of the CDC for years was named on a number of patents that are medical technology-related, and he received ample royalties amounting to tens if not hundreds of millions of $. Some of his patents related to the C19 virus or vex, and he received royalties while heading the CDC. So he not only doesn’t have to play by the rules we must play by, he had a brazen conflict of interest which did not preclude him from setting public health policy he had a financial stake in.

So my next proposed condition for vex mandates is: Regulatory officials who promulgate public health policy shall have no conflicts of interest.

—Lunar Apprentice

I suspected he already knew I trying to patent, and that sent chills down my spine. I didn’t know what penalties there might be for lying to a government Big Shot, and I wasn’t about to find out.

** There was contractual fine print too. Strictly speaking, I would have 25% rights to any patents, but only the VA could file for the patent, which they never did.