Open (More or Less) Post on Covid 139

[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: Theories?

[(Anonymous)]

The other thing I was forced to remember during the last few years was that a majority of people around me watch corporate news and actually believe that it's there to inform them. That's why they were so terrified.

If you live outside that bubble, it's easy to assume that more people understand that the purpose of mainstream news is to make money, and that the "news" is influenced by one, the need to attract viewers with exciting stories, two, the need to keep advertisement revenue flowing and the resulting pressures from advertisers, and three, the need to stay in the good graces of elected officials and other authorities in order to maintain "access" to sources. If you see the "news" and know that they will breathlessly exaggerate stories to make people watch, observe that over half of the TV ads during the commercial breaks are for pharmaceutical products, and know that reporters who say the wrong thing get banned from press conferences and other sources of info, you logically deduce which masters the "news" is serving, and don't take it too seriously. Especially not when it contradicts what you're seeing with your own eyes and discovering by "doing your own research" (which most of the time is really just "doing your own journalism").

But most people don't think that way (as I've discovered). Most people watch TV news, and read mainstream sources, and actually think that they are being informed rather than manipulated. Imagine how scared you would have been if, instead of trusting your own experience ("huh, almost nobody I know is dying of covid...) and looking at death statistics yourself ("hmm, these numbers say hardly anybody under 70 is dying, and most deaths are in long-term care facilities...") and reading alternative accounts (including whistleblowers) with an open mind, and putting these things together and concluding that the whole thing was hyped-up hysteria - instead of that, imagine actually believing what you saw on TV and in the NY Times! If you actually thought that the TV was telling you the truth, how could you NOT be terrified?

One of the things I had to re-learn during the cooties hysteria was how many people will trust an authoritative source over actual experience and even raw data. They truly believe the TV to be more trustworthy than reality. It really IS a kind of vulgar magic, when you think about it.

Re: Theories?

[slinky_weasel]

Sometimes I am a little jealous and wish I could live in that world of make believe. It's hard knowing what we know now, and seeing everyone lie about it. Not believing the MSM stories is, unfortunately, a lonely place.