Open (More or Less) Post on Covid 139
Apr. 2nd, 2024 09:38 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: When the going gets weird
Date: 2024-04-03 11:19 pm (UTC)And by the way-- I will say, though, that the first time I watched an AI video (witout knowing that it was an AI video) my strong impression was that the speaker was channeling an entity because it looked like a normal person, it sounded like a normal voice, but I perceived very clearly that there was something nonhuman about it. Then I found out that it was AI generated. I did not perceive an actual entity, however. If that makes sense.
Self-described Psychic Medium
Re: When the going gets weird
Date: 2024-04-04 01:08 pm (UTC)Re: When the going gets weird
Date: 2024-04-04 04:21 pm (UTC)The panic? It certainly got people to reduce social contact; it likely played a major role in reducing infections of all respiratory viruses.
The refusal of all early treatment? This kept people out of hospitals, where people vulnerable to the virus could be found.
The decimation of the elderly through a lack of medical care and social isolation? This kept them from getting infected.
The fact that the approved treatments once people were hospitalized were pretty much all horribly lethal? It allowed for the quick removal of the infect from the hospital before the infection could spread.
I could go on; but the point is that it looks to me a lot like the insanity from 2020 is exactly what I'd expect if a paperclip maximizer was turned on. Ignoring the hype, it would actually be fairly limited; but it would have immense abilities to manipulate some people, at least some of the time, because the tech companies have already worked out how to do this.
Re: When the going gets weird
Date: 2024-04-05 01:27 am (UTC)Entirely possible. I do wonder though about the 'good intentions' you assign.
Maybe I'm just cynical.
Re: When the going gets weird
Date: 2024-04-04 02:39 pm (UTC)Ron M
Re: When the going gets weird
Date: 2024-04-04 05:17 pm (UTC)JH
Re: When the going gets weird
Date: 2024-04-04 11:08 pm (UTC)In recent days it has often come into my mind how eerie, how very disturbing it is that a such a person, so important for so many people in Great Britain, would be presented to them under false pretenses.
I had an interesting conversation with a publisher recently; he was telling me that now the AI audbook readers are now so good that, in a formal test, people could not tell the difference between a human and AI. I have not listened to an AI reading a book myself, however, so I could not say if that difference would be apparent to me or not. But for now, with video, it seems I can tell.
I can sometimes also sense the AI energies behind a comment-- I haven't had feedback to confirm this, however. To me some simply feels just alien, cold, metallic.
To the topic of this forum: I'm seeing scatterings of such comments that I suspect are AI on blogs and substacks. But not so many as I had expected.
Self-described Psychic Medium