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

[(Anonymous)]

There was something dodgy about those blue masks. I had to wear them for some hospital appointments in 2021/2022 and got weird raised spots behind my ears, on and below my nose and on my cheeks and lips. They took ages to go away and it was only colloidal silver that really removed them in the end, after 6+ months of treatment. This was from maybe 8 hospital visits? Fortunately, my work allowed us to use our own masks, and only when not sat at our desks, so I had a super-thin cotton one my wife made me. The hospital workers though? They had to wear them every single day, on top of the jabberoonies.

I have noticed quite a few colleagues with nasty face rashes that won't heal even now though, and we've not had to wear masks in over 2 years. I remember the media calling it "mascne" (clumsy portmanteau of mask and acne), as though your whole face breaking out in a rash is a perfectly normal thing to happen.

I also live in an English university town, for reference - though probably not such a famous one!

[(Anonymous)]

There's always been something dodgy about those blue masks. Specifically, they're full of chemicals that can cause irritation, and some people are more allergic than others and some masks are worse than others.

My mother was a nurse. I remember how when they switched brands of masks one time, she got severe "macne" (mask acne). As I recall, she and some other employees had to buy their own masks in a different brand until they convinced the hospital to switch back, because more people than usual were having reactions to the masks. And remember that people experiencing skin reactions were also breathing through those things and inhaling who knows what. Masks have always had issues.

While I think masks have a limited place in certain settings - there is definitely something to be said for keeping spit out of open wounds during surgery - they are not risk free. Imposing them on the general public, as well as on medical personnel in non-surgical settings, was not only pointless, but also came with health consequences.

[(Anonymous)]

They probably have the same stuff as bandaids.