Open (More or Less) Post on Covid 145

[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: Astral weather

[(Anonymous)]

Hi, I've participated in these "astral weather" convos once or twice, so I'll chime in. First a brief recap for context : to me it was from spring 2021 to spring '22 that the world had become putrid like never before. I held on for the rest of '22 and it was finally in 2023 that I felt the air clearing some. I'd agree that sometime a few months ago I thought I felt a burst of ye olde mephitic miasma from the pandemic, but fortunately it didn't last, or didn't stick. So where we at now?! Firstly, I'd also agree with the mentioned sense of foreboding. Secondly, the other element in my neck of the woods (that'd be France), is fatigue, tiredness in the mental area. People and events make less sense, things generally feel more adrift. Strange days, but not altogether suffocating.

Re: Astral weather

[(Anonymous)]

I have nothing to add to this conversation other than surprise that there is another English speaker here residing in France. A greeting from sunny Aveyron to a fellow Anglophone abroad.

Re: Astral weather

[(Anonymous)]

I'm not a foreigner living in FR, if that's what you imply ? Born-and-bred French, here. At any rate, cheers back to you from drizzly Finistère!

Re: Astral weather

[(Anonymous)]

I have God-family in Finistère, beautiful scenery and lots of happy memories. All the best.

Re: Astral weather

[(Anonymous)]

Ah, it was my implication, based on your excellent English. That's so rare that I've taken to asking people who sound French and speak good English if they are in fact Belgian, as so few French people speak English well. Perhaps that's partly due to the fact that I'm in a very rural part of France.

(A joke that a fellow foreigner here told me; what do you call someone who speaks 2 languages? Bilingual. 3 languages? Trilingual. 1 language? French!!)

Re: Astral weather

[(Anonymous)]

I've heard the same joke made with "American" as the punchline.

Re: Astral weather

[scotlyn]

If I may chime in here with a data point... I worked for a while as a ship's agent in a fishing port on the northwest coast of Ireland... I could speak Spanish, and one of my co-workers spoke French. It turned out these were the only extra languages needed in our business, as the only inlanding fishermen/merchantmarines who never seemed able to speak English as a second language, and that rather well, were the Spanish and the French. The Portuguese, the Dutch, the Belgians, the various African crews, the Norwegians and Swedes, the Germans and the Danish fishermen were all fit to carry out a conversation in English.

Re: Astral weather

[(Anonymous)]

my joke was in rather poor taste, as our French but English speaking poster's English really is excellent. Neck of the woods, for example, is very idiomatic and used perfectly. i'm an English teacher living in France so i get to see a reasonable overview of the general level of English here, and at least here in tbe rural south, it's terrible. this makes me laugh a bit as the British generally bemoan their foreign language skills, but i've come to the opinion over a few years here that the average British level of French is actually better than the average French person's level of English.

anyway, kudos to our exception to that rule and i'll try not to get startedon the pointlessness of gendered nouns, constant conjugation and silent letters in almost every word that make French such a joy to learn. and yes i know i have a rather ee cummings approach to written English here.