Open (More or Less) Post on Covid 147

[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

[boccaccio]

One thing that keeps surprising me is how vastly different the information between people is. The few times I engage with other people on these subjects, I have to spend an afwul amount of time explaining why I have a certain position simply because my 'facts' are vastly different than their 'facts'. We simply live in different worlds.

I don't see much of crazy energy in those talks as I avoid the ones who seem totally absorbed by their own viewpoints. The people I speak with usually just fall silent as they don't know where to begin to process the huge difference in what I see happening and what they see happening. I have no idea if the gap can be bridged. It seems we just have to let the maelstrom go wherever it wants and pick up the pieces afterwards.

My focus these days is on my spiritual practice. I can't help anyone with information, but can lead by example by having a constructive and compassionate attitude and let my inner light shine so the ones with the eyes to see can connect.

[(Anonymous)]

Boccaccio, I see the same. It is oftentimes very eerie to me.

My conclusion at present is that what will bridge the gap isn't going to be so much something I said-- although perhaps it could be-- but their willingness to start asking questions, rather than simply swallowing what they're told by the mainstream media. And that's up to them. Once a person starts asking questions, everything changes. And that's precisely why many people do not want to ask questions.

Cetiosaurus