Open (More or Less) Post on Covid 153

[ecosophia]

We are now winding up 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

Where is the virus steering us?

[(Anonymous)]

The first comment raises a question that I have been chewing in my mind for quite a while - the continuing sickness among all, jabbed or not. My personal experience of needing recovery time, especially after spending time with multiple-jabbed elderly (well past 70) relatives keeps this question alive. I like the hypothesis our thrice-great host proposed, too. But later on in the comments the other side of the question came up in the ponderings about astrological chart for the virus. Because the other side of the question is what change the current reality of living with the virus/viruses/ailments is causing? These are my observations: 1)Social interaction is expensive health-wise. 2)I miss the social interaction very much, so cannot become a hermit. 3)The more uplifting the social interaction is (choir practice, yoga, like-minded people) the less expensive or taxing the after-effects. 4)I have always been somewhat over-sensitive/intuitive but I notice others are showing signs of similar sensitivity. 5)Lots of people are working through heavy personal&ancestral trauma and evaluating their values and life-choices. Hookers and blow is going down, spirituality going up. Sportspeople waving a bible, even in Finland. 6) Friendships are in a tremendous flux. People who I've considered like-minded have become intolerable to me, others more distant have grown closer. I still do not know how the constellations of close friendships are going to change. Of course they are always changing, but we humans like some permanence. This seems not be available now. This is one of the reasons the lighthouse our host is keeping is of such great value. But giving up and letting go has been a big and really difficult lesson for me, and still working on it. So, we have a multitude of developments on different fronts, not only deteriorating health. Oh, a side effect of deteriorating health is 7)Taking the health of the body seriously - starting to direct what one is putting in one's mouth by what the body needs instead of what the mouth wants. Away from the Venusberg of pleasure and addiction.

So, I am being more bold here than I'd really care to be, but this is my hypothesis about the virus and what it is doing: This new current in our reality is tuning us, present-day human beings, to experience reality in a different way than before. We are becoming more attuned (or sensitive) to everything. The food we put in our mouths. The stuff we watch/read. How we resonate with other people. The vibes of harmony and dissonance are becoming tangible, felt experiences. As we attune to these vibes more, they also become ways to orient and steer our lives. And part of this is having our own earlier life-choices and values rubbed onto our faces hard enough that we see how we have failed supporting ourselves and others to be more of our genuine selves. A re-tuning of the musical instrument of human body, to harmonise with a new scale and hopefully learning to play different kind of music.
Kristiina

Re: Where is the virus steering us?

[(Anonymous)]

Very interesting. Well worth reading and thank you for the time you put into writing this.

Re: Where is the virus steering us?

[quoadsacra]

"Friendships are in a tremendous flux." This phrase has stuck in my mind over the weekend. Amen to that.

Friendships dissolving into thin air, grudges, general lack of goodwill or being prepared to give the benefit of the doubt. I am in my 50s and am not, admittedly, ever likely to be a candidate for canonisation. I've had my fair share of friendships ending over the years either through 'natural wastage' or falling out. But the last five or six years have been off the charts. Is it my age or is it *the age* ? Or maybe a bit of both...

Again, maybe this is due to *my* age rather than *the age* but making new friends these days is also very hard. There have been a few promising starts only for them to end up going south. I have discovered that it hasn't automatically followed that people who share my covidian dissident views are people I could establish friendships with. Sadly I haven't found a new "tribe". I am very lucky however that three of my closest friends also chose, independently of me, to refuse the 'intervention'. So I did not go it quite alone.

As for the rest of my close friends and relatives, I am trying where possible to repair relations with them. Their compliance and complacence (in my view) disappointed me. I know I have resentments and I am trying to let go of them. I cannot complain about unforgiving times without at least trying to find some forgiveness in my heart also.

But I am no longer actively working to maintain links with many wider acquaintances with whom I no longer feel I have anything common. It just no longer seems like a good investment of my time (if it ever was) and I note that they are not reaching out to me either!

Anyway, thank you for your thoughts. You are definitely not alone navigating the flux!