Open (More or Less) Post on Covid 156

[ecosophia]

This post concludes 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: erika update

[(Anonymous)]

Don't feel weak that you took the offer to stay.

WOW, rq, that's amazing that you'd picked up on my immense SHAME because i had to re-read as i didn't think i'd been open about my shame here. but yes! you picked up on it because it's immense for me: i feel like a warrior dying not on his feet, but in a hospital all plugged in with lots of numbing drugs. (smile)

i've been sobbing all day and depressed about my need to "take it." the thing that got me is that if i lost, which could've been likely even if i had a sympathetic jury, they might be directed to rule on a narrow list of perimeters and i could be forced to move within TWO WEEKS. maybe three if i was lucky.

it'd take me years to come back from that kind of set back, if i could come back at all. i'm pretty burnt out. it's like running a marathon on your own bloody stumps and being told you've got ten feet but it's ten hundred MILES left. i'm shocked i've taken as much as i have when so little rocks these folks' worlds, but i'm also very much still affected by it. i'm not free.

(yet.)

i believe i will be free and even forget their names one day because that's where i try to get to.

but shame... yes... you felt it. i was all sewn up. see, this stuff that happened to Trump isn't an anomaly. their rules change depending on who they pick and who called in as victim first. then you're in your rigid villain role. you men know this. who am i telling? but the rules seem rigid but are slanted towards the type of people who see and think their way.

we don't have a shot unless we coddle our victimhood and groom it into a bitter monster.

there's a code and i can't code switch "bougie colored girl." it's a weird mixture of humility but it's pretentious because you're winking that you're EQUAL. colored women do it with each other. it's the damndest thing. it's not as subtle as other code switching. you have to slant how you proudly say "your honor" and so many of the judges are women.

it's all emotions. with everyone. men/women included. they're run by their emotions even though they pretend to speak logically. and there's a definite hierarchy but you know you could be there, too. it's "All About Eve" in Hollytown but in gov't and academic jobs.

you're right i can plan and i AM. that was funny about turning into a pillar of salt.

and yes, it is like a stay of execution, because surviving out there on market rent not knowing what to do... EEEK!

but i also feel FREE. free to LEAVE... when i want. i like that i can take off and leave everything behind as long as i pay the rent.

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and yes... a lot CAN happen while i'm teaching the horse to sing. that's perfect. i love fairy tales and found an old Kay Neilsen book of his art that got ruined in the garage and i ripped all the art aside and am looking at it like a newspaper with all the facts telling me what to do. i grew up on Kay Neilsen's art in those old Norse Faery Tales where the mothers are still eating their children to clear way for a new husband.

but yeah. the SHAME. i was ready to self immolate and get the kitties somewhere safe. thanks for saying i didn't punk out when i didn't even know to ask that of anyone.

x

erika