Open (More or Less) Post on Covid 167
Oct. 15th, 2024 10:25 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
ecosophia
We are now in the fourth year of these open posts. When I first posted a tentative hypothesis on the course of the Covid phenomenon, I had no idea that discussion on the subject would still be necessary more than three years later, much less that it would turn into so lively, complex, and troubling a conversation. Still, here we are. Crude death rates and other measures of collapsing public health are anomalously high in many countries, but nobody in authority wants to talk about the inadequately tested experimental Covid injections that are the most likely cause; 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 and its government enablers are causing injury and death on a massive scale. 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 wholly owned 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 plan on making off topic comments, please go away. This is an open post for discussion of the Covid epidemic, the vaccines, drugs, policies, and other measures that supposedly treat it, and other topics directly relevant to those things. It is not a place for general discussion of unrelated topics. Nor is it a place to ask for medical advice; giving such advice, unless you're a licensed health care provider, legally counts as practicing medicine without a license and is a crime in the US. Don't even go there.
5. 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.
Please also note that nothing posted here should be construed as medical advice, which neither I nor the commentariat (excepting those who are licensed medical providers) are qualified to give. Please take your medical questions to the licensed professional provider of your choice.
With that said, the floor is open for discussion.
Re: Mask Mandates Have Returned
Date: 2024-10-17 07:52 am (UTC)I heard from other women that putting on a mask gave them a level of anonymity that they found to be relieving. In a world where many middle-aged women feel they have demands from all sides to be caring, from their elders, children and grandchildren and beyond, it gets very tiring so putting on a mask is a message to the world that we're not interacting today, thank you very much.
Re: Mask Mandates Have Returned
Date: 2024-10-17 05:34 pm (UTC)Re: Mask Mandates Have Returned
Date: 2024-10-20 10:02 pm (UTC)Re: Mask Mandates Have Returned
Date: 2024-10-17 11:12 pm (UTC)No I'm not reporting live from Kabul.
Re: Mask Mandates Have Returned
Date: 2024-10-18 08:47 am (UTC)In the first case false but fear has been used to over-ride rational thinking and bring about a mind state agreeable for the madness of crowds.
In the second instance false but by projecting the fault onto women and controlling their behaviour allows men to continue in poor behaviour while thinking that they are better than women and carrying on with said bad behaviour at any opportunity.
Yet both the behaviours allow one group to try and control the behaviour of others, behave like bullies and feel good about themselves.
In the case of the covidians, this went to the extreme beyond threatening livelihood by firing to calling for locking up and denying medical care to those who did not comply with the edicts - the most extreme case I saw was from preppers who had been getting ready to fight the zombie-apocalypse who flipped in what seemed like a moment to become frothing zombies themselves and calling for 'the unclean' to be, and I quote, 'locked in basements in the dark to die gasping'.
Altogether disagreable on all counts.
I am reminded of the words of Paul Brunton:
"To meet the assaults of vicious human beasts with sympathetic nonviolence in the optimistic belief that this attitude is not only morally correct but may also change the attacker's character, is to deceive oneself."
Perhaps in the future Mr. Greer might consider a post on Navigating the Madness of Humanity and Avoiding Getting Burnt at the Stake.
The traditional way was to head up into the mountains... we're sorely short of places to go these days!