Open (More or Less) Post on Covid 191

[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; public health authorities government shills for the pharmaceutical industry are still trying to push through laws that will allow them to force vaccinations on anyone they want; public trust in science is collapsing; and the story continues to unfold.

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. 

6. Please don't just post bare links without explanation. A sentence or two telling readers what's on the other side of the link is a reasonable courtesy, and if you don't include it, your attempted post will be deleted.

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. 

Comments

[weilong]

I was born without whatever it is that makes people cheer for sports teams. I went to the high school football games and that sort of thing, but I could never figure out why I was supposed to care what "our team" was doing.

The political teams never made sense to me, either. The analogy to a professional sporting event seems pretty clear to me: the owners and the players are raking in the money, because we are all paying too much for lousy hot dogs. Apparently a lot of people think it's fun.

[baconrolypoly]

"I was born without whatever it is that makes people cheer for sports teams."

Same here. One time when someone mentioned a TV programme I said we didn't have a TV and hadn't done for decades and he looked shocked and said 'But what about the sport?!'. I shrugged and said 'What about it?'.

I remember being young and trying to figure out what it was that holds people together, the way people bond over sports or clothing fashions or handbags or what have you. I even tried to enjoy a football game because other people liked it but, hard as I tried to get it, nothing happened. Same with the covid mania, I never got that either.

By some miracle, in the 1980s, I met someone like me - waves at earthworm - and we sit comfortably and quietly on the edge of society.

[(Anonymous)]

I was born without whatever it is that makes people cheer for sports teams.

Me too.

My father would monopolize the TV when I was little to watch hockey games and he would drag me off to soccer stadiums and commercial hockey rinks too. I never told him but I found it boring -- I'd much rather have been reading a book or building something useful (a father/son activity I very much enjoyed).

I prefer cooperative ventures over competitive ones.

Caldathras

[earthworm_uk]

"- waves at earthworm -"

:)

"Th'ole wurlds queer 'cept fuh thee un me... un evun thee's a bit odd."

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Up-thread: "It's far more interesting and sane out on the fringes."

Hopefully observing from outside the black hole event horizon that seems to be attracting so many...

"I could never figure out why I was supposed to care what "our team" was doing"

The last 5 years have left me wondering what on earth 'team human' is up to - it is a strange business, like folks are picking directions at a big inflection point... very curious to see what happens next. Trying to maintain sanity in a world of increasing absurdity is no small matter.