Open (More or Less) Post on Covid 193

[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

[(Anonymous)]

I think this relates to the covid jabs— orthogonally, anyway. RFK's speech today on C-span about autism is major:

https://informedchoice.substack.com/p/secretary-kennedy-has-just-busted

(that's a link to the approx 10 minute-long clip of the C-span video via Australian medical freedom activist Meryl Dorey's substack)

So the autisim epidemic is real. It's horrific. It's not an artifact of better reporting, as RFK makes clear. I doubt that the legacy media will report much of this straight, if at all. But too many people have autistic children, and most of the rest of us don't have seen the increasing prevalance of autisim up close. This elephant of a story hasn't got any place to hide.

Don't think it was the Froot Loops.

[(Anonymous)]

anecdotally, my wife teaches teenagers; she's noticed that each new year seems to be getting worse. her youngest class consists of kids where about half have some form of dys-something. i would guess that the reported figures for kids damaged by vaccines greatly under-reports the reality.

[(Anonymous)]

This is not new, though prolonged lockdown exacerbated it. Before the pandemic, a quarter of all American teenage girls got put on psych meds, and a quarter of all boys were labeled ADHD by age 17. There's a combination of (a) real increase in problems from environmental toxin exposures; (b) real increase in problems from suffocating bubble-wrap parenting [problems caused by a lifetime of screen staring fall into both of these]; and (c) the medical establishment's labeling every minor who has unpleasant feelings or resists doing what he/she is told as a lifelong mental defective.

Oh, and in the "dys" category, "dyslexia" doubles when schools fashionably refuse to use phonics, since it turns out that most kids who haven't learned to read before age 6 never will learn to read fluently if taught by idiotic whole-language methods. I think it fair to surmise that a fair fraction of "dyscalculia" could be due to sh***y math teaching methods as well. I have a relative whose family home-schooled their kids and while this left them obviously deficient in some ways (they were trained to believe that the earth was 6000 years old), the kid who had been labeled dyslexic was able to use a special brain-retraining course that left her able to read easily. On balance I thought that was a plus; if she ever develops the desire to read something that isn't the bible, at least she'll be able to.