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John Michael Greer ([personal profile] ecosophia) wrote2025-05-13 09:32 am

Open (More or Less) Post on Covid 197

smudge for the winWe 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. 

Thank you

(Anonymous) 2025-05-15 09:06 pm (UTC)(link)
Week 197

Thank you, JMG, and thank you, forumistas.

This finds me hunkering down. Eating lots of red meat. Hours of walking in the lovely spring weather. It's taking me a lot of energy to stay grounded. Seems I'm managing.

People around me have been having the fantods. Dinner last night with old university friends from a big blue city. Heard another batch of health stories from our circles— for example, an aggressive and disfiguring skin cancer, an apparently soon to be fatal brain cancer, a case of severe IBS requiring hospitalization and then a month recovery time.

Between the salad and the main course one of my friends suffered an outburst of TDS, however it passed like a spring thundershower.

I'm not here to defend nor celebrate Trump, by the way. But the TDS in my world, unabated since its onset nearly a decade ago, is awesome to behold. It comes on suddenly, oftentimes seemingly from nowhere, and it involves expressions of extreme loathing and/or extreme fear, usually both. Fear of being arrested for some random reason, fear of censorship, fear of massive economic disaster (even if the speaker, at the same time, ardently hopes that the stock market will crash to show people how horrible Trump is). Israel this, Gaza that & etc & etc. Zilch about the covid jabs, though. Then, whoosh, the TDS is spent. Pass the pie.

Cetiosaurus
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Re: Thank you

[personal profile] earthworm_uk 2025-05-16 07:21 am (UTC)(link)
"This finds me hunkering down. Eating lots of red meat. Hours of walking in the lovely spring weather. It's taking me a lot of energy to stay grounded."

Yeah - not as much right now, but steak for breakfast has been a thing over the last couple of months.
Also working outside is definitely a 'Good Thing(™)' - maybe not as good as disappearing up a hidden mountain, but helps noticeably.
Edited (wrong symbol) 2025-05-16 07:36 (UTC)

Re: Thank you

(Anonymous) 2025-05-16 03:48 pm (UTC)(link)
Maybe it's just me, but something else I've noticed is that more people seem to be refusing to engage with TDS (MDS/KDS). Someone upthread mentioned staying silent and watching the silence, or saying things like "yes yes, orange bad man very bad" and changing the subject. Upon reflection, I feel like it's been a long time since I saw anyone try and engage with the PMC's derangement syndromes. Even in mixed company, you'll get the eruption, maybe seconded by other believers, but no push back. People seem to have gotten better at treating it like a toddler's temper tantrum - don't argue, just murmur a few soothing words while they get it out of their system, then redirect their attention elsewhere. It's very different than it was a few years back, and least from my data points.