Open (More or Less) Post on Covid 203

[ecosophia]

We are now approaching the end of 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 all these 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

Covid Book

[frittermywig]

Another Covid book that might be of interest to Ecosophians: Hermes Runs the Game: Inverted Myth, Sacrifice and Initiation In-Forming the Events of 2020-2024 by Stephen Crimi (Logosophia Press, April 2025). I haven't examined the book myself but the publisher's description is intriguing:

Hermes Runs the Game shows how the arc of the covid years is a perfect fit to an inversion of every element of the archaic Greek animal sacrifice, invented by Hermes. Hermes, as presiding deity over commerce, travel, borders, initiation and thievery, is woven into every aspect of the covid op. He was busy in his aspect of psychopomp, guide of souls, to their afterlife destination. This inversion reaches its nadir in the depraved abuse and sacrifice of our children. The last third of the book turns to the light of the Greek mystery tradition, how it was transformed into rationalism, and the possibility of now reconnecting with the nearly-occluded vision of the divine illuminating the sacred origins of the western tradition. This is a book looking deeply at the spiritual underpinnings of the age we are living through.

FYI!

Re: Covid Book

[(Anonymous)]

This certainly does look interesting! 🙏

Re: Covid Book

[white_bear_chronicles]

It was Hermes that guided me through my first covid infection that I was sure would kill me. His instructions to stay away from hospital, keep moving and sweat the the infection out cleared the bug in a matter of days.
He's been quite present the past week or so for what it's worth.
Gawain

Re: Covid Book

[(Anonymous)]

Very interesting. Thanks for mentioning it, frittermywig!

Ron M

Re: Covid Book

[the_arcane_archivist]

Although some specific demonic hypothesis went away. IMHO there is something demonic and ahrimanic about al this affair.

Looking at the way TPTB frack the oils and how they are fracking the Internet I see this as a for of the Empire to frack the human motivation and the last reserves of the people to spend on health, and certain parasitic and predator entities feed on this.

Re: Covid Book

[scotlyn]

Now I am very curious about this attribution: "archaic Greek animal sacrifice, invented by Hermes". I had not heard this mentioned before. Everything else attributed to Hermes in this post, yes, but not this "invention" of animal sacrifice. Does anyone know more about this? Is it this author's interpretation? Is it a generally known and agreed upon element of the qualities, characters and mythology of Hermes? Can anyone point me in a useful direction for finding out more on this topic? Suggestions and responses are welcome.

Re: Covid Book

[frittermywig]

You could try visiting the publisher Logosophia Books or Crimi's Substack. Maybe he sketched the ideas out there in a useful way?

Re: Covid Book

[(Anonymous)]

Thanks for this! I found this interview while perusing your provided links:

https://magickworks.substack.com/p/video-interview-the-occult-architecture

It's 1.5 hours, with the author talking about his views broadly, and his book, which I ordered and look forward to reading.

If I understood correctly, his take is that because we are unmoored from our ancient cultural roots, and hence mythically illiterate, we are sitting ducks for "archons" who do not have direct access to our material reality, but DO have access to our minds. They feed on our negative emotions, and do all they can to stimulate ever more of them. Obviously they are highly successful. Sigh.

Re: Covid Book

[scotlyn]

Thank you, Frittermywig! I shall explore! :)

Re: Covid Book

[randomactsofkarmasc]

Hesiod describes how Hermes slaughtered two of the cows he stole from Apollo and divided them into 12 portions (paragraph 373 https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Hesiod,_the_Homeric_Hymns_and_Homerica/Hymn_IV_(To_Hermes) )

Based on this, some consider him the inventor of sacrifices (https://www.theoi.com/Olympios/Hermes.html) (under the paragraph "Encyclopedia" https://www.theoi.com/Olympios/Hermes.html):
"at the same time he offered sacrifices to the twelve gods, whence he is probably called the inventor of divine worship and sacrifices. (Hom. Hymn. in Merc. 125, &c.; Diod. i. 16.)"

Re: Covid Book

[scotlyn]

Thank you, RandomactsofKarmasc! :)

some useful threads to explore...

Re: Covid Book

[kallianeira]

It's mentioned in the Homeric hymn to Hermes, according to the author of hellenicgods.org:
https://www.hellenicgods.org/hermes

Re: Covid Book

[scotlyn]

Thank you, Kallianeira! I appreciate this!