Open (More or Less) Post on Covid 227

[ecosophia]

We are now into the fifth 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 remain 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; new revelations are leaking out about just how bad the Covid vaccines are for human health; 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.

7. Please don't post LLM ("AI") generated text. This is a place for human beings to talk to other human beings, not for the regurgitation of machine-generated text. Also, please don't discuss large language models (the technology popularly and inaccurately called "artificial intelligence" these days) except as they bear directly on the Covid phenomenon. Here again, my finger is hovering over the delete button. 

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)]

As I entered the factory this morning, a young man walked by wearing one of those blue masks. Outdoors. Alone. I just shook my head and thought: When will it end?? I pray he recovers speedily from his madness.

[(Anonymous)]

My guess is that the face coverings have become a comfort for those who continue wearing them. To wear them means something was done, whether the efficacy of such actions was positive, negative, none or mixed.

– Donald Hargraves

[(Anonymous)]

I've been in my current job for 14 months, and I have coworkers whose faces I have never seen. In some places, I fear, it will never end.

--Sister Crow

[(Anonymous)]

In a local business a young lady who works there wears a mask only when working. Her job is customer service when someone starts giving her a hard time, well nothing like wearing a mask and coughing. Solves the problem. Blueberry

[(Anonymous)]

I maintain that the mask is a fear based promotion. Coincidentally, the last few weeks I have seen multiple different blog posts stating that the masks were absolutely necessary in order to convey the fear aspect of the scam.

[(Anonymous)]

Masks were part of the psychological warfare against society. Forcing people to wear masks was a way to make them personally experience a pandemic, because the probability of them experiencing an actual pandemic (as in dozens of people around them becoming seriously ill or dying from covid) was zero.

The mask mandates were also in keeping with the totalitarian nature of the covid tyranny, a way of making participation in the great covid delusion compulsory. They were a major intrusion into people's lives, such that they couldn't go about their everyday routines without having their breathing obstructed, and in the places with outdoor mandates it wasn't even possible to escape from the mass psychosis by going for a walk around the empty streets of your local neighbourhood.

And when everyone is wearing a mask, the impression this gives is that most people believe the official narrative that there is a dangerous virus on the loose, and therefore support the lockdowns/masks/vaccines. Impose mask mandates that are ultimately backed up by police brutality and only a small percentage will be brave enough to flout them. Then the government can claim that they have over 90% support for their policies.

Love the meme

[(Anonymous)]

Dear JMG and dear forumistas, thank you for this forum.

Wishing you all a very merry Christmas, Solstice, whatever you celebrate.

I've been enjoying the holiday lights in my neighborhood as I get in some extra walking.

Recent times have found me getting together with family and others more often than usual. Nothing particularly interesting vis-a-vis covidian hooha to report. I conclude that what's going on post-cooties injections high noon circa 2021-2022 is a slow, slow grind of somewhat higher death and injury rates. Most people I know appear well, however, a larger number than usual are battling clots, cancer, heart trouble, dementia and/or other neurological issues. Some appear to have healed from what appeared to me to be jab injuries, others not.

On occasion, say, every couple of weeks, I still hear about a "died suddenly." Yesterday for instance a colleague mentioned a relative who, in young middle age, was walking down the stairs and half way down, tumbled down dead.

Resistance to counter-narrative information on the part of almost everyone I know seems to me to be like a gigantic cliff face, and I'm looking up at it, thinking... well, hell. Time for some new approaches on my part— maybe a lifelong detour via the lovely path with the view, as it were. I'll be doing a lot of discursvive meditation in the coming days. Thrust blocks, hmmmm.

May your holdidays be beautiful.

Cetiosaurus

Re: Love the meme

[(Anonymous)]

holdidays... hmmm... that's a funny typo. I kind of like it.

Cetiosaurus

Re this week's meme

[scotlyn]

Hear! Hear! :)

Joyful Freedom Convoy Developments

[(Anonymous)]

As the saying goes, the wheels of justice grind slowly; well, the wheels of lawfare grind even slower. Nearly four years after the Freedom Convoy in 2022, some participants in the convoy are still feeling the effects of said lawfare. All told, however, things are being resolved and are somewhat looking up. A few pieces of good news regarding the two originators of the Freedom Convoy: Tamara Lich and Chris Barber. Both are still serving their sentences of home arrest (Lich for a year; Barber for a year and a half). Even so, Chris is able to be active in his trucking business – including driving his truck, even to and from the USA (I guess the tyrants don’t consider him to be a ‘flight risk’). And just today (the day before Christmas) he was informed by the judge in his current case that the Crown’s request to confiscate and destroy his iconic red truck has been refused! It may seem strange that people can be happy that a person who committed no crime worse than ‘mischief’ is allowed to keep his truck – but such is the situation in Canada these days! Regardless, the judge’s decision is a great ‘Christmas present’!

As for Tamara Lich, she has recently been hired as a special ‘reporter’ for Canada’s original anti-MSM media company: Rebel News (which covered the Freedom Convoy extensive coverage and supported Tamara in many ways since). She will also be going on speaking tours to colleges and universities across Canada – presumably as an ambassador of Rebel News. I’m not sure how that will work while she is under house arrest, but I guess some creativity may be necessary.

Lastly, both Tamara and Chris have started their own YouTube channel appropriately called “House Arrest”! They do a live stream once a week and focus mainly on the stories of other participants in the Freedom Convoy who are not well known by the public but deserve attention due to their courage, unfailing spirit, etc. This “dynamic duo” has already given so much of themselves for the sake of medical freedom, and freedom in general – and nothing seems to be able to keep them down. Honk, honk!

Ron M

Re: Joyful Freedom Convoy Developments

[(Anonymous)]

So glad to hear the big red truck is safe! Thanks for the update, Ron M.

Heloise

Re: Joyful Freedom Convoy Developments

[(Anonymous)]

Thanks for this, Ron.

I am pleased that the judge saw that seizing Chris' truck was not justified under a mischief charge. Even better would be if the prosecutor got reprimanded for even suggesting it.

Caldathras

[(Anonymous)]

thankyou for that report Ron M!

[(Anonymous)]

i have seen this going around:

Bill Gates, Pfizer CEO Albert Bourla Ordered to Testify in Dutch COVID Vaccine Injury Lawsuit
This almost never happens.

https://www.vigilantfox.com/p/bill-gates-pfizer-ceo-albert-bourla

[the_arcane_archivist]

>Dutch Lawsuit

Forgive me if I don't have that much faith in what a small country like Nederlands can change even in the best of scenarios...

Odd?

[(Anonymous)]

I recently took hubby to see a medical doctor at local clinic. While there was the usual sign posted near the front desk, "if you have any of these COVID symptoms..." (symptoms which could apply to a plethora of conditions). However, when checking in, nobody said a word about COVID - not a word! Then, even more perplexing, the internist, queried hubby about various health issues, then asked him if he had been vaccinated against the flu, pneumonia, DTaP (diphtheria, tetanus, pertussis), and shingles (BTW, hubby hates shots, so the answer was no). Again - NO MENTION OF THE COVID VACCINE!!! What's going on??? Mind you, I wasn't at all disappointed, but perplexed. I'm still perplexed. Not the only place, either. Any idea of what's going on?

Re: Odd?

[(Anonymous)]

I'm not sure where you live. Just a guess (if you live in the US): removing the blanket approval of covid vaccines may also have removed liability protection for the prescriber. Since I bet a lot of medical folks know how many side effects resulted from those shots, they're now unwilling to risk personal exposure to lawsuits.

If the past five years taught me anything about most medical profession, it's that the vast majority are uncritical herd-thinkers, slavishly hiding behind official recommendations to protect their lifestyle.

It could also be just another facet of the society-wide refusal to admit mistakes and pretend nothing bad happened-- there are constant cases of that going around.😉

*Ochre Harebrained Curmudgeon*

For interest's sake

[stubborn_ass]

I started to watch Thomas Sheridan (out of Ireland) during the coof era... and like some of his magical suggestions.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ikvG16F11ME

What I didn't know was that he originated the covid egg ritual, which as he explained was a combination of chinese and irish folk magic, allowing folks to throw off the feeling of oppression and regain sovereignty for themselves. The magic chant was "'Corona Has Lost it's Shine by April 9", with personal intention to be written on an egg to be thrown into a river or flowing body of water. He told people not to make it public, as it's an occult ritual, but of course, some folks posted what they did... and he cautioned not to make the intention too personal, as in naming names who had not directly harmed them.

He provided hope and practical magical solutions during the darkest days, but my key takeaway from the alt-scene then was that - I am not alone. The system might want me to think that way, but that was a lie. I wasn't crazy for feeling the darkness and heaviness of all that was happening... others were also feeling it. So overall, I think the coof era has been quite liberating, as we are now openly discussing topics and subjects which people might call woo-woo.

Maybe our dear host can give us an indication.. is Magic Monday much more popular now than pre-coof?

Good intro doc on the Covid op?

[(Anonymous)]

Hi All,

My very normie sister, a college professor, has lately indicated she's open to learning about the Covid op (my words, not hers).

Can someone recommend an appropriate introductory video/podcast/article I can share with her?

Not looking for a detailed exploration, just something to open the door. Apologies if this has been answered before!

Thank you-

Re: Good intro doc on the Covid op?

[(Anonymous)]

Debbie Lerman's THE DEEP STATE GOES VIRAL
https://www.amazon.com/Deep-State-Goes-Viral-Pandemic/dp/1630692999

[kimberlysteele]

I know someone who is in complete denial but who I believe is also dying of multiple Covid shots. This person's decline has been very steep. Every couple of months, this person appears to age a few years with umpteen more terrible pains and chronic conditions. The allopath-psychopaths have put my friend on a small bucketload of pills every day. Of course I could be wrong, but I think the shots are killing my friend.

[(Anonymous)]

Given that she's a friend, can you mention that the shots and pills aren't helping or is she a lost cause?

There's no point with some people - they just repeat the script they've heard, Bill Gates is a philantropist, autism isn't increasing, it just wasn't diagnosed in earlier times, etc etc

Another round robin on Farcebook promoting vaccines...

[(Anonymous)]

The writer Ellen Kushner posted this on FB, a copy and paste job that seems to be doing the rounds.

XX writes: "Having now read through the letters of JRR Tolkien, one of the most impactful takeaways for me was how much of his life he spent being sick, recovering from being sick, and caring for his sick children and wife. One of his sons had a lifelong heart condition as a result of a childhood virus which caused a high fever.
Tolkien describes terror at watching his family suffer through influenza with high fevers and genuinely being afraid they will die. He loses weight and becomes frail from illness several times and struggles to recover. His dental challenges are also seriously impactful to his working life.

There are dozens of letters to his publisher describing the challenges of successive illnesses without widespread antibiotics or vaccines. He repeatedly cites illness as the main cause of his repeated failures to meet publishing deadlines.
He was living at the very beginning of the post-war medical revolution and raising his children before common vaccines for childhood illnesses. One of his kids has a serious disability as a result.

I’m just saying: if Tolkien had access to flu shots, a general childhood vaccine schedule, and antibiotics, we would, 100% have more finished work from him.
It’s hard to fully comprehend how different illness was 100 years ago. How a “simple” childhood fever, without fever reducers and medical support, could turn deadly or cause brain or heart damage for life. Reading this brilliant man’s struggle to find time free of illness or caregiving to write his masterpieces I feel humbled by the sheer amount of time that we have collectively been given by these medical advancements."
via Farah Mendlesohn

Yeah, right! The PR agencies for Big Pharma have been busy.

Re: Another round robin on Farcebook promoting vaccines...

[(Anonymous)]

Sad lol, excuse me now I have to go get some leeches and make a small blood sacrifice so that the sun will rise again tomorrow

Help Needed in Northwest Illinois/Southwest Wisconsin from Medical Freedom Advocate

[moser99]

I live in France but I need help for a relative in NW/IL, SW/WI from someone who is oriented toward the Medical Freedom movement and Covid injection sanity. Thank you to JMG greatly if he sees fit to put this through. The best way to respond is through my Dreamwidth account.

Thank you for consideration. This is Dane County Grandma country.

Thoughts on death...

[(Anonymous)]

Yesterday my neighbor across the street, aged 81, died. She was a true believer in the medical cartel, also a practicing Catholic, and vaxed and boosted to the max. Not sure the number of boosters, but certainly greater than 2, plus the initial 2 injections. This is not specific to Covid exactly, but the shots are causing us all to deal with a lot more deaths then we might have otherwise, so hopefully it still fits as on topic.

Last June she was diagnosed with pancreatic cancer. Following her faith in the medical cartel, she went through 4 rounds of chemotherapy last Summer, then surgery in mid-November. She was in the hospital starting in mid-November and died there yesterday. She has two cats and I have been cleaning litter boxes since the beginning of Summer and doing all the care and feeding since she went into the hospital in November, so I am "involved" in that I saw her most days this Summer as a cared for cats and got regular news from her family while she was hospitalized.

I have observations and questions:
-- The faith in the medical system continues to astound me. My neighbor and her whole family somehow believed that through 4 rounds of chemo and surgery that removed portions of major organs (stomach, liver, etc.) that she, at 81 and already with preexisting conditions like diabetes, was somehow going to come out "fine" and be able to live as she always lived, alone in a two story house. Delusional is not too strong a word.
-- The doctors were all in on maximum treatment in spite of her age and co-morbidities. I imagined them rubbing their hands together and seeing dollar signs upon her diagnosis.
-- In spite of being lifelong good Catholics, my neighbor and her family feared death to a level I found perplexing. I am not sure of the benefit of a religion that provides no comfort in death, which all of us, without exception, will face. But their faith in the medical cartel seemed to trump their faith in Christianity and the medical cartel seems to think that even if you are intubated and unconscious, that is better than death.
-- In a discussion with my son about all this, he said something I hadn't thought about. He said, our culture has decided that the way into this world and the way out of it is through a hospital and those that choose otherwise (birth at home, death at home) are persecuted. Any advice from the commentariat on ways to die at home that don't bring the legal system down on survivors is welcome!
-- The amount of money spent on my neighbor, to basically torture her to death (albeit at her request) has to be in the millions including the chemo, more that six weeks in the hospital, a period of time being intubated, many weeks in intensive care, etc. I truly understand that "death panels" are a bad idea, but this whole thing with my neighbor seemed criminal. All financed by Medicare. She really, really suffered. The chemotherapy was just legal torture so far as I could tell.
-- Our culture seems to give no value to a "good death" where you make peace with your god or gods, you take care of business, say farewell to family and life as it is, and move on. Even talking in this way to people makes them look at you strangely and change the subject. Or worse, they suppose that you are suicidal and call in the medical cartel. I am not talking about euthanasia here, which I am strongly against. I am talking about allowing people who are dying to decide they are done, that they don't want interventions, and allowing the natural process of dying to take place.
-- Our culture continues to deny that we all die. It is a terrible thing.

Re: Thoughts on death...

[ecosophia]

My own experience with my late wife's death, which took place peacefully at home as she wanted, is that if the dying person writes and signs a directive explaining that they have chosen to forgo medical treatment and die at home, there are no legal repercussions. Sara dictated such a directive to me, and signed it; when she died, I called 911, told them it was a non-emergency call and explained what had happened; paramedics and police showed up promptly; they took photos of the statement, asked me some questions, bundled up the body, and took it away; once the medical examiner certified that there was no foul play, which took just a couple of days, the body was released to the funeral home I had selected, and that was that. I think it was to our great advantage that the medical industry hadn't been brought in to deal with Sara's health issues for a good many years, so there wasn't a bevy of doctors and medical bureaucrats drooling over the money they could extract from her case. Still, it went about as easily as such things can go.

[(Anonymous)]

A book that I found incredibly worthwhile regarding end of life was “Loving and Leaving the Good Life” by Helen Nearing. It describes the choices the couple made to live their version of a simple, good life and his choice to quit eating as he approached his 100th birthday. From the back cover, “To have partaken of and to have given love is the greatest of life’s rewards. There seems never an end to the loving that goes on forever and ever. Loving and leaving are part of living.”

[(Anonymous)]

Co-author of another fine book, The Good Life (actually, the combination of two books -- Living the Good Life and Continuing the Good Life). Famous homesteaders. Also worth reading ...

Caldathras

[(Anonymous)]

HHS/CDC Fund Online Game 'Bad Vaxx' to 'Psychologically Inoculate' Vaccine Resistance

Ironically, the game uses the very techniques it claims to train users to detect.

https://jonfleetwood.substack.com/p/hhscdc-fund-online-game-bad-vaxx

sounds crazy to me.

[(Anonymous)]

more fraud..


Hundreds of Public Workers in Dem State Caught in Pandemic Fraud Scheme.

https://thenationalpulse.com/2025/12/29/hundreds-of-public-workers-in-dem-state-caught-in-pandemic-fraud-scheme/