Open (More or Less) Post on Covid 15
Nov. 16th, 2021 03:06 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
ecosophia
The semi-open posts I've hosted here on the Covid-19 narrative, the inadequately tested experimental drugs for it, and the whole cascading mess surrounding them have continued to field a very high number of comments, so I'm opening yet another space for discussion. 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 et al. are causing injury and death. 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 tame 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 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. No, I don't care if you disagree with that: my journal, my rules.
With that said, as the mass media insists that it's perfectly normal for pro athletes to drop dead of heart attacks at sixty times the usual rate, and search engines turn up a steadily increasing series of hits for the search string "died suddenly," the floor is open for discussion.
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Date: 2021-11-16 10:12 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2021-11-17 01:09 am (UTC)https://jenrichardson.dreamwidth.org/
Another one is Green Wizards, another spinoff from JMG's writings. Quite active these days.
http://www.greenwizards.com/
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Date: 2021-11-17 01:34 am (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2021-11-17 02:03 am (UTC)https://www.theorganicprepper.com/
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Date: 2021-11-17 03:26 am (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2021-11-17 03:50 am (UTC)It's always, always good to have at least a few weeks and maybe a couple months' worth of non-perishables on hand, and a well-stocked first-aid kit.
Most of the "prepper" stuff about long-term emergency food storage and living off the land is pure fantasy: in an actual crisis, the most valuable things are mobility and personal connections. If you're not already a farmer/homesteader, raising meat animals and canning your own garden produce, then any situation where you'd need to have six months' food stored away... is a situation where you stayed too long when you should have packed your bag and moved to another town/state/country, probably last year.
The most valuable things you can "prep" are personal/family/social connections, whether that's keeping in touch with relatives or belonging to a good church community or other local in-person organization or social group, contingency plans for if/how/when to leave and where to go (mobility!), and how you will communicate in a crisis (we ran into this problem after a hurricane: cell towers went down. But also: if your phone battery dies, will you even have the numbers you need?).
If you live in an area where there are floods, hurricanes, or wildfires, perhaps you already have some experience at having a bag packed and knowing when to get out, as well as what kind of supplies are actually useful "after" (hurricane zone: cash, gas cans, a chainsaw with extra chains and oil, sturdy shoes, granola/trailmix/energybars, drinking water, spare tires, leather gloves, and a good road atlas). Some of that experience is transferable to other sorts of crisis.
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Date: 2021-11-17 11:25 am (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2021-11-17 09:33 pm (UTC)https://www.brunettegardens.com/
It comes with a cat:
https://www.brunettegardens.com/2021/03/meet-chaco-the-indoor-only-suburban-farm-cat.html
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Date: 2021-11-18 12:32 am (UTC)