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.
Re: Perspective on Covid vaccines & Long-Haul Covid
Date: 2021-11-17 12:38 am (UTC)Second, thank you for writing a very sensible and at the same time heartfelt comment which takes all the complexities of the situation into account. I don't read most of the posts on this series because too many of them seem to me locked into one narrow point of view. Your final paragraph especially deserves wide publicity.
I know four people who died of Covid. One of them was my mother, who died in August 2020. Last spring, given what I knew about Covid then and that the people I knew who had already been jabbed had done all right, I decided to try the jab, as an experiment. I had a strong reaction to the second jab, strong enough to decide then and there not to get a booster jab if it were to be promoted, but it passed within a day. Now that more time has passed, it looks to me that Covid is best treated as a worse than usual kind of flu. I won't be getting a booster, just as I don't get flu vaccines; instead I'll continue with the same things that I do to stay healthy that have proven their worth over time. That means obtaining health information from a very wide array of practitioners and doing my best to live in a way consonant with keeping myself as healthy as I can. It also means supporting freedom of choice for everyone in deciding how to address health questions, including Covid.