Open (More or Less) Post on Covid 31
Mar. 8th, 2022 01:18 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
ecosophia
The corporate media, demonstrating once again that it has the attention span and cognitive capacity of a hyperactive squirrel on bad acid, has now pivoted away from Covid and is finding a new set of temporary obsessions. Despite this, 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 steady stream 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 government officials scramble around like a cat trying to bury its droppings on a vinyl floor, and the unvaccinated wonder why so many vaccinated people have oddly puffy faces these days, the floor is open for discussion.
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Date: 2022-03-08 09:36 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2022-03-08 10:09 pm (UTC)And the stupid tweets in favor of the fox keep coming.
https://twitter.com/theAliceRoberts/status/1500538034558844933?s=20&t=OLr34VEj9uxBggHU4wKWzg
"I dread to to think how bad it would have been if I'd been unvaccinated"
Kind regards
Sean
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Date: 2022-03-09 11:26 am (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2022-03-09 12:32 pm (UTC):-/
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Date: 2022-03-08 11:42 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2022-03-09 12:06 am (UTC)Besides the obvious trolls and agents provocateurs, you also have to deal with
stressed out people that write angry messages without the intention of hurting anybody (sorry!).
I think this is the most useful discussion group because there is no "mass formation" - at least that I can see. I know that is the case because I disagree with most people here and they disagree with each other. I am glad they do that!
Nomadic Beer
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Date: 2022-03-09 06:51 pm (UTC)I also have been venting unpleasantly and apologize without reservation.
Thank You JMG. It does mean a lot to alot of us.
~Wolf
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Date: 2022-03-09 12:41 am (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2022-03-09 04:24 pm (UTC)BTW, I own and have read many of your books and love them all. Right now I am reading "Retropia" for the THIRD time -- I wish so much that I could live there!
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Date: 2022-03-09 11:54 pm (UTC)Yeah, I remember it because we did it in highschool, though much abridged, having no black cast. We did rewrite that song -later no one could remember whose idea it was, but the entire cast and band had it collaboratively done in about ten minutes- to be "Salami" about a picnic instead.
Just free-associating, here.
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Date: 2022-03-09 06:28 pm (UTC)