Open (More or Less) Post on Covid 31
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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: 2022-03-11 10:55 am (UTC)1) cultivating awareness and attention is something that you can simply encourage by having conversations with them from time to time about different "signals" that come from their bodies - hunger, thirst, sleepiness, need to pee, along with various discomforts from time to time. These are not just experiences, but communications, which can be two-way if we choose. We do not have to heed every single such signal, but we should not cut off awareness of them entirely because that shuts down the possibility we might notice something that needs attended to.
2) the features of the cycle (to my mind) do not need to be fully understood before puberty, but certainly through the years of puberty it can be useful to understand that each cycle is a full set of seasons. The period itself is spring - spring cleaning, and new budding of a new egg. The post-period interval is summer - all about growing the egg to full bloom. Ovulation is autumn - the gathering/harvest of the egg, now sent on its way to the uterus. The post-ovulation interval is winter - the storage qualities of the uterus are what is important. At this point there can be a new period - a new spring, or, if a pregnancy occurred, the winter storage becomes extended, and the pregnancy itself becomes a slower four seasons. If one is "tuned" in to the energies of each of these four phases one can become healthier overall, and also one can modulate the experiences of the cycle to prevent them from being painful or difficult. (My own acupuncture treatments consist almost entirely of this kind of "tuning").
3) if one wants a better handle on matters of conception/contraception (ie - once one is old enough to be sexually active) one needs to know how to spot the signs of ovulation, as well as the period (usually hard to miss). These signs are, in particular, what is not taught, and what I find myself teaching over and over to very mature women. They are 1) learning the types and feel of fertile mucous which appears in the days prior to ovulation - this can generally be spotted with a quick inspection of the toilet paper whenever visiting the loo 2) the movement up and down of the position of the cervix within the vagina at different times of the cycle - this requires having a feel inside oneself from time to time, not everyone is into trying this, and it might be a better lesson to receive from a woman, in any case. 3) individual signs and symptoms that range from subtle to obvious - some women have ovulation pains, whereas others only experience more subtle changes apparent only when paying attention. 4) Basal body temperature charts (probably a good bit of info online about this). These are essential when trying to diagnose a functional fertility problem, but may be too much trouble for most women to keep otherwise. However, for someone who wants to be sure that they are detecting their ovulation properly, so as to use a non-medical approach to contraception, charting for 3-4 months will help you confirm this and feel secure in your timings and options. The important thing to know here is that one cannot become pregnant from about a day or two after ovulation has occurred. (But you need to know for certain that it HAS occurred, and a calendar won't tell you this). You can then use a combination of barrier methods (condoms, diaphragms) during the fertile times and nothing at all during the non fertile times. Whereas, if you want to become pregnant, the key is to make sure that you engage in unprotected sex often - daily or no more than 36 hours apart - between the end of the period and when you know ovulation has occurred. This way, you are unlikely to miss the "window" which is roughly the 1-2 days prior to ovulation during which unprotected sex is most likely to lead to a pregnancy.
This, hopefully is more an introduction to where to go looking for more information. There is a lot more. And I could probably go on and on... maybe I should write that book... ;)