ecosophia | Open (More or Less) Post on Covid 196

We are now in the fourth 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 more than three 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 are 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; 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.

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.

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Thanks for mentioning this, Anonymous, and thanks, JMG, for putting this comment through. I do think it's relevant to discuss how peoples' perceptions and states of consciousness have been deliberately manipulated, whether by some mysterious government agency, or some run-of-the-mill advertiser, to get them to behave in certain ways that are not in their best interests— and what to do to protect oneself against that.

Last year (I think it was) I recall some discussion on this forum about the covid scare ads (those ads trying to get people to stay home, wear masks, get tested, take jabs) and how to give those, in essence, an astral kung fu chop (e.g., overlaying an image of a clownface).

For me, simply taking the time, a split second usually, to identify the cacomagic as cacomagic is sufficient protection— so it seems to me. Let's just say, there are a whole lot of things I used to accept without question that, post 2020, I now recognize as total baloney.

OP here. Thank you for sharing. I also was far more accepting prior to covid and even more accepting prior to learning about peak oil back in 2005. Silver linings for me in the covid hell I went through included becoming much more empowered around my health and also learning to see these more complex patterns rather than reacting to every "little" thing that happens. Jmg's and now Stylman's writings have helped me immensely with the pattern recognition.

As an aside, I just found an interview that Naomi Wolf did with Stylman in the last week or so in case anyone is interested: https://x.com/i/broadcasts/1LyGBWwovgbJN

>> For me, simply taking the time, a split second usually

Isn't that a recognized stoic self-training technique? Training yourself to step back for an instant when you catch an auto emotional reaction starting.

When I catch myself feeling a flash of rage or fear I try to immediately mentally step back and look at the response - not at the input but at my response - and consider how I wish to consciously respond, before it snowballs. It seems to help calm me down and clear my head, and if it doesn't want to clear quickly then focusing on breathing helps.

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