Open (More or Less) Post on Covid 196
May. 6th, 2025 02:55 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
ecosophia
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; 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.
Covid photo museum
Date: 2025-05-06 09:16 pm (UTC)I just came across this website whilst browsing through Substack. It is a photo collection of the COVID pandemic, full of rather high quality but eerie images people took during the whole mess.
https://www.covidphotomuseum.org/
J.L.Mc12
Re: Covid photo museum
Date: 2025-05-07 02:24 am (UTC)The pictures of people spraying things with disinfectant, sitting far apart, etc., reminds me of my realization, sometime in the spring or summer of 2020, that "The Science" was not science. Early on, when I still believed that the 'rona was a real disease, I did my best to find information about mortality/morbidity, mode and likelihood of transmission, that sort of thing.
The first thing I noticed was that, from the standpoint of severity and ease of spread, the disease (as described by mainstream sources) was nowhere near bad enough to justify the response to it. I did some calculations based on edge cases (the Diamond Princess, the slums of Mumbai) and figured that if the disease were allowed to run its course with nothing to slow it down, we might see a slight increase in mortality for a few months, but probably nothing out of the ordinary range of year-to-year variability.
The second thing I noticed, as information became available about mechanism and likelihood of transmission became available, was that almost everything that was being done in response to the disease was objectively useless (according to mainstream sources). Why continue spraying everything down with disinfectant when we know that the disease isn't transmitted that way? Why wear masks and sit 2m apart when there is no conceivable way that either of those things could stop aerosol transmission? Why stay inside when the risk of contracting the disease from a passing stranger on the street is effectively zero?
That was when I started to realize that what I was seeing was not the response to a pandemic, but some entirely different phenomenon.
Re: Covid photo museum
Date: 2025-05-09 06:56 am (UTC)Exactly how I experienced it, thanks for sharing. I also noted that everyone in a position of power agreed with the measures. There was real choice as to the medicine, you could refuse it, and many did. A narrative of forced medicine was started several times but the majority didn't embrace it.
I'm still wondering what it was about, and feel uncomfortable not knowing.
Re: Covid photo museum
Date: 2025-05-11 08:13 pm (UTC)Re: Covid photo museum
Date: 2025-05-07 02:47 am (UTC)Re: Covid photo museum
Date: 2025-05-07 06:23 pm (UTC)Re: Covid photo museum
Date: 2025-05-07 11:27 pm (UTC)Re: Covid photo museum
Date: 2025-05-07 11:55 pm (UTC)Re: Covid photo museum
Date: 2025-05-08 03:41 am (UTC)Re: Covid photo museum
Date: 2025-05-08 05:18 pm (UTC)(Surely, if your mask blocks tiny aerosols, it will necessarily block much larger smoke particles and thus you won't smell a thing. If you do smell smoke, why then that's proof your mask is defective and you need to fix it! )
*Ochre Harebrained Curmudgeon*
Re: Covid photo museum
Date: 2025-05-08 05:59 pm (UTC)Re: Covid photo museum
Date: 2025-05-08 06:31 pm (UTC)Re: Covid photo museum
Date: 2025-05-08 08:18 pm (UTC)Re: Covid photo museum
Date: 2025-05-09 12:55 am (UTC)I think the smoke just masks alarm pheromone, so they can't communicate a sense of alarm rapidly.
(Perhaps there's a metaphor here for how to muck up the next social media alarm pheromone and keep everyone from losing their cool.)
*OHC*