I just now learned that China has steadfastly refused mRna vaccines. Huh. Talk about the biggest elephant in the global room. Came here to share that fact. Now I read today's blog post.
China made traditional whole-virus vaccines, not available in the US, Sinovac and others. They also don't work well, but are likely less deadly, and don't turn a human into a spike-protein factory. Not "gene therapy".
Thank you, yet again, for your sense-making this current fog. The emotional flooding in the media seems to keep most people sufficiently entertained (fear is entertainment, too!) And the freedom convoy showed how eager people are to support a good cause with their money and effort - now that energy is safely channeled into establiahed charity organizations to "help ukraine". Virtue can make you feel good, so let us create easy virtue-signaling...It is just as porn is to true love, but hey, if you cannot tell the difference, it is good enough, at least better than nothing.
Found Byung-Chul Han, a contemporary philosopher ( an example https://www.thenation.com/article/society/pandemic-burnout-society/ ) He seems to catch the gist of our afflictions, like losing the glue of rituals that make a community have an accessible shape. Under the fog of infotainment the old structures are collapsing, and nobody knows what collapse is taking with it into the rubble. For me, giving up the thought-form of normal life is hard. The safety-net was always an illusion anyways, but knowing it in the head is one thing and experiencing it another thing altogether. But now that the bubble is broken, new things become possible. Making actions in that direction takes vast effort, but it feels better than infotainment. Snow is melting, one month and I will be gardening, too... Kristiina from Finland
I read that Byung-Chul Han article. He describes the tiredness of a flat and meaningless existence with screens and no movement or real people or places. Food additives and lack of fresh vegetables may also contribute to deep tiredness and the sense that things are somehow deeply not-right.
COVID really takes away energy. I did much less than usual when I had it, even though I took ivermectin based treatment, was not badly ill, and so on.
Some people are very tired for half a year.
The existential wrongness is important. I was not locked up at all during COVID, bike commuting, gardening, seeing patients in clinic, and working on the homestead in Yoakum. I stayed very busy, but I was not living in an apartment in a big Asian city, either.
I hope you are well and that your garden is productive, Kristina!
"To be more safe, we need to improve food security of the community. "
I suggest for now mostly ignoring "'The' community", and focus instead on whatever community you form with you as nucleus. Warm, fed and friendly on the inside; cold and prickly on the outside. The worst period is not the 'lifeboat' period but the 'lifeguard' period when attempts to save anyone not inside your cold prickly social sphere will likely get you drowned with them. The period of the very coldest equations: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Cold_Equations
My adamant conviction is that 'The' community can and will only collapse at first. The gradient of collapse is too sleep and the community networks too fragile and frivolous to do anything but fall into and devour itself.
Food security of the community will be built and shared among post-collapse survivors not during-collapse casualties-in-the-making. The Yoakum garden will become someone else's or devastated. If you retreat to the hills, it will most likely be in those hills where you make your (produce) stand.
I'll offset that speculative perspective with this one: during the inevitable violent collision between humans in town, centered around food sources including your garden, it may be like state troopers recommend: aim at the heart of the collision happening in front of you because it is the most likely to be empty of cars when you pass through that vector.
Just thinkin' aloud. You are already fulfilling what is, imo, by far the most important survival rule during a dieoff: have something worth stealing before you worry about someone stealing it. Well done, sez me.
I just now learned that China has steadfastly refused mRna vaccines. Huh. Talk about the biggest elephant in the global room. Came here to share that fact. Now I read today's blog post.
China made traditional whole-virus vaccines, not available in the US, Sinovac and others. They also don't work well, but are likely less deadly, and don't turn a human into a spike-protein factory. Not "gene therapy".
Thank you, yet again, for your sense-making this current fog. The emotional flooding in the media seems to keep most people sufficiently entertained (fear is entertainment, too!) And the freedom convoy showed how eager people are to support a good cause with their money and effort - now that energy is safely channeled into establiahed charity organizations to "help ukraine". Virtue can make you feel good, so let us create easy virtue-signaling...It is just as porn is to true love, but hey, if you cannot tell the difference, it is good enough, at least better than nothing.
Found Byung-Chul Han, a contemporary philosopher ( an example https://www.thenation.com/article/society/pandemic-burnout-society/ ) He seems to catch the gist of our afflictions, like losing the glue of rituals that make a community have an accessible shape. Under the fog of infotainment the old structures are collapsing, and nobody knows what collapse is taking with it into the rubble. For me, giving up the thought-form of normal life is hard. The safety-net was always an illusion anyways, but knowing it in the head is one thing and experiencing it another thing altogether. But now that the bubble is broken, new things become possible. Making actions in that direction takes vast effort, but it feels better than infotainment. Snow is melting, one month and I will be gardening, too... Kristiina from Finland
I read that Byung-Chul Han article. He describes the tiredness of a flat and meaningless existence with screens and no movement or real people or places. Food additives and lack of fresh vegetables may also contribute to deep tiredness and the sense that things are somehow deeply not-right.
COVID really takes away energy. I did much less than usual when I had it, even though I took ivermectin based treatment, was not badly ill, and so on.
Some people are very tired for half a year.
The existential wrongness is important. I was not locked up at all during COVID, bike commuting, gardening, seeing patients in clinic, and working on the homestead in Yoakum. I stayed very busy, but I was not living in an apartment in a big Asian city, either.
I hope you are well and that your garden is productive, Kristina!
"To be more safe, we need to improve food security of the community. "
I suggest for now mostly ignoring "'The' community", and focus instead on whatever community you form with you as nucleus. Warm, fed and friendly on the inside; cold and prickly on the outside. The worst period is not the 'lifeboat' period but the 'lifeguard' period when attempts to save anyone not inside your cold prickly social sphere will likely get you drowned with them. The period of the very coldest equations: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Cold_Equations
My adamant conviction is that 'The' community can and will only collapse at first. The gradient of collapse is too sleep and the community networks too fragile and frivolous to do anything but fall into and devour itself.
Food security of the community will be built and shared among post-collapse survivors not during-collapse casualties-in-the-making. The Yoakum garden will become someone else's or devastated. If you retreat to the hills, it will most likely be in those hills where you make your (produce) stand.
https://youtu.be/jMOqG7WEek0
I'll offset that speculative perspective with this one: during the inevitable violent collision between humans in town, centered around food sources including your garden, it may be like state troopers recommend: aim at the heart of the collision happening in front of you because it is the most likely to be empty of cars when you pass through that vector.
Just thinkin' aloud. You are already fulfilling what is, imo, by far the most important survival rule during a dieoff: have something worth stealing before you worry about someone stealing it. Well done, sez me.
We shall see what happens, shan't we?
It won't be the same everywhere, will it?
:-)