{"id":244112,"date":"2021-10-16T05:48:30","date_gmt":"2021-10-16T05:48:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=244112"},"modified":"2021-10-18T07:25:43","modified_gmt":"2021-10-18T07:25:43","slug":"mass-death-ahead","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=244112","title":{"rendered":"Mass Death Ahead"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1 style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>Linh Dinh \u2013 The Unz Review Oct 14, 2021<\/strong><\/h1>\n<p>Universal suffrage finally came to South Africa in 1994. Not everyone cheered. Many whites hoarded beans, rice, rusks, canned protein, candles and gasoline, etc. They expected societal breakdown, if not mass violence committed by blacks in retribution.<\/p>\n<p>Thousands of whites emigrated, but, this is often overlooked, thousands also returned from overseas, so the \u201cchicken run\u201d was balanced out by repatriation. Foreigners also arrived to join the Rainbow Nation. Here in Cape Town, I\u2019ve met two Americans who are still here, though their children have left.<\/p>\n<p>Chicken Licken is a South African fast-food chain. Founded in 1981 by the son of a Greek immigrant, it has 259 branches in two countries. In 2010, it aired a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=nH_WxJVxHcw\">classic ad<\/a> that begins with a snapshot of suburban tranquility. We see a pleasant house in Krugersdorp boasting a landscaped front yard, date palm, arbored entrance, stone chimney and handsome muntined windows. Its fence is low, with no razor or electric wires above it.<\/p>\n<div align=\"center\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/nH_WxJVxHcw\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><br \/>\n&#8212;<\/div>\n<p>A young male voice narrates, \u201cIn 1994, we moved from our house in Oranje Street, number 30, to our new home, under Oranje Street, number 30.\u201d From warm, natural light, we shift into a darker world that\u2019s blueishly lit. Long rows of steel shelves hold boxes, bags and cans of food. Brilliantly cast, a ghostly pale, moon faced boy with a bowl haircut seems incredulously at his new abode. A thick steel door slams shut.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhenever I asked pa why we moved down here, he\u2019d just say, \u2018Don\u2019t be silly. Go play outside!\u2019 Of course, there\u2019s no outside. As the boy hugs a ball while running around a pole in a tight circle, his mom tells him to go back inside! It\u2019s too dangerous outside, you see, even when there\u2019s no outside.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBut life in our new home was very fine\u2026 for a while.\u201d The mother is shown lounging beneath several lamps, with an electric fan behind her. She\u2019s sunning herself at a mental beach, to the strumming of an electric ukulele.<\/p>\n<p>As soul sapping boredom sets in, they become zombie like. Dead eyed, the boy throws a ball repeatedly against a wall. He presses the vacuum cleaner hose against his mouth or cheek. Their meals always feature Vienna sausages. They welcome a baby girl into their tiny, suffocating universe. We see her blowing out two candles on a Vienna sausage cake.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe lived there for 16 years, 9 months and 5 days.\u201d Finally, their food runs out, so the father has to emerge to look for some. After three days, he\u2019s still not back, so the son has to go find him. With a backpack and bush hat, the young man laces up his boots with trepidation.<\/p>\n<p>Above is a cheery Chicken Licken franchise, next to the old date palm. He comes out through the garbage can to a heavenly chorus, \u201cGloria\u2026 Gloria\u2026\u201d Basking in the normalcy of it all, his face is angelic. Suddenly, he sees his pa at a Formica table, pigging out and looking guilty. Golden fried chicken fills the final shot, \u201cIF YOU HAVEN\u2019T TRIED IT, WHERE HAVE YOU BEEN?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>In 2010, it\u2019s easy to laugh at the hysteria of 1994, but some of it had been justified. A lot depended on where you were. By 2010, over 3,000 white farmers had been killed by blacks. It\u2019s a problem that\u2019s especially serious in the eastern, more Zulu-dominated provinces, such as Gauteng, KwaZulu-Natal and Mpumalanga.<\/p>\n<p>In the three Cape provinces, it was less of a problem. Cape Town based J. M. Coetzee, though, has seared us with the horrific black-on-white gang rape in his 1999 novel, <em>Disgrace<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/51582335420_b549e04574_o.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright wp-image-244114\" src=\"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/51582335420_b549e04574_o.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"370\" height=\"247\" \/><\/a>Coetzee also describes \u201ccardboard-and-iron shanties clustered on the fairways of the golf course.\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/linhdinhphotos.blogspot.com\/2021\/10\/shacks-on-main-road-in-observatory-on_12.html\">Shacks<\/a> and tents have certainly become <a href=\"https:\/\/linhdinhphotos.blogspot.com\/2021\/10\/shacks-on-main-road-in-observatory-on.html\">common<\/a> all over Cape Town. <a href=\"https:\/\/linhdinhphotos.blogspot.com\/2021\/09\/homeless-encampment-near-castle-of-good.html\">Bits<\/a> of the black townships have encroached into civic spaces and formerly all-white neighborhoods.<\/p>\n<p>Many ramshackle dwellings or just ragged people sleeping on the <a href=\"https:\/\/linhdinhphotos.blogspot.com\/2021\/09\/old-homeless-woman-just-outside-castle.html\">ground<\/a> can be found outside the Castle of Good Hope or Saint Mary\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/linhdinhphotos.blogspot.com\/2021\/10\/homeless-outside-st-maryx27s-cathedral.html\">Cathedral<\/a>. The Grand Parade opposite City Hall has turned into a third-world bazaar, with shoppers rummaging through <a href=\"https:\/\/linhdinhphotos.blogspot.com\/2021\/09\/people-buying-used-clothing-from-steel.html\">steel bins<\/a> for used clothing.<\/p>\n<p>Coetzee is off, though, with this prediction, \u201cInexorably, he thinks, the country is coming to the city. Soon there will be cattle again on Rondeborsch Common; soon history will have come full circle.\u201d Cape Town hasn\u2019t devolved that far yet.<\/p>\n<p>An Oriental immigrant tells me Cape Town has gone steadily downhill through his two decades here, yet he won\u2019t go anywhere, for he still loves this sophisticated beauty. Plus, can you deny that the US, UK, Australia or France, for example, hasn\u2019t suffered maybe even worse decline?<\/p>\n<p>On his cellphone, the Oriental man shows me a party of whites dining in rococo splendor at some country mansion. \u201cThey get there by helicopter,\u201d he chuckles.<\/p>\n<p>Coetzee taught at the University of Cape Town in Rondeborsch. As with college neighborhoods everywhere, political statements are common, so I wasn\u2019t surprised to see anti-Covid vaccine fliers there.<\/p>\n<p>Threatened by the Coronavirus, a sweating man crawls towards a carrot dangling over a skull-filled gully, with a false bridge over it. \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/linhdinhphotos.blogspot.com\/2021\/10\/what-side-of-history-do-you-want-to-be.html\">NEW NORM<\/a>,\u201d says a sign. \u201cWe\u2019re In This Together,\u201d mutter the skulls.<\/p>\n<p>From above, there are three messages, \u201cAlmost there!\u201d \u201c\u2026And The Next VARIANT\u2026\u201d \u201cIt\u2019s JUST For Two Weeks!\u201d<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/51512680055_3599630616_o.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright wp-image-244115\" src=\"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/51512680055_3599630616_o.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"360\" height=\"240\" \/><\/a>On the N1 Freeway, I\u2019m behind a car with a large sign in its back window, \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/linhdinhphotos.blogspot.com\/2021\/09\/anti-covid-vaccine-sign-in-back-window.html\">I SAY NO<\/a> THE EXPERIMENTAL.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>In 2 \u00bd months in Cape Town, I\u2019ve taken Uber just three times. Two of those drivers told me about Covid vaccine deaths.<\/p>\n<p>Shaun, a Mozambican immigrant, told me about his 23-year-old friend. Vaccinated on Friday, he felt unwell so went to a clinic on Saturday, where he was assured he was fine. Sunday, he went to a private doctor and, again, was told there was nothing wrong with him. On Monday, he died.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBefore he was vaccinated, we even joked about vaccine passports. He said, \u2018If we don\u2019t have vaccine passports, who will buy food for us?\u2019 We were laughing about it.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIf he had any doubts about the vaccine, why did he get it?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMany companies require you to get it.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSo he had no choice.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNo choice.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAnd you can\u2019t even sue them!\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNo, you can\u2019t sue them.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhat will happen to his wife and children?! You said he was only 23. Did he have a wife and children?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYes.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The other anti-Covid vaccine driver was from Burundi. One of his country\u2019s leading intellectuals had just died, he said, after being vaccinated. During my ride, he got a call from a fellow Burundian, and they discussed this shocking death.<\/p>\n<p>No way in hell would he be vaccinated, he said. \u201cThey\u2019re trying to kill people! They want to get rid of us.\u201d On his phone, he found an anti-Covid <a href=\"https:\/\/linhdinhphotos.blogspot.com\/2021\/09\/uber-driver-showing-me-anti-vaccine.html\">vaccine video<\/a> to show me. \u201cSee? He makes sense.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>With his phone already out, he also showed me photos of his family, \u201cMy wife. My son. He\u2019s sixteen-years-old.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cGood looking kid! Very manly!\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Justly proud, he smiled. Then, \u201cToday is my 50th birthday! You\u2019re my last customer. Now, I go home and have a nice braai!\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAnd some beer!\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYes, and some beer!\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Castle Lager and Castle Milk Stout are both healing, and cheap. Slightly burnt meat is nice, too, and straight talk. Normality is soothing.<\/p>\n<p>When I came here in early August, there was only one silly Covid related rule, no alcohol takeouts on weekends, but that\u2019s been lifted, so life\u2019s almost 100% normal. Most people still wear masks, because that\u2019s the rule, but many have their nose sticking out.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s sad to see masked kids in school playgrounds. What crime we complicit adults are committing against children.<\/p>\n<p>As for social distancing, you can shove that unlubricated uptightness up your misanthropic ass.<\/p>\n<p>Me, I\u2019m never happier than in a packed taxi van. For less than a buck, I can ride where I please!<\/p>\n<p>In one, though, I found this most preposterous sign, \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/linhdinhphotos.blogspot.com\/2021\/10\/commute-safely-during-covid-19-sign-in.html\">COMMUTE SAFELY<\/a> DURING COVID-19 [\u2026] Avoid touching surfaces [\u2026] Keep distance in queues [\u2026] Avoid contact with other passengers [\u2026] Only travel when necessary [\u2026]\u201d<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s almost impossible to avoid touching other passengers inside a taxi van. Your average worker, then, will have plenty of contact with surfaces and other passengers at least 12 times a week.<\/p>\n<p>When Covid broke out in January of 2020, I was in Laos, and since then, I\u2019ve been to Vietnam, South Korea, Serbia, North Macedonia, Lebanon, Egypt, Albania, Montenegro and, now, South Africa. Nowhere did I have to endure a lockdown, though it was technically in place for two weeks in Lebanon. So lamely enforced, it didn\u2019t cramp me.<\/p>\n<p>Lockdowns weren\u2019t necessary, I realized, for life went on everywhere I went. Nearly each day, I ate and drank in crowded cafes and restaurants, and walked or rode buses among the masses. Also, an extended lockdown in Albania, Lebanon, Egypt or South Africa would have triggered massive social unrest, since their economies were already so precarious.<\/p>\n<p>Even in richer countries, though, lockdowns inflict tremendous economic harms, so why has it been enforced so ruthlessly in so many places? Vaccine passports and mass layoffs of the unvaccinated are also wrecking economies. None of this makes sense until you realize many governments are not just trying to cripple, but kill their own people.<\/p>\n<p>With the first wave of Covid, it was knocking off the old in nursing homes. Now, it\u2019s the culling of the young through bogus vaccines.<\/p>\n<p>They\u2019ve been talking about overpopulation for decades, with too many people wrecking the planet with their plastic bags, flushing toilets, plane travels, eating, drinking, breeding or just living, in short, so seven billion must be trimmed to less than two, at least. There are too many lights on all the time, too many plastic knives, polyester scrunchies, cans of baked beans and Styrofoam cups of coffee.<\/p>\n<p>Nothing about the Covid vaccine makes sense. If it\u2019s so safe, why would thousands of nurses rather lose their jobs than being jabbed? Battling Covid for a year and a half, they should know better than anybody what\u2019s what.<\/p>\n<p>Why are the most vaccinated countries, such as Israel, experiencing new Covid outbreaks? Why did Vietnam suffer almost no Covid deaths until it started jabbing people with American vaccines? Pfizer just donated a million doses to that foolish government, by the way.<\/p>\n<p>Though a vaccine is supposed to immunize you against a specific disease, the Covid ones destroy your natural immunity, to make you more susceptible to Covid! Isn\u2019t that a sick joke, at your expense.<\/p>\n<p>Seeing through all this, commenters such as Mike <a href=\"https:\/\/www.unz.com\/mwhitney\/will-vaccine-linked-deaths-rise-sharply-this-winter\/\">Whitney<\/a>, Paul <a href=\"https:\/\/www.unz.com\/proberts\/the-vaccine-not-covid-is-the-threat\/\">Craig Roberts<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.brighteon.com\/channels\/highwire\">Del Bigtree<\/a> and James Howard <a href=\"https:\/\/kunstler.com\/clusterfuck-nation\/the-waiting-is-the-hardest-part\/\">Kunstler<\/a> all expect a very dark winter ahead, as the wokingly vaxxed keel over by the millions.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/51564905644_03d1acbf0c_o.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright wp-image-244116\" src=\"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/51564905644_03d1acbf0c_o.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"360\" height=\"240\" \/><\/a>Since I\u2019m in the southern hemisphere, spring has just begun. Up and down Kloof Street, the cafes and restaurants are packed, and the shelves at my local supermarket, Checkers, are always overflowing. At <a href=\"https:\/\/linhdinhphotos.blogspot.com\/2021\/10\/hartlief-german-deli-on-10-9-21-cape.html\">Hartlief<\/a> Deli, I can eat a great, cheap breakfast at the counter, then buy some Schwarzbrot and biltong spread to take home. Its lively atmosphere always cheers me up. Unlike in Paris, Rome or Amsterdam, there are no protests here. Once again, I\u2019m blessed with normalcy, and it feels good.<\/p>\n<p>Is the US, say, more threatened than South Africa in 1994? Aren\u2019t all its wheels falling off? How fitting, then, that it has another clown as president.<\/p>\n<p>Impotent, citizens can only try to save their own asses by stocking up on rice, beans and Vienna sausages. Even those who can afford to emigrate don\u2019t know where to go, for isn\u2019t America still number one, with the rest of the world mostly a dangerous or filthy mess? So suckered, many still wait for the second coming of Trump!<\/p>\n<p>On April 5th, 1994, the Los Angeles Times quoted a South African doctor who gave his reasons for leaving, \u201cPolitical uncertainty and violence. Worrying about getting shot and killed. Worrying about getting hijacked. Worrying about the kids\u2026 We finally both woke up one morning and said, \u2018We\u2019ve had enough.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Michael Treisman then moved to Saint Louis. A quick web search shows that he\u2019s still there, working at Mercy Hospital. Saint Louis\u2019 murder rate is already nearly twice that of Johannesburg, however, and about the same as Cape Town. At least the doctor has a second home.<\/p>\n<p>Political violence, loss of all basic rights, fear of losing your mind and despair at seeing your kids satanically brainwashed. This dark winter, billions will more than realize they\u2019ve had enough.<\/p>\n<p><strong><em>Linh Dinh\u2019s<\/em><\/strong><em> latest book is <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sevenstories.com\/books\/3425-postcards-from-the-end-of-america\">Postcards from the End of America<\/a>. He maintains a regularly updated photo <a href=\"https:\/\/linhdinhphotos.blogspot.com\/\">blog<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.paypal.com\/donate?token=ADcNPD7USZ6WZfdaHXcysLlQrQupAvWBQ-zMEvkSQu0phtwFIVpVqy74BS0_P7i0JZll4D4WeacQYiZN\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-175417\" src=\"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2002\/10\/donate-pp.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"225\" height=\"80\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.unz.com\/ldinh\/mass-death-ahead\/\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Linh Dinh reflects on the global \u201cpandemic\u201d from a sunny, and sometimes strife torn, South Africa<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":146,"featured_media":244113,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[61,58],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-244112","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-Commentary","category-Current_Affairs"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/244112","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/146"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=244112"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/244112\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":244117,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/244112\/revisions\/244117"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/244113"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=244112"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=244112"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=244112"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}