Back in May, I worked for a now-defunct Taxpayers’ Union organisation for two weeks. I wrote several articles for them which were never published. I feel they are still relevant today, and hope you find them interesting.
To see how global leaders think about COVID-19, it is worth reading this article by Larry Brilliant in Foreign Affairs (the publication for one of the world’s most influential organisation, the Council on Foreign Relation). He argues that it will be necessary to make lockdowns and mandatory vaccinations a permanent feature of our lives. As a senior member of the WHO, Brilliant is one of the most influential elements of the global governance infrastructure that crafted the global lockdown blueprint, as shown by his input into the movie script for Contagion, whose plot follows almost perfectly the timeline of the current viral pandemic almost 10 years ago.
Tony Blair and other powerful members of the non-governmental network that shapes global government policies (always sold as “inevitable”) have insisted that the non-vaccinated will need to be segregated and punished in order to compel them to receive treatment, and that this will require a centralised biometric database and the power to restrict people from even essential services if the government deems it necessary.
On these points, the South African government appears to be in perfect agreement. As the country leans into a “technical” third wave of coronavirus infections, talk of increased lockdown standards, school closures, military deployments and mandatory vaccinations have spooked the already burdened businesses across the country. Evidence for the need for these interventions is ambiguous at best, as independent experts PANData show, for several key interventions like social distancing, masking and lockdowns in general.
Considering the massive amount of corruption that has gone into the global tender processes (not just here in South Africa), and the hysteria and censorship, flip-flopping on policies and scientific perspectives, the all-round confusion makes it difficult to know for certain whether any policy is viable. Even the most senior scientific advisors are known to lie to assist censorship that supports the policy programs of the West, as the leak of Antony Fauci’s emails have shown.
The impact of the lockdown need not be spelled out – almost anyone can feel the financial strain and see the marks of the economic devastation. Restaurants are already panicking. It is all justified on the basis of its (questionable) ability to contain mortality rates. But for the ANC there are reasons besides the viral pandemic motivating many of their interventions. The state of emergency allows public procurement standards to be skirted, opening the way for massive public theft. It also serves to accelerate land invasions, because of emergency legal restrictions on powers of landowners to evict squatters. What is more, it serves to liquidate the middle class, whose powers of disposable income and education present a perennial threat to a corrupt government.
In a sinister public comment last year, Nkosazana Dlamini-Zuma (then the head of the Covid Command Council) made the comment that the economic devastation of the middle classes was a bonus, because it allowed them to commit “class suicide”, and be forced into poverty, which was essential for the solidarity with the movement toward communism. This follows the theory of a Cape-Verdean revolutionary called Amilcar Cabral, whose ideas wreaked havoc and poverty in postcolonial West Africa.
So these damaging policies, far from being necessary evils, are seen by our government as positive goods, which allow them to abuse their powers arbitrarily, and liquidate small businesses and the independent middle classes to build an economy based around party-owned companies and state owned enterprises, making every citizen dependent on the whims of party functionaries.
But in Italy, it has been demonstrated that solidarity among taxpayers and small businesses can have a massive effect. By banding together, the restaurant sector in Italy stood up and refused to close their doors. Just like the taxi services in South Africa, when a commercial sector bands together, the state backs down. It simply takes a bit of organisation.