I’m at Wat Muang Mai and they apparently have a new funeral starting soon. On the last one the picture looked like that of a young woman. The ages of the ones I have known ages on the past few weeks have been 32, 36 and 39. There have been quite a few not mentioned.
It is the high season and crowded along the beaches as the tourist have been coming back to the Land of Smiles. This does make traffic accidents more common especially leading into biggest festival of the year SongKran on April 13. I do not know what anybody has died of, so I can not comment. But it seems to be a surprisingly young crowd in the temple lately and busy too.
I told many people early on that the ambulance sirens were the big first clue in Thailand that something was terribly amiss. We live close to the main road and all hospitals are South so they pass us. In 2018 and 2019 I heard on average 1-3 per week, with some late night weekend spikes (maybe drunken accidents or bar fights) to 3-5. In 2020 it was very quiet on that front with sometimes 1-2 weeks going by with nothing at all. The jab rollout coincided with huge spikes especially during the mass jab events at Phuket Airport, the only point that would affect north Phuket inhabitants. Sometimes I would hear 6 or 7 sirens PER DAY.
It quieted down a bit in 2022 but never returned to that 1-3 per week baseline number. Since I’ve been here in 2023 it’s been a spike all over again, sometimes back up to 5-7 per day. It’s not higher than during the jab rollout, but it’s about the same.
Back in the USA the Ethical Skeptic posted this chart of deaths:
This is a chart of Non Covid Natural Cause Mortality. He’s excluding accidents, overdoses and suicides, some of which I think could hypothetically be jab related and can definitely be Covid policy intervention related. It goes through late March of 2023, during a time when spring has sprung and mortality numbers should be steadily dropping as per their seasonal pattern. They don’t seem to be really dropping at all. They’re the highest they’ve ever been.
Does this worry anybody else? Have you noticed anything in your area that still persists or is even worse than before? I am curious.
We’re in the time of great dying.
As KW Norton writes:
Signs of denial from the above linked article:
You refuse to talk about the problem.
You find ways to justify your behavior.
You blame other people or outside forces for causing the problem.
You persist in a behavior despite negative consequences.
You promise to address the problem in the future.
You avoid thinking about the problem.
From VeryWellMind by Kendra Cherry
Scanning over the examples of denial in this linked article and how we can recognize them in the real world it is not difficult to see we are living in a time of great denial. I am sure you as readers will have many examples of the way this denial affects all of us. It is so extreme in fact that we who don’t shield ourselves in the comfort of denial have come to seriously worry over the mental health of our fellow citizens, friends and family who do.
Life As Per Usual Is Not Possible
I find it impossible to go on as usual in the midst of this. I believe most thinking, feeling human beings do also. It would not be natural to go on as usual. Of course even when dealing with grief we put one foot in front of the other and go on. With the help of others it is the brave thing we do in the face of death and destruction.
But there comes a time when we must dedicate ourselves to speak more forcefully about it. Especially when the ignoring of it is so impressive as to be overwhelming in the extreme. It is almost as if there had been a great worldwide disaster in which there were many thousands of injuries and fatalities. And as if this planetary disaster had been studiously ignored.
And particular when the ignoring of this time of great dying produces so many dark manipulations of reality among us. Weird things like the deliberate turning of common sense, logic and reason on their heads. We are most definitely not in Kansas anymore.
We live in a world of denial. If you know much about denial you understand that those suffering from it will believe almost anything other than face the truth. They will engage is such outlandish and strange behaviour as believing men can be women and women men. They can be induced to believe things like war is peace and peace war. Really there is no end to what they will do to prevent themselves from seeing what they fear most - the truth.
To be in this time of great dying - awake while walking among those in denial - is a destabilizing and destructive situation.
I refer here to the work of a fellow SubStack writer, Mark Crispin Miller, who has been steadfastly raising awareness about the specifics of this great dying since I have been writing here. I believe the best way to emerge from delusion is to face a steady stream of the actual facts. The facts are many but the clearest and most reliable reminders of the truth here are that many innocent people are dying unexpectedly.
It is difficult to wade among this and see so many, perhaps fearful for their own lives, who pretend that it isn’t happening. I think some of that is protective and there certainly could be other reasons beyond the jabs why this is happening. Perhaps a nefarious plot to systematically poison the air, land and water for depopulation purposes is finally bearing fruit. Perhaps the most hard core virtue signalers know in some part of themselves that they did wrong and thus they bear karmic consequences. Perhaps a magnetic shift in the poles is causing imbalances that lead to large die offs. Perhaps God looked at all the sin and depravity of our modern living and said we need a cleanse. Perhaps it is a combination of all of the above.
Speaking of which something that hasn’t died is any of Daisy’s 11 puppies. It’s six females and five males. All of the white ones with spots are boys, all of the dark colored ones are girls, the all white and the grey one are female and the tan one is male. Now that they’ve opened their eyes I have to get new pictures out of them.
My comments on Aseannow are mostly depressing reads castigating me for not spaying my dog. It’s not terribly helpful after the fact unless one wants to boldly suggest that the best way to get the puppies adopted is to throw them in the river or something. It does show where such depopulation ideas started though. There’s whole industries built up around it.
It’s hard to get a not blurry picture of these guys.
I don’t notice any excess of stray dogs or that many dogs period in our area and with some persistence I’ve been able to thus far adopt out the puppies we had. I do worry about pet overpopulation though for the simple reason of human depopulation. For example we have a new dog at the Las Vegas house, Everette.
My younger girl has been posting youtube shorts of the pets in Las Vegas. She’s over 100 followers! Everette and Max is in this with Mom’s old cat Dolly.
The owner, a very obese woman in her 50’s, had a stroke in February. She is still alive but she can no longer walk or live independently and is now in an assisted living facility. Obviously she can no longer care for her dog so we have a new addition. I suspect that there have been and are going to be a lot of dogs just like him.
So what are you seeing in your area?
I am noticing more sirens around Sukhumvit in Bangkok, again. There was a 'booster campaign' in March. And low and behold the Bangkok Post (government) is pushing boosters again this month (the 'Gen2-Bivalent Pfizer vaccine'):
https://www.bangkokpost.com/thailand/general/2542164/institute-offers-booster-shots
Comments are telling- the zeitgeist has changed...
It's good that you mentioned people's denial strategies in this post, this is highly relevant and important to understand what is happening. I have been researching the concept of willful blindness the past few days and will write about it soon.
Good point. From the standpoint of Nashville Tennessee I noticed a huge increase in sirens in 2019. This was underscored because our Malamutes love to howl back at sirens. In 2019 we moved to an old house far more distant from the Nashville Vanderbilt medical complexes but even out in the country they were insistent. These sirens were like dark angels of the apocalypse.