AUTHORISED OFFICERS - A Reflection
PANDEMIC WRITINGS, Melbourne, Australia (2020-2022): piece originally published December 10, 2021
If you have chosen to become an Authorised Officer to help enforce government mandates, regulations and dictates — gleefully investigating imagined breaches in "COVID Safe" compliance and issuing crippling fines as you harass businesses and individuals to the point of utter ruination; effectively providing the ubiquitous "foot in boot" that will stomp on the throats of everyday Victorians as you "just follow orders” — congratulations, you are amongst the very worst humans our species has produced.