VICTORIAN STATE OF EMERGENCY RENEWED

PANDEMIC WRITINGS, Melbourne, Australia (2020-2022): piece originally published January 2, 2021

Ah, so Victoria's 'State of Emergency' is due to expire tomorrow. It will undoubtedly be renewed now. What uncanny timing that after almost two months of zero cases the "eradicated virus" just happens to re-emerge and infect the public mind once again... just when it was fading from prominence, and things were starting to revert back to some semblance of normality.

Alas, Authoritarianism is a 'wicked' and 'deadly' virus that 'does not discriminate' as it ruthlessly infects the host body of a population, corrupting and deviating all aspects of normal life. It is extremely contagious and is resistant to all but the constant application of truth. It thrives and propagates on falsehoods and wilful ignorance. Many will unfortunately succumb to infection, and in their crazed-state seek to mindlessly infect others.

It is unlikely that the Herd will ever acquire immunity prior to complete devastation —so it is truly up to the courageous individual to become a 'front line worker' and administer the essential prophylactic:

All that is true.