JUNE 24, 2022: THE VICTORIAN MANDATES HAVE ENDED!
PANDEMIC WRITINGS, Melbourne, Australia (2020-2022): piece originally published June 24, 2022
Today, the mandates across Victoria have ended for the general Victorian worker.1
OCTOBER 15 to JULY 24: 8 months and 9 days of medical fascism.
It is with a poetic irony that VicPol, the force that ensured that a dissenting majority would remain silent, intimidated and ultimately submit to the evil mandates of a Mad Premier, have finally been awarded for their thuggery by a third required application to maintain their employment — three times the charm for the enforcement arm. They chose the wrong side.
Despite all the absurdly unscientific, harmful and ultimately futile containment measures; despite 263 days of "World's Longest Lockdown;" despite the longest imposed mask-wearing (both inside and outside); despite the allegedly 94.6% double-dosed and 68% triple-crippled; and despite the longest workplace "no jab, no job" statewide mandate — Victoria has consistently had the highest daily cases per capita on the planet: a blatantly failed health experiment, a successful experiment in tyranny-by-sickness to beget sickness.
To those who obstinately refused to participate in the coerced experiment, and who deftly dealt with the charge of the twin needle-horned mandates like a matador — this is the date that many of us will emerge triumphantly from the bullring with our heads held high and our hearts intact.
We withstood, and we out-danced the Bull as we leapt, rather than tripped, over the mounds of bullshit...