WARY OF RUSSIAN ROULETTE? Without Mandates, None Cared for Vaccination

PANDEMIC WRITINGS, Melbourne, Australia (2020-2022): piece originally published May 19, 2021

Imagine being invited to take a seat and to partake in a game of Russian Roulette; and upon spinning the barrel, the trigger will either strike and rupture the bullet through your cranium, or you will experience the euphoric relief of hearing a simple uneventful click; stand up, walk away, but still potentially be stabbed moments, days, or even weeks later — possibly fatally.

There is no actual prize on offer but a false promise of a false benefit; with nothing truly to gain, but everything to lose; and yet, all are urged to be willing participants by resorting to propaganda and exploiting paranoia — for every spin of the barrel pleases and enriches only those that have invested in the game, and they need players…

...and they hope that if you survive, you will gleefully return to the very same seat for every "variant" that will require another spin of the barrel...

This anonymous nurse is one of the dutifully duped barrel-spinners, holding the gun to the contestant's head, and spin, spin, spinning… and to have only one person take a seat during her eight hour shift has made her ‘furious’ and left her ‘fuming…’

It seems Victorians are wizening up, and seeing the spin for what it is — a lose, lose situation.