In pre-covid times a mandate was an occasion to have a nice meal and a beer with your platonic male friends so you could complain about the women in your life. Nowadays, a mandate is some kind of authoritarian method of forcing you to violate your bodily sovereignty at the threat of loss of employment and social exclusion.
I thought I was safe from Covid in tropical Northern Australia, and I was.
What I wasn’t safe from was the symptoms that indicated the emergence of an authoritarian technocratic security state.
Oh shit, all my pothead conspiracy friends were right 10 years ago. I remember thinking.
I wondered if there were any vaccines I could take to protect myself from the emergence of an authoritarian technocratic security state, but the only one that came up in my google search was death.
I missed being able to have a nice meal and a beer with my platonic male friends while complaining about the lack of women in our lives because we couldn’t leave the houses anymore. Now all my man friends just send me tiktok videos of the police force beating up civilians or pictures of crowded hospital wards and accusations of being selfish.
MEETING THE COLLECTIVE FEAR ENTITY
The mandates slid over us like a cloud of dense smog. The once free and easy lands of Tropical Northern Australia…
