I'm not just talking about where I am (Australia, as most of you already know, by now), either... Some of the stuff I hear coming out of the US is actually worse (mandates to even attend University, for example... That isn't legal here, yet...), and you guys are all about your "freedom", or so you claim, at least...
But it seems to be pretty much everywhere. Chile - mandates for everything, and masks everywhere. Peru - gender-based curfews. The UK - PCR tests to even fucking travel. Canada - increasingly awful mandates and restrictions. France, Italy, Germany - vaccine passports and masks. Japan - separating children and mothers, and forcibly quarantining them separately...
And you already know about China, and South Africa, and New Zealand, Australia, and of course the US, so I don't feel the need to go over all those shitholes again.
What scares me, though, is the COMPLETE LACK OF ACTUAL RESISTANCE to all of this, except for France, Germany and the UK, and even then it has achieved fuck all...
Seriously, I'm not advocating violence, I'm honestly not, but if people don't, and won't, stand up now... How the fuck are we going to avoid full global fascism, a la 1984..?!
I never thought people would be this fucking weak, or utterly, utterly... Worse than cowardly. I'm not sure "coward" accurately describes someone who snitches on their neighbours, or their family, or "reports" people to the authorities for posting old travel snaps (yeah, that happened here, last year). I'm not sure it applies to someone who LITERALLY WANTS PEOPLE LIKE ME DEAD, because I'm not willing to get the fucking AstraZeneca jab. Nah, I don't think "coward" cuts it. I'm not quite sure what does. Fascist? Bastard? Literal scum of the earth? How the FUCK did society fall like this, so quick, nevermind all the other insane bullshit going on right now, all over the place..?
Fuck.
Something straight out of Falling Down...maybe we need more of that right now.
(Runs down hill chasing fearmongers) Hey wait!! You forgot your MASK!!! YOU FORGOT YOUR MASK!!!
...The hero we need.
"Eighty fie cent"
Russia might be a special case though. Early on this year Moscow tried implementing a vax passport to go into bars and restaurants and apparently most people responded by simply not going out to bars or restaurants. Eventually the mandate was dropped.
That will work. Tanking the economy always works. See last 2 years for most current example.
It's sad that we're to the point I can't really feel outraged about that, and in fact feel some glee.
Also, I fucking laughed at a propaganda piece about some Oakland grocery store that was begging the government to bring back mandates, since people weren't listening to their store mandates. It was supposed to be portrayed as bad, but I just grinned when I read that someone threw a watermelon at a cashier, allegedly. Now, I don't condone the violence, but it's a hilarious mental image. Also, fuck masks, and fuck authoritarianism.
Writes down note to self: Watermelons are heavy, and hard, like a balling ball...
"Improvised weapon? Hell nah, bro, I just really like fruit!"
Lol, I can actually see myself doing that, and the media spin that came afterwards would almost make it all worth it, too!