Anyone else notice this?
Fairly unsubstantiated post, based on personal experience, and on what I am seeing elsewhere.
As a "not fully vaccinated" person, society is closing in, increasingly. I am barely allowed to participate in goings-on, anymore. My family shuns and shames me. My "friends" have essentially abandoned me. Shit is getting very, very real, now...
Mask mandates are ubiquitous, across 6 or 7 out of the Australian jurisdictions, including the one I am stuck in. Vaccine mandates, too. I'm not allowed to work. I essentially can't "go out". In another state, they want to make mandates apply in supermarkets, too, so you essentially won't be able to buy food...
"Social distancing" is also ubiquitously still in place. Businesses are closing EVERYWHERE, because they can't make money. Governments are constantly threatening "new lockdowns" and curfews, because, duhh, Omicron, means rising case numbers. It's genuinely scary to see where things are going...
Aside from not currently being in lockdown, we are currently the most restricted we have ever been. Ever. Especially if you are "unvaccinated", or, increasingly, unboosted...
Very soon, people like me won't even be able to enter a university campus, or even study online. Can't work, can't study. Logic...
And people ABSOLUTELY lap this up. Media coverage is UNIVERSALLY for more restrictions. Almost everyone I know, and encounter "IRL" is all for it. As is the entirety of local Reddit, aside from, obviously, the "critical" or "skeptical" subs. Worse than that, if you question ANY element of it, you are shamed, ostracised, demonized, treated worse than dirt. Why?
I know this isn't the case everywhere. Not in Red states. Not in Mexico, per se. Not in Japan. Not in parts of Eastern Europe, or Africa, or elsewhere. But it is, here. It IS, in NZ. It IS in Blue states. It IS in the UK, and in France, and in Germany, and in Austria, and in the Netherlands. Some of those places are even more extreme than where I am, despite less compliant populations, and lower vaxx rates...
When, and how does this end?? Next year will almost certainly be worse. In fact, for me personally, I 100% guarantee it will be.
When will people wake up? Will they ever?? What the fuck are we going to do?? How do we actually push back? I'm genuinely beginning to think that this WON'T end, because people simply do not want it to, so... Where do we go from here??
Amazingly, I think the last 24 - 48 hours may have been enough to truly make me stop complying. I'm done playing along. I'm done with my "minimal compliance". I'm done putting up with this shit. I'm done allowing my family to kick me around, and treat me like "unvaccinated dirt". I'm fucking done with the medical profession, and all of the lies and bullshit they have thrown at us, in the last two years. And I'm done with the fucking disgraceful double-standard that allows Abo protesters to burn fucking Parliament House, but if I so much as WALK ONTO A BUS without a mask, or my smartphone, I will be fined, at minimum, hundreds of dollars.
Done. I'm not putting up with it any longer. No more of this.
"or my smartphone" wut? You mean carrying a goddamn smrtphone is legally mandatory? For ... covid tracing?
I'd be asking the gov't, well, if you want to force me to have a phone, are you going to help pay the bill for it?
... as for getting groceries, can you get stuff delivered?
I mean, it's pretty gross that they're restricting grocery trips. Be prepared to eat a Paki and tell them it's because you couldn't get food at the store. Yes, a Paki, not a non-human. Hey, people feel so sowwy for the cannibal Wheegrrr.
Literally yes, in my state at least...
The ONLY exception is if you order, and pay for (yourself) a "personal QR code" card, that you must then carry on you at all times, as another "form of ID"...
I wish I was making this up, I really do. But I'm not, very sadly... :-(
So yes, failing that, you MUST (legally) carry your app-enabled (so, must therefore be updated), charged (i.e. cannot be flat) smartphone on you at all times. No joke...
That's how fucked things have become, here... :-/