Today marks the first day in New South Wales – since June 25, 2021 when lockdowns began – where everybody, vaccinated or unvaccinated, is welcome into businesses.
There are currently no COVID-19 restrictions placed on unvaccinated residents. The New South Wales government has dropped all of the vaccine passport requirements. Vaccine free residents have all the same freedoms as those who are fully vaccinated.
I dropped my wife off at Macarthur Square for her long-anticipated dose of retail shopping. She had to exchange an item at Big W, the business I refuse to enter anymore since their decision to have security guards check the vaccine passports of customers. They became the flag-bearer of segregation and discrimination within Australian society. I prefer to reward the businesses that did not enforce a medical apartheid of the Australian community.
The Vaccine-Free Are Welcome
Coco Cubano was open. They’ve been very nice to vaccine-free customers. Their staff didn’t have to let me in during the COVID-19 lockdowns when the New South Wales government limited unvaccinated residents to essential retail only, but they did let me in. I decided to repay them again today by giving them my business. That’s the least I could do for such an awesome restaurant.
The coffee in Coco Cubano as always was exceptional. Seated on one of their cushy chairs, I worked on the laptop for an hour, something that unvaccinated residents were unable to do for six long months until the COVID-19 restrictions were lifted yesterday.
The Anticlimax Of Lifted COVID-19 Vaccine Mandate Restrictions
With ten minutes before all the shops in Macarthur Square closed, I went to look for my wife in Macarthur Square. On the walk through the mall, I noticed a majority of shoppers also walked around without face masks.
I should feel a sense of pride.
“Yes! I made it! I didn’t comply! I didn’t get vaccinated! The government locked me down. They forced vaccine mandates on me. They told me I can’t go into this store or that store. They treated me like scum, like a pariah of society. They kept putting me down.”
“But I made it! I got to the other side! I didn’t have to do anything that the government wanted me to. I’m still able to go enjoy the benefits of society, retail shopping, pubs, clubs. Everything’s going to be forgotten from this point on!”
The Six Month COVID-19 War Of Attrition
This six month war of attrition between vaccine free people and the Australian government COVID-19 propaganda machine should have filled me with a sense of achievement having stuck to my ethical values. But I don’t really have that sense of achievement or pride. It was strange.
I do feel good that I can walk around the mall without a face mask. Everyone else has ditched their face masks now. However, most people made that choice because the government told them it’s okay. The majority of shoppers in Macarthur Square did not forego face masks conscientiously.
I decided months ago that enough was enough. I didn’t see any benefit in face masks, scientists had come out to say face masks did not work to stop transmission, I had no trust in government propaganda around face masks, so I stopped doing it myself a long time ago.
For me, making conscientious objections is not a big deal. But I guess for a lot of vaccine-free people who are coming out of lockdowns and these latest COVID-19 vaccine mandate restrictions with their integrity intact, they will feel a sense of pride that they can now rejoin society on their terms.
Personally, being able to enjoy all these freedoms again was anticlimactic. I expected to be jumping around in elation, but was disappointed with how normal that the return back into society’s fold really was. The government for six months forbade me from the pleasure of a dine-in experience, only to win those freedoms back with a sense that my emotions surrounding those freedoms were much ado about nothing.
As we walked through Macarthur Square, I couldn’t see any hairdresser that was open. The hairdresser I usually visit was just closing its doors. I might have to come back tomorrow, late night shopping.
Diary Of A Mad Chaos is a daily diary written from March 1996 until today, of which individual books and book series have been created, namely “The Lost Years” an exploration of young, entwined love, the “Wubao In China (猎艳奇缘)” book series which provides an extensive comparative analysis of the cultural differences between Eastern and Western societies, and the book titled “Foreigner (华人)” an exploration of race relations in Australia.
