All this lockdown rubbish is fine, I s’pose. Lets face it it’s all about common sense. The world’s had plagues and diseases before and this is nothing different. Nothing different. We die. So what? Ah yes, YOU don’t want to die … But, that’s tough shit, tough titties … even fascist god-bods die.

Lockdown. What joy, what bliss this must engender within the King’s secret cabinets. A ‘virus’ – a gift from god – to accelerate the job of locking our the plebs, the workers the real people and enshrining both the divine rights and the wisdom of a self appointed elite … And of course, as always in such cases, a police force to support it; because divine right and wisdom must ever be allied to the club and the gun – if not by necessity then just for a bit of fun. And, all in favour of a quick return to the status quo – inequity and undefined neoliberal corruption.

The status quo? Not really, this mob of miscreants who call themselves the LNP Coalition – this government of thieves – aren’t aiming for a return to the status quo, as disgraceful and dangerous as we know it would be for a free and democratic world, they’re for turning the clocks back a little further than that – to a world lit only by fire! Yes, like us with social conscience they too have dreams. Dreams that, it’s true, feel to us more like nightmares than dreams usually do. Now of course, as usual, we’re been told that above us all sit a little body of glorious men (euphemistically misnamed government) above the law and, enthroned like the gods they believe in, are the only ones capable of looking out for our best interests. As if they’d have any idea of what the best interests of the mob – Australia – actually is.

Yesterday, that disgraceful ideologue – Alan ‘tick’ Tudge crept out from under the armpit of some warm and loving creature he’s been feeding off and warned all our visitors, our guests, that if they don’t get out of the Lucky Country they will die! Yes, WILL DIE. He reckons that ‘we’ have no requirement to help our neighbours stranded here in God’s little world – Australia, the Heart of Demockracy – HE says, WE will let them die. HE says, WE will not afford them medical treatment, food, water, air or, god damn their foreign souls; coal! Of course, any of you our there who have heard this ticks speeches before will know how damned violent his thinking is. The great triumvirate of the Neoliberal, Fascist, New Guard – Tick Tudge, Christ Porter and that ignorant thug Pistol Pete Dutton wallow in violence. Its all clubs and cudgels and big sticks and coercion and force and denial of rights and police and pain and secrecy … and, its all for our own good.

I’m telling ya, I’d like to have one of these fascist cretins standing in front of me in his stolen Armani, whispering sweet humanities in my ear, as he, or she, beats the living democracy out of one of my guests for me – in my best interest. O how I would! Wouldn’t you? … Perhaps with a syringe full of syphilis on hand …

So, lets hear it for this virus … Hip Hip Hooray for Covid-19 and the Cotton Wool World of the future, and lets hope it keeps all the nasty, poor, bad coloured low life boating types out of the Lucky Country for eternity. God fuck em good, eh .. who said Utopia was unattainable …

‘In the proportion that credulity is a more peaceful possession of the mind than curiosity, so far preferable is that wisdom which converses about the surface to the pretended philosophy which enters into the depth of things, and then comes gravely back with informations and discoveries that in the inside they are good for nothing … Last week I saw a woman flayed, and you will hardly believe how much it altered her person for the worse.’ – Johnathan Swift.