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The Unspoken Pandemic Effect
Learning to feel safe again
At the end of 2021, Victorians emerged from under the veil of the longest pandemic locked down stated based communities around the planet.
Media revved up a frenzy that we were finally free. The third booster had been released. The government were forced to relinquish the restrictions due to the immense pressure of Victorians saying “no more”.
In 2022, we tentatively entered a new year, which promised so much — what happened could never have been predicted.
An entire society was exhausted, battle weary and extraordinarily untrusting. People quietly uttered words of anger and frustration for missing so many life experiences during the pandemic.
I say quietly because frankly anything spoken out on social media got you shadow-banned and labelled a domestic terrorist. That sounds like I’m blowing that out of proportion, I know.
My business social media pages were repeatedly shadow banned for having the message “just do you” — a mental health message for people to take care of themselves.
I landed in the social sin bin on multiple occasions, with more than 300 posts being auto-deleted during the pandemic thanks to the Fact Checker — thanks to the Victorian Government’s mandated message “We’re all in…
