Mastodawn

These lines are to commemorate my spectacular failure to win the North Street Book Prize with my 2024 collection “After Spruce: Poems in the Manner of Tom Jenks’ ‘Spruce’ During the Time of the Coronavirus Pandemic”.

Originally published Infection House July 2020

#ExperimentalPoetry #poem #poetry #PoetryCollection #PoetryCommunity #WritingCommunity #Australia #UnitedStates #coronavirus #COVID19 #pandemic #DonaldJTrump #ScottMorrison #GladysBerejiklian #SocialDistancing #WetMarket #Wuhan #SneezeGuard #ConvalescentPlasma #Outbreak #PPE #Hotspot #FalsePositive #HotelQuarantine #Pangolin #ImmunityStrategies #ToyotaCorona #ContactTracing #SanitationStation #tears

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Dick Smiths Fair Go Supporters Dec 4, 2021

@Br0m3x
People travelling vast distances have always been an issue for viruses, not just covid.

There is a place for #quarantine, but there's a wrong way to do it, and a right way.

We are not supportive of mandatory #hotelQuarantine, it should be an option whether people use their home or a bespoke facility, and NOT for those found in the wrong place at the wrong time.

Using #airTravel quarantine is sensible, 14 days may be too long politically but its better than #experimentalMedications.

Dick Smiths Fair Go Supporters Sep 4, 2021

This week #MaxKeiser made an interesting point about #Australia's #hotelQuarantine system.

Australia has an extreme number of outrageous #financialProducts designed to prop up #rentseekers and #bankers at the expense of #savers. Rather than taper markets w lower #moneyPrinting or raising #interestRates he posits #hotelQuarantine is used to remove people from the economy.

It may sound conspiratorial, but judging by #building proposals we see a growing weaponisation of #COVID and #mentalHealth.

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Dick Smiths Fair Go Supporters Sep 3, 2021

@strypey
We were just talking about how "#HotelQuarantine" can help to make this a reality.

The trick is to always have a steady supply of people being put into them and they can only access things like #twitter, #Fakebook, and streaming services that can be monitored.

The quarantine places should be fitted out with #WiFi that collects #brainActivity.

#AI should be able to handle the rest.

#TheMatrix

Dick Smiths Fair Go Supporters Sep 3, 2021

@requiem
If you combine #TheMatrix with #1984 that is where we are at, the end result is looking TheMatrix-like.

In #Australia they are building the #highrise AI Farms, we mean #ConcentrationCamps, we mean #HotelQuarantine.

They just claim they are building spacious luxury #apartments. As a population we are too scared to do anything to stand in their way.

#bigConstruction #construction #takingTheWorldPrivate

Dick Smiths Fair Go Supporters Jul 24, 2021

When #humanEnergy can be channelled into improving #BigTech and #autonomousDrone #AI systems without even the person knowing it, we wonder whether #HotelQuarantine might become the new variant of the #ReEducationCamp?

The #corporateMedia tells us you "must be fit" to be a worker at #covidHotel, they say you'll need many weeks of training and will be handsomely paid.

#bigData #concentrationCamp #mustBeFit

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Dick Smiths Fair Go Supporters Feb 15, 2021

@RadicalEdward
More #MatrixPrequal garbage, we see. We are just waiting for the aha moment in the #legacyMedia, whereby some poor kid is used to sell the idea that #VR and #hotelQuarantine go well together.

"Thank goodness for #VR, its healthy for you, when you are in #arbitraryDetention."

#Microsoft #brainwavePoweredCurrency #patent060606

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Dick Smiths Fair Go Supporters Feb 15, 2021

@bob
Quite right. In #Australia #COVID19 is being used in a #disasterCapitalism fashion. Shops forced into buying #perspexDividers that people simply walk around to speak. Unpopular highrise #bailOuts for use as #hotelQuarantine (read: #abitraryDetention), complete with #airLocks between rooms (#goldPlating). Apps (#COVIDSafe) that few wanted etc. We've done fine without this. We don't need it.