A Facebook Event Is Inviting Australians To Scream Fuck You At COVID-19 From Their Porches
Over 17,000 people will apparently be yelling their guts out at the shittiness of COVID-19 this Friday across Australia.
It’s hard to sum up the events of the last six months more succinctly than this: “Covid’s shit. Everyone’s a bit sad.”
That’s particularly true of this week, with Victoria being plunged into the strictest lockdown Australia has seen so far during the COVID-19 pandemic. A curfew will be in place in Melbourne from 8pm to 5am, all non-essential businesses will be shut, and residents will only be able to leave their homes for essential services and exercise. The rest of the nation, meanwhile, is gradually opening up, although New South Wales is balancing on a knife edge with cases continuing to pop up.
So yeah, “Covid’s shit” quite accurately captures the state of affairs. You might feel a little down, you might feel incredibly anxious — and you might feel the urge to say, stand on your verandah and scream your fucking lungs out to the world. And if you do feel like that, you’re in good company.
A Facebook event titled ‘Stand on your front porch and scream’ has taken off in the last couple of days, with nearly 50,000 people (at the time of writing) interested in ‘attending’. The details are pretty straight forward: on Friday, August 7, at 7pm AEST, you shuffle to your verandah (or backyard, or any other socially distanced place), and scream your fucking lungs out.
“Feel like this pandemic is a bit arse? Yea same,” wrote organiser Tessethia Von Tessle Roberts in a comment on the event page on Sunday. “Help yourself feel a bit better about the impending collapse of society and ur growing helplessness and just yell about it.
“”Covid’s shit. Everyone’s a bit sad…let’s all unite in our shared depression.”
And while this may have initially been a Melbourne-specific yelling time, it’s now exploded to all corners of the nation. So prep your lungs, gird your loins, and join the nation in yelling through our collective sorrow. Check out the Facebook event here.
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