14/02/2026
I found my old AFP vaccination booklet.
Yellow.
Official.
Stamped like a passport to obedience.
“You need this.”
“You cannot refuse.”
No discussion.
No real consent.
Just policy.
And yeah, for a moment it pi**ed me off.
Not because I’m scared of a needle.
Not because I think I’m still “poisoned.”
Because I remember what it felt like to consider saying no,
and realise I wasn’t allowed to.
No jab, no training.
No training, no career.
That’s what gets me.
The quiet conditioning.
The veiled threat.
The understanding that your career, your reputation, your standing,
all sit on the other side of compliance.
So you roll up your sleeve.
Not from conviction.
From pressure.
Call it duty.
Call it protocol.
Call it “for the greater good.”
But don’t call it free choice.
If refusal isn’t safe,
it isn’t consent.
And I look at that booklet now and I don’t see medicine.
I see a younger version of me who hadn’t yet learned how to question power.
That’s the evolution.
I’m not here to argue “science”.
I’m here to talk about power.
Authority without tolerance for dissent is fragile.
And men who don’t question structures
eventually get shaped by them.
That chapter built me.
But it doesn’t own me.
I don’t outsource discernment anymore.
If that makes you uncomfortable,
good.
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