You can now cop face masks honouring the antagonist of Melbourne’s second lockdown, ‘Karen of Brighton’.
In case you missed it, earlier this months an old broad from Melbourne’s affluent coastal suburb Brighton revealed in an interview with Nine News that she was board of walking the same streets following the state encouraging Victorians to exercise locally.
‘Well, you get sick of walking the same streets. You know, I’ve done all of Brighton,’ she told Nine News whilst walking the cities Tan track.
The comments didn’t sit well with Victorian Premier Daniel Andrews, who met the woman with a thorny response, emphasising that it’s better to be bored than to be sick.
“I’ve got a very clear message to every single Victorian, particularly some of those featured on social media: whether you are in Broadmeadows or Brighton, stay at home means stay at home,” he said on Saturday.
“And if walking your local streets is boring, well, being bored is much better than being in intensive care. That’s my clear message.”
One Brunswick creative, who goes by Eavesdropper, has immortalised the Karen’s faux pas forever and is flogging her tone-deaf comments on Red Bubble in T-shirt or a face mask form. 50 per cent of all profits made will be donated to the Indigenous Literacy Foundation.
In these strange, weird and scary times, at least we can all take comfort in the knowledge that the wealthy class continue to be royal fuckheads and that no level of affluence or comfort can stave off boredom. We might be poor, confined to our black-mould ridden bedrooms that our real estate agents continue to dodge emails about. But at least nobody has made a face mask enshrining our ignorance and des
Earlier this month, the Victorian government announced that everyone who lives in metropolitan Melbourne and Mitchell Shire must wear a mask or face covering or risk copping a $200 fine. On Monday, Victoria recorded 275 new cases of coronavirus, and one death.
