The Latest Covid Tyranny in Europe By Richard Miller (London)
Vice President of the Lower Austrian Medical Association Gerrit Loibl wants the government to levy a monthly fine of up to €100 to anyone unvaccinated. All that for being part of a vast global medical experiment? Surely, we all need to be paid lab rat fees!
“Vice President of the Lower Austrian Medical Association Gerrit Loibl has suggested that the government should levy a monthly fine of up to €100 to anyone unvaccinated.
Loibl has suggested that those who have not been vaccinated should pay between €90 and €100 (£78-£84/$90-$113) per month to the government, claiming that the amount is based on the current tax on tobacco products.
The proposed monthly fines would be part of Austria’s already announced vaccine mandate for all residents that is scheduled to begin in February of next year.
Medical law expert Karl Stöger was critical of the proposal, however, and said it was questionable whether or not fines would encourage people to get vaccinated, as some people would simply accept to pay them rather than be vaccinated, newspaper Kronen Zeitung reports.
Last week, the Austrian government announced that it would be locking down the unvaccinated across the country, only to announce days later that everyone in the country would be put under lockdown regardless of their vaccination status for a period between ten and 20 days.
Populist Freedom Party (FPÖ) leader Herbert Kickl reacted to the lockdown and mandatory vaccination announcements by stating that Austria had become a dictatorship under Chancellor Alexander Schallenberg’s government.
The Freedom Party later organised a rally against the lockdowns in Vienna over the weekend which saw between 38-40,000 people take to the streets of the Austrian capital in the largest anti-lockdown protest seen in the city since the start of the coronavirus pandemic.
While the protests were largely peaceful with just ten arrests, Austrian Interior Minister Karl Nehammer claimed there were growing signs of radicalisation among the anti-lockdown protesters, noting that same demonstrators in the city of Linz had attempted to set fire to a police car.
Following Austria’s lead, other European countries are also locking down after seeing surges in new coronavirus cases. The Netherlands, which saw record weekly infection numbers this week has introduced legislation to allow for restricting unvaccinated people from indoor venues such as bars and restaurants.”
Italy is not to be outdone in the Covid tyranny stakes, and has now introduced a “super Green pass,” granted to those who are considered fully vaccinated and those recovered from the virus. It basically gives back those freedom that people used to have pre-Covid. That governments can take away basic human freedoms, calls into question the legitimacy of governments.
“The Italian coalition government under Prime Minister Mario Draghi has approved a new decree restricting the activities of unvaccinated people and creating what has been called a “Super Green Pass”.
Italy’s current vaccine passport system, known as the Green Pass, is eligible for those who have taken a Wuhan coronavirus vaccine, have recovered from the Chinese virus, or have tested negative for Covid-19 within a certain timeframe.
But the new “Super Green Pass” will only be granted to those who are considered fully vaccinated and those recovered from the virus, a report from the Italian news agency ANSA stated, with the country’s council of ministers approving the degree on Wednesday.
Those with the Super Green Pass will be allowed to engage in various activities, such as indoor dining, sports, and other activities, while unvaccinated people would be barred, even in regions that are deemed low-risk, according to the country’s colour-code system.
If a region goes into the most severe colour code — red — then all people, regardless of vaccination status, will have restrictions imposed. That means that all non-essential shops will be closed and other non-essential services will be halted, much like they were before the introduction of the vaccine passport system.
Matteo Bassetti, head of Infectious Diseases at the San Martino hospital in Genoa, commented on the new decree, telling newspaper Il Giornale: “This decision aims at two objectives: to make the places where the new measure will be applied safer and to encourage vaccinations. It’s a way to motivate people to immunise themselves.”
The newspaper notes that there have been several other changes in the Super Green Pass, including making the Super Green Pass only valid from December 6th to January 30th in low-risk zones, which will mean that only those with the pass will be able to stay in hotels during the holiday season, as well as enter bars and restaurants.
Vaccine mandates will also be introduced for teachers, school staff, health service administration workers, police, and member of the Italian armed forces. Workplaces that require the basic Green Pass will still be allowed to present negative coronavirus tests.
National-Conservative Brother of Italy (FdI) leader Giorgia Meloni, the head of the only major party in opposition to Draghi’s grand coalition government, slammed the new decree.
“Draghi and [Health Minister Roberto] Speranza admit that they were mocking Italians when they promised that using the government pass even to work would ensure freedom. They do not exclude the extension of the state of emergency, they still change the duration of the Green Pass without providing any scientific data, and there is no doubt about vaccination of children,” Meloni said on Facebook.
“We would expect excuses and acceptance that the strategy used so far hasn’t worked, but it hasn’t worked out that way,” she added, and claimed Draghi was introducing “more penalties and more restrictions on citizens’ rights, no concrete intervention to solve the structural problems Italy has been burdened with since the beginning of the pandemic”.
The introduction of the Green Pass to workplaces last month spark protests, some of them turning violent. Earlier this month, the government raided the homes of anti-vaccine passport protesters, arguing that dangerous elements were attempting to cause violence and chaos at demonstrations.”
If one wants to participate in society, then you have to have all the jabs the ruling elites say you must have. All the more reason to retreat from their cesspool society, if at all possible.
“Irish Senator Gerry Horkan has stated that those who wish to “participate in society” must be vaccinated against the Chinese coronavirus.
Senator Gerry Horkan, a member of Fianna Fáil, a party currently in government, told Seanad Éireann — the upper house of Ireland’s legislature, roughly equivalent to the UK’s House of Lords — on Tuesday that those who wanted to “participate in society” must be fully vaccinated against Covid-19.
The senator made the comments as he was discussing expanding existing restrictions on unvaccinated people within the Republic of Ireland, which implemented a Covid pass regime back in July of this year.
Since then, only those who are fully vaccinated against Covid-19, or have recovered from the disease within the last six months, are permitted by law to dine indoors, with restrictions subsequently expanded to include nursing homes, cinemas, theatres, nightclubs, as well as certain other events.
Senator Horkan questioned why the existing measures had not yet been extended even further.
“Why not supermarkets? Why not public transport?” Senator Horkan asked.
“If you want to participate in society, you need to be vaccinated,” the senator stated, saying that those who do not want to participate should stay at home.
“You’re putting the rest of us at risk, and you’re putting the economy at risk,” he continued.
In the same sitting, Senator Martin Conway of Fine Gael, another coalition party, also questioned why restrictions against the unvaccinated had yet to be expanded further.
The senator claimed that the “vaccination infrastructure” that had been built by the Irish government was not yet being used “to its optimum” and that he “really believed that the covid certificate should be used far more widely”.
“I cannot understand why the covid certificate isn’t required for access to gyms, hairdressers, hotels, events and other such events that take place around the country (sic),” the senator said.
“I want to see government come out in the next few days with an increased use of the covid certificate that the amount of Irish people, at 95%, have bought into,” Senator Conway demanded, seemingly in reference to the per cent of Ireland’s adult population who are vaccinated.
The current restrictions against unvaccinated individuals in Ireland had been set to expire on October 9th, but the measures were extended, initially to October 22nd, and then again after that, this time with no clear end date.
The Irish government had also come under fire earlier in the year for a months-long ban on all religious services, bar weddings and funerals, a measure referred to as “draconian” by one Catholic archbishop within the country.”
The worst for last. How about making students wear a yellow badge to show that they are exempt from wearing a mask? You would think that these authorities would know a little history and at least have changed the colour of the star!
“A parenting campaign group has criticised the “deeply inappropriate” request from a school for pupils to wear a “yellow badge” to show they are exempt from wearing a mask, with many making a comparison to the yellow stars forced upon Jewish people in Nazi-occupied Europe.
Allison Pearson from The Telegraph had circulated last week excerpts of an email from the headmaster of Farringtons School in Chiselhurst, Kent, advising parents that children who are exempt from wearing a mask in school should wear a “yellow badge” to identify themselves. The email prompted the journalist to ask “does the school have teachers who know their history?” as well as dozens of responses to the tweet with members of the public seeing the comparison to the forcing of Jewish people wearing stars in Nazi-occupied Europe so they could be identified and singled out for discrimination.
In a follow-up investigation by the newspaper on Tuesday, the contents of the email from the boarding school — which with fees up to £34,050, one would assume likely employs some of the more capable teachers in the country — confirmed that the school was enforcing a mask policy and that those who are exempt from covering their faces “should wear a yellow badge to indicate this”.
Farringtons School headmaster David Jackson wrote to parents: “In light of the increase in the number of cases, we have also decided to re-introduce the compulsory wearing of face masks in classrooms and other confined areas within the senior school, such as corridors.”
“Those pupils who were exempt from wearing a mask last academic year will once again be exempt and should wear a yellow badge to indicate this,” Mr Jackson added.
The school responded to the outrage after the letter was leaked online, saying that they were “horrified” such a parallel with the Nazi yellow star was drawn, but that “no offence was intended”.
A Farrington School spokesman told The Telegraph: “The rationale for introducing a badge for mask exempt pupils is so that they are not repeatedly challenged about not wearing a mask. On walking down a corridor, a teacher can immediately see that a mask is not required and therefore the wearing of a badge was intended to make it easier for those pupils.
“The badge was chosen after looking at the government advice about exemption from face-covering badges. This has a yellow circle and so we went for a yellow badge rather than producing a specially designed one. No offence was intended and we are horrified that any such parallel should be drawn.”
Parenting campaigner Molly Kingsley from UsForThem told the newspaper that the yellow badge was “deeply inappropriate” and it should “not need explaining” to educators why yellow badges should not be used to single people out, saying: “This has historic connotations which are deeply uncomfortable for many people.”
Ms Kingsley also revealed that “unbelievably this specific example of asking them to wear a yellow badge is not in isolation”.
Kent MP Craig Mackinlay called the story “completely bizarre”, telling talkRADIO’s Julia Hartley-Brewer on Wednesday that there are “obvious similarities, the clean and the unclean. It is just mad.”
Media reported earlier this year of supermarket security guards in England calling the police on a man, who said he was disabled and mask-exempt, who refused to wear a yellow sticker signalling he was not required to wear a mask.
The incident happened in February when mask-wearing in supermarkets was still mandatory and security guards had taken to demanding shoppers mask-up, prove they were exempt, or even be banned from shopping. While exemption markers were not required by law, Morrisons’ policy demanded at the time the wearing of a sticker, “so that colleagues and customers inside the store are aware that the customer is medically exempt.”
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