Posted on 08/29/2021 6:51:19 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
Russian President Vladimir Putin says that while people need to get vaccinated to "overcome this pandemic," nobody's job should be on the line if they refuse.
Speaking last weekend during a meeting with the governing United Russia party ahead of next month's parliamentary elections, Putin said "We need to do everything we can to overcome this pandemic," adding "and the best tool we have in this fight is vaccination."
"Vaccination is the main weapon against the spread of the virus. Importantly, no one should be forced to get a jab. Pressure, where people may lose their jobs, is even less acceptable. People must be convinced of the need to get the vaccine," he said.
"This must be done persistently and respectfully. People should be convinced of the need to get vaccinated in order to save their lives and health, and to protect their loved ones."
Russian President Vladimir Putin has recently come out against forcing citizens in Russia to get vaccinated through coercion, particularly through threatening their employment.
Victorian Premier Daniel Andrews on the other hand... pic.twitter.com/DfY8E3IWDw — real Rukshan (@therealrukshan) August 29, 2021
As Russian state-funded RT notes, "On Friday, Russian Health Minister Mikhail Murashko announced that more than 43 million people have had one of the country’s four domestically made coronavirus vaccines. However, this number, he said, “is not enough yet” and “we will feel safer when the number of people who have protection against infection reaches more than 80%.” At present, close to one in four Russians has been immunized against the virus, and it is unclear how many more may have developed antibodies after being infected with the virus across the nation."
Putin's comments appear to be at odds with official policy throughout several sectors of the Russian economy. In Moscow, for example, "companies in industries such as hospitality, leisure and transport must demonstrate that 60% of their staff have been vaccinated or else face hefty fines. Officials have confirmed that businesses can send home employees without pay if they refuse, in order to meet the quotas."
Amazing.
Ironic...
Remind me once again why we are supposed to hate Putin?
Can we swap?
Explain to me again why we are called “the free world”?
Who said it?
Oh, well perhaps we should be a bit cautious in the administration of vaccines. It seems prudent!
Unbelievable, simply unbelievable as Ken Hutchinson would say.
It’s a sad day when the leader of Russia can have a more reasonable approach than other governments.
KGB he may have been, but Putin was not a young “social activist” in the ‘60s and ‘70s like the old, ridiculously-totalitarian Leftists (some of them billionaires) currently infesting our lives.
Our old hippies’ second childhoods have a body count.
Putin is an asshole but Russia is one of the few remaining countries whose banking system is not owned by the Rockefeller family.
When did things flip? We became the USSA and they became the United States of Russia.
What are you talking about?
Russia, you know, the place where they have freedom of choice./s
Never thought I’d see the day.
Even the Chinese have relented. China’s education minister says no to vaccine mandates for students in China. Could be because Sinovac and Sinopharm do not work well. Same goes for Sputnik V.
The ex KGB man is more protective of individual liberty than the US President.
Unless you criticize Biden, or feminism, or BLM, or woke viewpoints, or Fauci and CDC mandates, or abortion rights, or atheism and gender change propaganda forced on young school children, or say you think Covid came from WuHan in China as a bioweapon,-------you are sort of "free" within your restrictions from the leaders of Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, Google and the Dem Party.
Freedom, it's wonderful.
Good one. Sadly.
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