Posted on 07/04/2021 2:39:30 PM PDT by Right Wing Vegan
The number of people who don't turn up to their Covid vaccination appointment in Germany is increasing, leading to politicians from the government to start discussing the possibility of fines for people who make an appointment but don't show up.
Politicians from the governing SPD and CDU/CSU parties have called for fines for people who fail to attend their Covid vaccination appointments.
“It would be right if there were a penalty for those who don’t even cancel their appointment,” SPD health expert Karl Lauterbach told the Bild am Sonntag.
No shows at vaccine centres mean “that we vaccinate slower than we could and that we have to throw away doses,” Lauterbach said.
Lauterbach, who is a trained doctor, said that he knows the problem first hand from his work at the Leverkusen vaccination centre.
The deputy chairman of the CDU/CSU parliamentary group, Thorsten Frei, agreed.
Frei said that not turning up to an appointment was inconsiderate and a slap in the face of all those who were still waiting for an appointment.
“Anyone who is too selfish to pick up the phone or cancel an appointment with just a few clicks should have to pay for the cancellation costs incurred,” he said.
Head of the Berlin Red Cross (DRK), Mario Czaja, initiated the debate and proposed fines of €25 to €30 euros. He says that five to ten percent of appointments are now not being kept at Berlin’s vaccination centres.
A variety of factors are suspected to explain why people don’t turn up for an appointment.
Some people are likely to be on vacation, others may no longer consider the risk of an infection to be so high, or others have in the meantime received an appointment with a company doctor or in a GP’s practice.
Opposition politicians and some doctors’ representatives said that incentives rather than punishments were the better option.
Health spokeswoman for the liberal FDP, Christine Aschenberg-Dugnus, said that fines could deter people from getting a jab against the disease.
“Better would be more mobile vaccination teams, which educate and vaccinate people close to their homes. Vaccination incentives could also help,” she said.
After months of shortages of vaccine doses, supply now outweighs demand, the government said recently. Germany therefore believes it will be able to vaccinate everyone who wants a vaccination by the end of July.
Making an appointment and skipping it is pretty rude ... even for a German!
this isn’t forced vaccination. it is criminalizing being as a$$hat, though.
The interesting point is that demand must be dropping pretty fast for this to be a problem.
What in the wide wide world of sports is going on there!?
Looks like the Germans are having “Oh Crap” moments.
People who have never seen blonde hair before. It used to be very common in areas where everybody has black hair and dark eyes.
Mein Gott!
The moral of the story: don’t schedule an innoculation.
Tell them you received yours and you must have lost all my paperwork
LOL OK
I didn’t know what to make of that.
I worked in Red China for a half year Fall 1976 to Spring 1977. At the time, there had only been 10,000 westerners in China since the Communist revolution in 1949. Every where we went, the Chinese would show up to see the “long noses” from the West. They didn’t stroke the blond women’s hair (we had a few wives of the construction managers on the sites), but we were all pretty much animals in the zoo to them. It was SO weird.
Rape by migrants
My town in Spain is having an open vaccination day today from 8am until 4pm. Before that you had to make an appointment based upon your age and whether or not you were part of the Spanish national health system.
Alrighty then!
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