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Vaccine passports to snow ski: Popular destination goes full Big Brother 'We have developed strict rules for a safe winter'
wnd.com ^ | 9/20/2021 | Harry Wilmerding

Posted on 09/21/2021 8:58:25 AM PDT by rktman

Austria is set to implement “strict” mask rules and COVID-19 passes on ski lifts amid attempts to attract foreign tourists for the first time in two years, Reuters reported Monday.

Skiers will be required to wear masks while using enclosed ski lifts and show proof of vaccination or a negative test when purchasing a ticket, according to Reuters.

“This year there will definitely be winter holidays in Austria,” Austria Tourism Minister Elizabeth Koestringer said, according to Reuters. “We have developed strict rules for a safe winter.”

Tourism makes up about 5% of Austria’s economic output, and it is still unclear how frequently unvaccinated visitors would have to present a negative test at hotels, according to Reuters.

The new COVID-19 rules will be different from earlier renditions, which kept ski resorts open but closed hotels to prevent foreign visitors, Reuters reported.

The new rules classify après-ski bars as nightclubs, according to Reuters. As intensive care units fill, current nightclub rules may change to the point where only allow fully vaccinated individuals may enter the clubs.

“There will no longer be après-ski as before the pandemic,” said Guenther Platter, the governor of Tyrol province — home to popular ski resorts — according to Reuters.

(Excerpt) Read more at wnd.com ...


TOPICS: Culture/Society; Foreign Affairs; Philosophy
KEYWORDS: austria; covid19; covidstooges; elizabethkoestringer; europe; europeanunion; guentherplatter; harrywilmerding; mandate; passports; reuters; skiers; sports; vaccine; vaccinemandate; vaccinemandates; vaccinepassport; vaccinepassports
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Achtung! " As intensive care units fill!" Uh, okay. Because we all know that frigid mountain air is a prime breeding ground for all manner of CONvid-19 variants. I wouldn't want to wish declining economics on anyone........
1 posted on 09/21/2021 8:58:25 AM PDT by rktman
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To: rktman

All of the places for my expat life are done from my original plans.

I think I’ll move to some little island in the tropics and be a bum. I’ll die of cancer or murdered for being a honky.


2 posted on 09/21/2021 9:02:50 AM PDT by EEGator
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” I wouldn’t want to wish declining economics on anyone........”

I would. Especially leftard economies. Let them go down in bankrupt flames big time.


3 posted on 09/21/2021 9:03:02 AM PDT by max americana (FIRED LEFTARD employees at our office every election since 2008 and enjoyed seeing them cry.)
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To: max americana

As Kirk put it “let them die”.


4 posted on 09/21/2021 9:06:39 AM PDT by wally_bert (I cannot be sure for certain, but in my personal opinion I am certain that I am not sure.)
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Forget skiing, I may have taken my last commercial flight yesterday.

If you still think I ought to take the so-called "vaccine" go watch the Project Veritas video.

You will have to access it via the "telegram" app, as YT and FB took it down.

5 posted on 09/21/2021 9:09:23 AM PDT by G Larry (Those destroying the Constitution must demonize those who would defend it.)
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To: rktman
Would anyone like to buy my dog?


6 posted on 09/21/2021 9:09:55 AM PDT by JonPreston (Q: Never have so many, been so wrong, so often)
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To: wally_bert

Freepers are just damn soft. I dont get this “I wouldnt wish to my worst enemy..” crap.


7 posted on 09/21/2021 9:12:24 AM PDT by max americana (FIRED LEFTARD employees at our office every election since 2008 and enjoyed seeing them cry.)
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To: wally_bert

Yep!
Let them die and die poor.


8 posted on 09/21/2021 9:15:06 AM PDT by Zathras
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To: max americana

As far as our enemies, I don’t think Austria is high on our list. In fact, I would say they’re behind all of Africa, South America, Central America, and a large chunk of Asia.


9 posted on 09/21/2021 9:16:54 AM PDT by EEGator
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To: rktman

Because everyone knows covid can survive in minus 20 while breathed out on some ski lift.


10 posted on 09/21/2021 9:20:03 AM PDT by BiglyCommentary
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They will not be safe. Huge spread coming, no matter weather vaxed or not.

They need to have drug therapy, Ivermectin is best.


11 posted on 09/21/2021 9:20:56 AM PDT by Candor7 ((Obama Fascism:http://www.americanthinker.com/2009/05/barack_obama_the_quintessentia_1.html) )
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To: G Larry

Yup. Flying days are done. Been where I needed to go, don’t need to go back. 😷💉🔥🐂💩


12 posted on 09/21/2021 9:21:59 AM PDT by rktman (Destroy America from within? Check! WTH? Enlisted USN 1967 to end up with this? 😕)
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Well, then, there’s always Utah.


13 posted on 09/21/2021 9:27:33 AM PDT by Seruzawa ("The Political left is the Garden of Eden of incompetence" - Marx the Smarter (Groucho))
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To: JonPreston

Actually been to Saint Bernard pass. When we went the last litter was about five weeks old. Due to the advent of GPS trackers being used the monks were no longer going to breed them. Woof!


14 posted on 09/21/2021 9:27:34 AM PDT by rktman (Destroy America from within? Check! WTH? Enlisted USN 1967 to end up with this? 😕)
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We have about six ski areas within an hour of the house. Now, if my back and knees were able to deal with it. 🙌


15 posted on 09/21/2021 9:30:09 AM PDT by rktman (Destroy America from within? Check! WTH? Enlisted USN 1967 to end up with this? 😕)
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You joined the Nav the same year I did.


16 posted on 09/21/2021 9:31:05 AM PDT by Seruzawa ("The Political left is the Garden of Eden of incompetence" - Marx the Smarter (Groucho))
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“And now was acknowledged the presence of the Red Death. He had come like a thief in the night. And one by one dropped the revellers in the blood-bedewed halls of their revel, and died each in the despairing posture of his fall. And the life of the ebony clock went out with that of the last of the gay. And the flames of the tripods expired. And Darkness and Decay and the Red Death held illimitable dominion over all.”

The Masque of the Red Death - Poe


17 posted on 09/21/2021 9:33:44 AM PDT by Flick Lives (We may or may not have reached herd immunity, but we've definitely achieved herd stupidity.)
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To: rktman

Bet the glitterati won’t be forced to comply.


18 posted on 09/21/2021 9:33:46 AM PDT by mewzilla (Those aren't masks. They're muzzles. )
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I saw people swimming in the ocean with surgical masks on last year.


19 posted on 09/21/2021 9:40:50 AM PDT by outpostinmass2 (Y)
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The mountain air may not be all it is suppose to be. Check this out. https://www.brighteon.com/00400916-7b34-4d94-b584-38364bc993e7


20 posted on 09/21/2021 9:43:40 AM PDT by Maudeen (https://thereishopeinJesus. Our ONLY hope! NORMAL ISN'T COMING BACK . . . BUT JESUS IS!)
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