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A deadly new covid wave in Europe is met by popular fury over lockdowns
Economist ^ | November 22, 2021 | staff

Posted on 11/22/2021 5:13:23 PM PST by xxqqzz

THE SIGHT of 40,000 unvaccinated Austrians marching through their capital, Vienna, in recent days was troubling twice over. The tightly packed opponents of pandemic lockdown measures were at risk of spreading the coronavirus. They also threatened to stir up an already tense political situation. Karl Nehammer, Austria’s interior minister, warned that anti-vaxxers in the Alpine republic are growing ever more radicalised. He called their demonstration “incensed” and “aggressive”. Some protesters were provocative in the extreme, carrying placards likening Alexander Schallenberg, Austria’s new chancellor, to Josef Mengele, the sadistic physician at the Nazi concentration camp in Auschwitz. A few wore Judensterne, the yellow badges that the Nazi regime forced Jewish citizens to wear, with the inscription “unvaccinated” instead of “Jew”.

The protesters marched against Austria’s increasingly tough measures against anti-vaxxers. On November 22nd the government imposed a full lockdown once again, to last for ten days, which compels Austria’s 9m people to hunker down at home, leaving only for work, essential shopping and exercise. Officials urged those who can do so to work from home. Those in the workplace must be vaccinated, certified immune through recovery or tested daily. Though schools will remain open, parents have been urged to keep their children at home when they can. Austria is also the first Western democracy to make covid-19 vaccinations mandatory for all, starting on February 1st 2022. “For a long time—maybe too long—I and others assumed that it must be possible to convince people in Austria to voluntarily get vaccinated,” said Mr Schallenberg when he announced his “very difficult” decision. So the voluntary option is to end.

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KEYWORDS: austria; covid; lockdown; protests
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It sounds dangerous having so many unvaccinated people close together. I guess it is time for the voluntary option to end.
1 posted on 11/22/2021 5:13:23 PM PST by xxqqzz
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New deadly wave = vaxx don’t work.


2 posted on 11/22/2021 5:15:35 PM PST by circlecity
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Please say you are being facetious.

I despise the tone of the excerpted paragraph to start. Not biased at all!


3 posted on 11/22/2021 5:16:37 PM PST by the OlLine Rebel (Common sense is an uncommon virtue./Federal-run medical care is as good as state-run DMVs.)
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Haven't you heard about the deadly "superspreader" infections in the USA coming out of full football stadiums and full hockey and basketball arenas?

Me neither.

4 posted on 11/22/2021 5:17:35 PM PST by colorado tanker
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The “deadly wave” is medicofacist tyranny.


5 posted on 11/22/2021 5:18:46 PM PST by lightman (I am a binary Trinitarian. Deal with it!)
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Wow these lock downs seem to really work....lets keep doing them....that will flatten the curve


6 posted on 11/22/2021 5:19:06 PM PST by Archie Bunker on steroids (You may not take an interest in politics, but politics takes an interest in you "Pericles" )
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Need to chill things down? Just announce a new outbreak and lock ‘em down. They have been programmed to obey.


7 posted on 11/22/2021 5:21:29 PM PST by bigbob
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Powerful David Icke Interview: “They are Purging Humanity, There is Nothing Left to Lose”

https://banned.video/watch?id=619bf08a39ec2f5f01bf2f9c


8 posted on 11/22/2021 5:23:37 PM PST by waterhill (Banned.video)
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“Deadly new wave” = Delta variant. The Delta variant will cause the various national populations to achieve herd immunity (despite the governmental ignoramuses best efforts to prevent that outcome) and reduce COVID-19 to endemic status. Florida is a prime example and is in the final stages of achieving herd immunity.

Natural immunity abounds in the Sunshine State.


9 posted on 11/22/2021 5:24:31 PM PST by House Atreides
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10 posted on 11/22/2021 5:24:33 PM PST by RomanSoldier19 (Game over, man! Game over! ; : rem ad triarios redisse is)
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It occurs to me that IF there are malicious intentions behind the fake vax the game plan is more indirect than previously thought.

Rather than have the vax damage/kill people directly it instead wrecks the immune system and makes covid (as well as a host of other things) more dangerous. “Oh look, more people are getting sick and dying from covid, so we need more draconian measures”. Never mind that more of the sick are “vaxxed” rather than unvaxxed, the masses don’t need to know that.


11 posted on 11/22/2021 5:32:28 PM PST by ChildOfThe60s (If you can remember the 60s.....you weren't really there..)
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They want compliant slaves. This isn’t about a virus.


12 posted on 11/22/2021 5:34:18 PM PST by Trillian
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Haven’t you heard about the deadly “superspreader” infections in the USA coming out of full football stadiums and full hockey and basketball arenas?

China is still working on it.


13 posted on 11/22/2021 5:34:48 PM PST by Linda Frances (Woe to those who call evil good and good evil, who put darkness for light and light for darkness. )
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“For a long time—maybe too long—I and others assumed that it must be possible to convince people in Austria to voluntarily get vaccinated,” said Mr Schallenberg when he announced his “very difficult” decision. So the voluntary option is to end.

Mr. Schallenberk currently has 40,000 when getting the vaxx is voluntary.

He ends the voluntary option.

Guess how many unvaccinated Austrians will be marching through their capital, Vienna, then?

Answer - ALL of them.

I really don't understand what makes progs so stupid but over the years it is clear that they are dumb as rocks when attempting to anticipate the action - reaction of normal people.

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14 posted on 11/22/2021 5:44:23 PM PST by TLI (ITINERIS IMPENDEO VALHALLA)
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Natural immunity abounds in the Sunshine State.

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Maybe that’s why Nancz pelosi is moving to Florida.


15 posted on 11/22/2021 5:46:31 PM PST by Linda Frances (Woe to those who call evil good and good evil, who put darkness for light and light for darkness. )
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—> It sounds dangerous having so many unvaccinated people close together. I guess it is time for the voluntary option to end.

Surely you jest.

Every weekend in America we fill football stadiums with people with no restrictions 10,000, 50,000, 100,000 at a time.


16 posted on 11/22/2021 5:46:50 PM PST by aMorePerfectUnion (Fraud vitiates everything ᡕᠵ᠊ᡃ࡚ࠢ࠘ ⸝່ࠡࠣ᠊߯᠆ࠣ࠘ᡁࠣ࠘᠊᠊ࠢ࠘𐡏⁻ )
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“deadly”.

Be afraid citizen, so Government can protect you.

If kids weren’t so stupid, they would be burning cities down over this.

Its like they don’t care when Police have brutality to everyone, only when they have brutality to a certain minority.

Idiots.


17 posted on 11/22/2021 5:50:11 PM PST by UNGN
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Karl Nehammer, Austria’s interior minister, warned that anti-vaxxers in the Alpine republic are growing ever more radicalised. He called their demonstration “incensed” and “aggressive”.

I've noticed that Nazis don't like to be called Nazis.

18 posted on 11/22/2021 5:56:23 PM PST by seowulf (Civilization begins with order, grows with liberty, and dies with chaos...Will Durant)
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Correct.


19 posted on 11/22/2021 5:57:52 PM PST by Jet Jaguar (Fascists never think they’re the fascists.)
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“It sounds dangerous having so many unvaccinated people close together. I guess it is time for the voluntary option to end.”

A little known fact is that “unvaccinated” doesn’t mean “sick”, and it doesn’t mean “contagious”. In fact, if you run into an unvaccinated person on the street, it’s very, very likely that they are neither contagious nor the least bit sick at all.


20 posted on 11/22/2021 6:00:09 PM PST by rightwingcrazy (;-,)
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