[The Pulse]: Germany will most likely be joining Austria in implementing a mandatory vaccination requirement for their citizens. Earlier this month, Chancellor Angela Merkel and her successor Olaf Scholz barred the unvaccinated from access to all but essential businesses like grocery stores, pharmacies and banks. At that time, they also requested an ethics committee to draft legislation to make vaccination mandatory. The measure will be debated and voted on in February at the latest.
Starting in February citizens in Austria could face a fine of 3600 Euros every three months and possible jail time if they don’t comply. This however will be hard to enforce given the fact that there are approximately two million people who are not “fully vaccinated.”
Greece has also implemented mandatory vaccination requirements for people over the age of 60. Citizens who don’t comply will be required to pay a monthly fine.
Robb Butler, executive director for World Health Organization (WHO) Europe, has expressed his opinion that countries need to have a healthy debate around mandating vaccines for all. This is exactly what’s happening now.
In Indonesia, all adults will face fines or refusal of social assistance or government services for not being vaccinated. Micronesia, Tajikistan and Turkmenistan have also implemented mandatory vaccination requirements for the citizenry.
Throughout this pandemic, health authorities have claimed that vaccines will never be forced upon the the citizenry, yet it’s happened in indirect coercive ways. Telling someone they cannot work and put food on the table or travel unless they get vaccinated is not much of a choice, and forcing citizens to pay fines and/or face jail time doesn’t leave much of a choice either.
It is to be noted that COVID vaccination efforts do not stop the spread of COVID nor protect people from being infected. They have been shown, in some cases, to reduce the severity of symptoms for a period of time. Essentially, one is protecting themselves, if that, for a short period of time from severe COVID and possible death but not really doing much to “benefit the whole.” The Pfizer 6 month data actually shows that Pfizer’s COVID-19 inoculations cause more illness than they prevent....<<<Read More>>>....