To avoid a tough winter and stem a rise in Covid cases, the outgoing German Chancellor is keen to activate the country’s ‘3G’ rule, which would introduce vaccine passports for most indoor public venues, in an attempt to entice members of the public to receive the jab. 33% of the German population currently remain unvaccinated, with the Health Minister Jens Spahn commenting that the nation is suffering from a “pandemic of the unvaccinated”. The Times has the story.
The chancellor has argued that similar steps should be adopted across the country in an effort to boost the stubbornly low level of vaccination and slow the spread of Covid.
Concern is growing about the prospect of another punishing winter. The number of infections recorded each day has doubled since mid-October and is higher now than it was at this point in 2020. Hospitals in many parts of Germany have warned they could soon be overwhelmed.
The situation is not yet desperate: vaccination has so far kept the number of deaths reported each day relatively low. The closely watched seven-day incidence rate has actually fallen a little over the past week, to 147 new cases per 100,000 people.
Today, however, Jens Spahn, the Health Minister, warned that Germany was going through a “pandemic of the unvaccinated” as the disease propagates rapidly through the 33% of the population that has yet to be jabbed. Merkel is said to have been “particularly shaken” by the case of a nursing home in Werbellinsee, near Berlin, where 14 residents died. Half of the staff had not been vaccinated.
The chancellor favours tightening the country’s ‘3G’ rule, under which people must prove they are vaccinated, recovered or tested (geimpft, genesen or getestet) in order to enter most indoor public venues.
Yesterday, Saxony imposed a stricter ‘2G’ system, meaning only the vaccinated and the recently recovered can go into spaces such as restaurants or football stadiums. Merkel’s spokesman said this was a “logical” way forward.
In Baden-Württemberg, meanwhile, unvaccinated people will instead have to obtain a negative PCR test result — at considerable expense — for these recreational activities. They will also only be allowed to meet five other unvaccinated people from outside their household at the same time.
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Some people need to be locked in a room , until they can satisfactorily explain the ‘invisible hand’, as defined by Adam Smith……and if they can’t …throw the key away…for all our sakes.
For advice on vehicle propulsion, consult a motor mechanic; for home heating, consult a heating engineer; to see the climate yarn for what it is, engage critical faculties.
IPCC economist Ottmar Edenhofer (among numerous others) gave the game away ahead of COP-16 in 2010:
“One has to free oneself from the illusion that international climate policy is environmental policy. Instead, climate change policy is about how we redistribute de facto the world’s wealth.”
Eleven days until the Inauguration and counting. Stand by for the bonfire of the inanities.
Yup, the wealth is stacking up in the vaults of the wealthy and the public sector. I fail to see any improvements in the lot of the working classes
Double heist. Milk the climate fallacy for all it’s worth and take from the taxpayer to enrich the rich and pander to the public sector.
Who will play Robin Hood, who will be Little John and who will be Maid Marion? Any number of Sheriffs of Nottingham abound…
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Huc04P4rTnM
…They don’t make ’em like that any more.
Who? Blackrock!
We Hope
Many of the petrol/diesel (ICE) cars currently on the road can easily be kept going for 10-15 years with some care and good maintenance. The question is will TPTB allow this to happen? Will they sit by and watch while a resourceful public keep their elderly ICE cars chugging along for years to come? Or will we see an increasing range of measures to ‘drive’ ICE cars off the road?
I don’t think politicians have even thought about the hit on national productivity. Imagine the millions of people who spend their hard earned money in running an ICE car, so they can get to work. This will be at all times of the day, well away from public transport networks.
EVs are just not an option for millions. The economy would grind to a halt overnight. The Government (as it is finding out) can’t beat the markets.
At one level the hit on productivity is very basic, many staff have now been issued with Electric Vans for work and I saw a clip the other day of a guy who was being paid to spend an hour a day sitting in his van while it charged at a public charging station.
I genuinely believe this government are quite happy at the prospect of the economy grinding to a halt. On fact I would go further – that is their intention. Probably followed by some sort of martial law. It’s not as if they haven’t imported an army for the purpose, suitably dispersed around the country.
I think that’s too far. Any Force (Military, Police etc) takes a huge amount of organisation and requires clear leadership. I haven’t seen any evidence of any such arrangements.
I also think that even Labour (imbeciles that they obviously are) wouldn’t wish to stop the economy. If they did, they have no control levers left. They wouldn’t last a week.
A slow demolition seems to be what they want, so they can build back better. Whoever came up with “you will own nothing etc, it was on the WEF website so must’ve been sanctioned at the highest level.
I think you grant them an intelligence that is hundreds of times greater than that which they possess. Occam’s Razor is best applied in all cases.
That’s why the Globalists prefer Stakeholder Capitalism.
will we see an increasing range of measures to ‘drive’ ICE cars off the road?
I think we will. But the consequences will so so disastrous that a government backdown will happen.
There will be all sorts of measures but the big one will be when Petrol Garages get phased out ! Lots of motorway forecourts have strange owners now, not BP or Shell , a bit like when a shop chain pulls out of a town & small independents try to carry on !
Well in the old days that was all there was. Heard about the profits of the big blue chip supermarkets today. All good when you have a monopoly on the food chain.
They have been for decades.
See video above/below….Geoff recons they will try and tax old cars into oblivion.
One thing we clearly learned from covid is that there is really no limit to the damage the establishment is willing to do to get its way when it is determined to do so.
Look at the carnage the created in the economy, in people’s rights, in standards of basic human decency. They did not hesitate to destroy it all in pursuit of their goals. (Whether you believe they were well meaning or not is irrelevant)
So anyone hoping to see a course correction on cars and Net Zero on the basis of the damage it is creating is going to be bitterly disappointed.
Will Reform save the day if we can hang on. As Clarkson said, then this shower of sh!t will be over.
How Agenda 2030 impacts car values: Geoff buys Cars
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VLsMMvz3yHw