Austria has become the first country in Europe to make the Covid vaccine compulsory. From February 1st, all adults will be required to have the vaccine. Sky News has more.
The measure to make vaccination compulsory among the adult population will attract controversy, with Austria only the fourth country in the world to do so – after Indonesia, Micronesia and Turkmenistan.
[Chancellor Alexander Schallenberg] said: “Whipped up by radical anti-vaxxers, by fake news, too many among us didn’t get vaccinated. The results are overcrowded intensive care units and enormous suffering.”
He said the government therefore took “a very difficult decision… that we will quickly introduce a nationwide vaccine mandate” from 1 February.
The nation had already introduced a series of strict measures along with Germany and Slovakia in the weeks leading up to Christmas, as a debate intensifies over whether vaccines alone are enough to tackle coronavirus.
Around 66% of Austria’s population is fully vaccinated, one of the lowest rates in western Europe.
Its infection rate is among the highest in the continent, with a seven-day incidence of 971.5 per 100,000 people – and daily cases keep setting records.
The country of 8.9 million has reported more than 10,000 new infection cases daily, while hospitals have been overwhelmed with many new Covid patients and deaths have also been rising again.
The national lockdown will initially last for 10 days, after which the effects will be assessed and the measures extended to a maximum of 20 days if cases have not gone down enough.
Two states in Austria – Salzburg and Upper Austria – had already triggered a range of restrictions, with the rules extended to apply to vaccinated people and a full lockdown from next week that would see schools shut and a curfew imposed.
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Stop Press: BBC News has more on this story.
Stop Press 2: Austria’s opposition leader – Herbert Kickl, leader of the right-wing populist FPO party – has said the country is now a dictatorship. MailOnline has more.
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Why does Austria not know that countries who have vaxxed have the highest number of cases. Surely forcing the vaxx on people is against international law. Depopulation going well. Steve Kirsch today in a blog described how a German physician committed suicide because he did not want to participate in the genocide caused by the administration of the koolaid.. A horrific story. Steve also suggests children are now dying in the USA after the start of vaxxing 5-11 year olds. Also newborns, whose mothers were vaxxed, are dying due to cardiac conditions. Austria, are you sure you know better? I for one cannot imagine you do.
Have just watched a debate on Neil Oliver’s GB News programme between Alex Story a sportsman and journalist based in Salzburg and Professor Sally Cutler of the University of East London (I didn’t even realise such a place existed). Story covered all the ground about why the conditions of lockdown and the intention to mandate ‘vaccines’ are completely irrational and unethical. He also stated during the course of the discussion and in response to Cutler that he had seen the inside of Salzburg general hospital and it was completely empty.
Cutler is clearly a Communist of the ilk of Susan Michie. She was another one with a manic look on her face, ‘starey’ eyes and the constant smirk of a psychopath. She claimed that cases were surging out of control and the Austrians had no alternative but to act as they are doing to save lives. “Any one of the unvaccinated could be a risk to others and could well place pressures on the already overwhelmed health service if they fell ill”.
Story pointed out that anyone who is healthy and not obese is in very little danger of being hospitalised but this clearly fell on deaf ears.… Read more »
Austria has a prison capacity of about 8600 and is about 95% full. There are approximately 3,000,000 un-jabbed. Exactly who are they going to lock up and where? It is fearmongering – do not comply, there is nothing they can do about it – bring the totalitarians down.
Said Chancellor Not-Very-Bright about his 66% vaccinated country:
too many… didn’t get vaccinated. The results are overcrowded intensive care units and enormous suffering
Whereas in the Netherlands, with 85% vaccinated, things are obviously going to be much better surely. Umm, not so much – they are down to their last 200 icu beds, and locking down.
So which interpretation of these events with regard to vaccine efficacy will our own not-very-bright Leaders go with, d’you think?
Where are the erstwhile shouty ‘civil rights’ organisations in all this? Not bought and paid for, surely?
How the fuck did we het here from three weeks to flatten the curve???
The simple question eluding the sheeple…
You can just imagine a voice saying “We never thought we could get away with it, but then Austria did it and we knew, then, we could”
God help us all – a jab that is minimally effective at reducing severe symptoms, has no effect on transmission, does not prevent infection, is harmful both in the delivery system and the inducement of a toxic substance, the spike protein, directed towards the S 1 version of the Alpha and not the Delta variant, the longer term effects of the jab on the immune system – initial indications are very troubling – and major organs remains unknown, recently shown to be massively harmful to pregnant women within the first 20 weeks of pregnancy – if this becomes “mandatory: in the UK.
Some early treatment drugs are being not allowed in favour of this – “why?”
If you did not realise the malevolent intention of the political elite – Austria should relieve you of that illusion, permanently.
Why on this earth would any person of integrity or ethical standpoint consider it ever to be acceptable to force a product on a population, knowing it does not work. For me that is… Read more »
Does Austria have any kind of government information service so that people can see that there are more jabbed than UNjabbed in hospitals?
If so, no doubt most people won’t read the figures, but just rely on their equivalent of the BBC. Though, judging by the size of the protests, many are on to the truth.
Until last month the Chancellor of Austria was Sebastian Kurz, a WEF member. Look out for Germany (Merkel), France (Macron), Canda (Trudeau) and NZ (Adern) all WEF members or graduates to follow suit. Klaus SPECTRE Schwab will be stroking his white cat with more vigour than usual.
As I said here recently…Hands up anyone who can tell me where Adolf Hitler was born and spent his formative years.
Austrians had better start climbing those mountains again ……to escape their Fascist State.
The vital question: What % of those hospitalised and dying are vaccinated?
Why wasn’t this OUTRAGE the lead story today? This news is what we all feared, and it marks a ratcheting up of what we (but not the Daily Sceptic) see as the AGENDA.
Austria has the 4th highest rate of testing in the world!! It’s a testdemic surely?! Ten tests per capita…
Good, if depressing, report from the Austrian front line here:
https://eugyppius.substack.com/p/martin-lichtmesz-on-the-dystopic?token=eyJ1c2VyX2lkIjozMTI1NDUwNiwicG9zdF9pZCI6NDQyODg3NDcsIl8iOiJaTXJRTSIsImlhdCI6MTYzNzM5NTczMiwiZXhwIjoxNjM3Mzk5MzMyLCJpc3MiOiJwdWItMjY4NjIxIiwic3ViIjoicG9zdC1yZWFjdGlvbiJ9.CASKr67MD2uev8oaY3ERfwbcoa63WV2obhPGU0TJAoM
Covid Crusher: Mix one heaped teaspoon of Iodine table or sea salt in a mug of warm clean water, cup a hand and sniff or snort the entire mugful up your nose, spitting out anything which comes down into your mouth. If sore, then you have a virus, so continue morning noon and night, or more often if you want, until the soreness goes away (2-3 minutes) then blow out your nose and flush away, washing your hands afterwards, until when you do my simple cure, you don’t have any soreness at all, when you flush – job done. Also swallow a couple of mouthfuls of salt water and if you have burning in your lungs, salt killing virus and pneumonia there too.
My simple salt water cure, kills all Coronaviruses and viruses, as soon as you think you have an infection, or while self isolating, before the viruses mutate into the disease in your head and body, for which there is no cure.
The proof of the pudding is in the eating, so try it on yourself and see how efficient it is to keep you safe from Coronavirus and thus Covid so no vaccines necessary!!
Richard
Hitler was born in and came from Austria – seems like what goes around, comes around, if rather late in happening
How ironic that the nation which spawned Adolph Hitler should become the first European domino to fall in the fight to fend off compulsory Big Pharma frankenjabs.
More will surely topple so long as we are conned into accepting “cases”, rather than death rates, as the litmus test of the threat posed by the latest “deadly” virus. At the last count, the daily COVID fatality rate in Austria stood at 48 – out of a population of around ten million!
Two more salient facts politicians and media like to keep quiet: 1 The vast majority of us will never get the wretched virus, 2 Those who do have a better than 99 percent chance of a full recoveery.
We need to wake up to what is really going on. The fascistic shenanigans in Austria and elsewhere are a foretaste of worse to come as the globalist Great Reset is rolled out on the back of the shamdemic.
Everywhere they trot out the line that the hospitals are overwhelmed really? I do not know the figures for Austria? but in the UK to my mind the NHS was never and has never been overwhelmed, it has been shown up for being an inadequate service incapable of using traditional medical approaches to dealing with a respiratory disease, when as a damp temperate country on the western edge of Europe, respiratory disease is very likely.
In 1950 there were 28,000 UK people in TB sanatoriums, in 1957/58 when I was a boy in North London there was a major flu outbreak, many people died but as I recall everybody pitched in we did our best helped each other out and just carried on until it went away.
The appalling inhuman and totalitarian approach that we are now seeing to covid seems to be borne out of a whole complex of factors. On the one hand there is stupidity, ignorance, a desire for the unattainable simple one shot solution to a complex problem, political arrogance, incompetence and insecurity and a failure of complex techno modern medicine to cope with a simple traditional respiratory disease, on the other hand there is sinister… Read more »
The dictionary doesn’t have words dark enough to describe my feelings. Austria’s actions and plans are so very wrong.
And in Austria we have the Adolf variant – by Rudolph Rigger – Riggery Pokery (substack.com)
We here witness the birth of the Fourth Reich.
A close friend with a history degree who thesis was on 1930s Germany can’t see it, such is his brain so washed I guess and no doubt his inability to realise he’s probably made a huge mistake (I assume he’s had his dose or three). Another ‘blue-pill’ victim sadly.
Hospitals in USA and in first world countries are refusing life-saving Ivermectin treatment even with court orders. Big Pharma doing everything they can to jab us no matter what, while alternative COVID cures EXIST! There happens to be heavy censorship who are looking for these treatments. The Research Is Clear: Ivermectin Is a Safe, Effective Treatment for COVID. Get your Ivermectin today while you still can! https://ivmpharmacy.com
Hungary’s Orban is at it now.. this is getting beyond the pale.. they’re all bought off..
https://www.rt.com/news/540801-orban-hungary-anti-vaccination-covid-warning/
“…PM Viktor Orban has said, stating that even the most hardline anti-vaxxers will ultimately face a choice between dying with the virus and getting a jab.”
Sounds like a threat to me. Not sure whether these are his words or RT’s: “with the virus”, not from. I imagine internment camps, in which everyone will be (falsely) deemed as have a positive pcr test result until they agree to vaccination. These fascist pigs need overthrowing before they do any more harm. Otherwise this will be the new normal, folks.
Putin has come out of the closet too saying the same thing. The whole East v West thing is an illusion. These people have been conspiring for decades on what we are all experiencing now..
Yep, looks like it. I don’t plan on being fooled again.
Yes.. he had me fooled for a while. Being built up as the great statesman that.. if only our leaders were like him. Unfortunately there’s still a lot of the so called alternative media that are treating as such.
The thing is who are the people running a good deal of the alternative media.. we just don’t know do we. It could be the security services for all we know..
An awful lot of ‘conspiracy theorists’ must now be sighing, “I told you so”.
Not that this will stop them ending up in the same leaky boat as the rest of us.
But if only more of us had listened. . .
https://b2b.austria.info/uk/
E-mail address at bottom.
Why doesn’t tomorrow’s protest in London head down to the Austrian Embassy?
There is simply not room in Austria’s prison to bang up 3.1 million unjabbed!
https://hugotalks.com/2021/11/19/austrian-bluff-hugo-talks-lockdown/
What the hell has just happened to Europe? Anyone would think these state leaders had all just got together and agreed to start the next phase of the great reset. (Oh hang on, didn’t they all meet up at COP26 recently?)
This is what happens when people do their shopping in Lidl and Aldi – they’re giving British money to Germany.
No idea what your comment has to do with mine.
4-weeks in prison – are we being serious? There are around 10,000 people housed in Austria’s 28 prisons.
There are 3.6M unvaccinated Austrians. If around 0.2% of those souls were imprisoned to encourage them to do the ‘right’ thing the prison population would increase 180% in 4-weeks. That’s over 28.8k! You might want to do the math, but you get the idea!.
Good luck with that one Herr Battenberg.
Of course, one could re-commission Mauthausen in northern Austria – along with 3 or 4 others the names of which escape me.
Time to revisit the lessons learned by the Greenham women . They had to face a very great deal of state sponsored hostility .
This is from Morgoth’s Review, unfortunately he is right, the rich and power control the ‘justice’ system. Still don’t give in, the technocratic slave society the technocratic elite are bringing in is like death to anyone but the soulless zombies that surround us.
“I wish people would shut up about the ”Nuremburg Code” it isn’t going to be implemented because the only people with the influence and power to implement it are the very people forcing you to take the vaccines.
The original trials were themselves a farce and nothing more than a way to usher in a new post-war order, but first a war had to be fought and won because Nazis weren’t going to put themselves on trial for their lives any more than the architects of the scamdemic will put themselves, or allow themselves, to be put on trial.
People have been saturated in liberalism for so long that they think there’s some sort of Deux Ex Enlightenment God going to swoop in and save them, wrong, like any other system liberalism relies on raw power.
People may wince at this, but I’m afraid it’s a hard cold reality, it isn’t about ”rights” and ”laws” it comes… Read more »
Yup, that’s how it works, whether the power comes from a dictator’s loyal army/police force or an armed mob on the street, they are those who are making the law. The point of ordinary citizens allowing/disallowing this is moot when those same citizens themselves have no power. And the power comes from (threat) of violent behavior. It always has, it always will be.
Serious question: is this legal?
No it isnt. Here is the analysis from senior UK Lawyer Anna De Buisseret:
Anna De Buisseret’s Advice to Care Workers & NHS Staff: Don’t Quit
https://www.bitchute.com/video/LkjoZzVCm286/
Anna De Buisseret – Covid Legal Action Is Happening. We Are Going to Win this.
https://www.bitchute.com/video/ZyIYaICiIg6I/
“Mandatory Vaccination & International Law” interview with UK’s Senior Lawyer Anna de Buisseret
https://www.bitchute.com/video/mGOkpsIjtpLO/