Last September, Switzerland introduced a vaccine passport scheme prohibiting the unjabbed from entering many public places such as restaurants, sporting events, and cinemas. On Sunday, the Swiss people took part in a referendum on whether to keep the Government’s Covid response measures, which includes the vaccine mandate, with 60% of the public voting to retain the restrictions. BBC News has more.
Sunday’s referendum came after organisers said the pass was an unnecessary restriction of freedoms.
With just under two-thirds of the population fully vaccinated, the Swiss have one of the lowest vaccination rates in Western Europe.
Now, Covid infections are rising exponentially, with case numbers up by 40-50% each week.
From the start of the pandemic the Swiss government has performed a tricky balancing act, trying to introduce measures to control the spread of Covid while still staying true to Switzerland’s system of direct democracy, in which the Government has little formal power and the people have the final say.
Switzerland’s lockdowns were never as strict as its neighbours’. People were allowed outside for exercise whenever they wanted and the schools only closed for a few weeks.
But last summer, with cases falling dramatically, Switzerland didn’t have a celebratory, U.K.-style ‘freedom’ day either.
Instead, a Covid certificate was introduced with proof of vaccination, negative test, or immunity through having had the virus. In September it became obligatory in order to enter bars, cafes, restaurants, cinemas, museums, sporting events, and face-to-face university classes.
But not everyone agrees.
Vaccination has long been a sensitive issue here, especially in German-speaking Switzerland. A belief that natural immunity is best led to a drop in childhood measles vaccinations that sparked a surge in measles cases across Europe.
Meanwhile, in the alpine communities, a historic pride in their own independence rooted, some say, in the time when the mountain villages were cut off from the world each winter, means there is resistance to the Government issuing orders.
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Loving this woman’s 5 minute speech. You go girl!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QsBSt5SuYOk&ab_channel=Kellie-JayKeen
Just so as I’m not accused of being biased or one-sided ( or a militant, narcissistic feminist…. Oops, too late! ), I also like Miss Whitty’s intelligent and well-reasoned take on the matter;
https://twitter.com/IrishProtector/status/1644419124439707653
Nice, rallying speech. But I’m still wondering in what kind of strange universe these people live. My grandma fled from Königsberg before the Russians conquered it. She took her two small children, the boy being 6 and his sister 4 or 5 with her, she then then raised alone in postwar Germany as she never saw her husband alive again. Her son became a teacher and her daughter a customs offifical. The daughter developed MS in her late thirties or early fourties and became progessively worse until she had lost almost all power of directed movement. She continued to live with her mother who cared for her for as long as she physically could (eventuallly succumbed to dementia in her nineties). I very much doubt that anybody ever thought of questioning whether or not she knew her own mind while she was still capable of running the show.
Maybe that’s an issue of different cultures.
Posie has been a pioneer in taking on the trans activists since at least 2018. You should watch her first (of three) Triggernometry interviews where she lays down her cards (it is the most viewed of all their videos to date!). Love her. A real stand out woman of class and courage
Trusting “governmant data” is a mug’s game
What a joke.
Newham is heavily Bangladeshi Muslim. There is no way any of their children would go home to say they were other than straight.
we k ow the practices of certain countries which are Muslim but that is with boys and it is not permitted to follow non straight preferences.
Unfortunately the recent census was obviously the very worst ever conducted. It was most likely designed to be so.
Just compare the total population figures with NHS registration figures.
I remember being a bit skint in 1971 and signing up for assisting with the actual census operation. Quite a lot of planning, preparation and on the actual day everywhere that anyone might be dossing down (garages, outbuildings, old caravans) checked for any stray inhabitant. Failing to complete the form properly? See you in Court!
The latest one, people openly stating that they would NEVER complete the form! Were there any prosecutions?
None reported that I am aware of.
You think our Beloved Leaders really wanted documentation of how many illegal invaders were in the Country?
Draw your own conclusions.
Muslim areas are tranny? Propaganda and nonsense. Brighton is 50% retard, the gay capital of Europe it calls itself (we live not far), the trans capital of England. A good place to use for RAF practice. Soon everyone will be tranny, with the ‘science’ saying 110% of the pop self identify as a flower, cat, or transexual Hindu Muslim. Lots of money in the drugs and therapy and apparently a need to destroy the family and hetero-normalcy.