Austria’s equivalent of the House of Commons voted yesterday in favour of the new Government proposals to fine the unvaccinated the equivalent of thousands of pounds. The BBC has more.
The law, which is due to come into effect on February 1st, would make Austria the first [i.e., only] European country to introduce a mandatory jab.
From mid-March the law will see adults unvaccinated against COVID-19 subjected to fines of up to €3,600 (£2,994).
So far, 72% of Austrians have been fully vaccinated against the virus.
The bill must now pass the upper house and be signed into law by President Alexander Van der Bellen, steps largely expected to be formalities.
The vaccine order is expected to remain in force until January 2024, with the government investing €1.4bn in measures designed to encourage unvaccinated people to come forward for the jab.
Addressing lawmakers on Thursday afternoon, Health Minister Wolfgang Mueckstein called the measure a “big, and, for the first time, also lasting step” in Austria’s fight against the pandemic.
Chancellor Karl Nehammer told reporters ahead of the vote that vaccines were “an opportunity for our society to achieve lasting and continuous freedom, because the virus cannot restrict us any further”.
A majority of MPs, including those from Mr. Nehammer’s governing centre-right coalition and the three main opposition parties, backed the bill, by 137 votes to 33.
The far-right Freedom Party, which has courted the votes of Austria’s substantial anti-vaccine minority, has taken a stand against the bill.
Its leader, Herbert Kickl, said the mandate “paves the way to totalitarianism in Austria” and vowed he would continue to refuse vaccination in defiance of the new law.
Since authorities announced they intended to introduce the mandate in November the capital, Vienna, has seen regular protests, with some numbering over 40,000 people.
The demonstrations have attracted a coalition of anti-vaccine campaigners and far-right extremists, and authorities have warned that they have been radicalising in recent weeks, with new “protective zones” declared around healthcare facilities and vaccination centres to protect workers.
Similar vaccine mandates are being introduced in several other countries, including in Greece, where jabs are now obligatory for everyone aged 60.
In neighbouring Germany, the new Government led by Chancellor Olaf Scholz has said it will introduce a vaccination bill in the Bundestag in March.
Alarming stuff. Have they learned nothing from history? Worth reading in full.
The BBC article links to an earlier article from last month where the BBC sets out three arguments in favour of forced vaccination (thanks Auntie) and three against. The three in favour include that we’ve tried everything else and it will supposedly “end the cycle of lockdowns” – right, like everything else governments have inflicted on us these past two years. The arguments against include that some people may not like it and, well, maybe we haven’t exhausted all our other options – so not balanced at all, and no mention of the crucial fact that the vaccines don’t prevent infection or transmission, or that the majority of new infections and deaths are in the vaccinated.
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If everyone who has a fine levied against them refuses to pay, where does that leave the government? It would need absolute solidarity though from all concerned.
Not a surprise as Austria has a history in Nazi eugenics and was, of course, the birthplace of the ‘Little Corporal’.
Oh yes, Linz. Aren’t they hiring out for “vaccine” martials now? Plus ca change…
(And Nazi supporters claimed to be following the science too).
The virus is not restricting Austria. The fascists governing Austria are.
i thought they weren’t going to because of the protests. what happened ? besides that some how sounds a little familar to something of about 80 or so is it years ago
Scratch Austria from the nazi like places to visit, I mean bucket list😂😂😂
Right now I’m watching the beebs breakfast show and they’ve got 2 “experts” on banging out the usual mantra.
This should be taken of air and the beeb prosecuted for the nonesense it is spouting.
This stuff boils my piss.
“The far-right Freedom Party, which has courted the votes of Austria’s substantial anti-vaccine minority, has taken a stand against the bill.
Its leader, Herbert Kickl, said the mandate “paves the way to totalitarianism in Austria” and vowed he would continue to refuse vaccination in defiance of the new law.”
So it’s too fascist a measure for the Far Right!
You never know who your friends are until the 💩 hits the fan.
Such governments are surely the enemy within. Power to the people of Austria!
Fascism is lurking just under the surface of the supposed democratic western nations on the continent.
I feel so sorry for their citizens (especially my German friends) but they have to resist and if necessary, fight back.
Are they serious? Just 14 people died allegedly from COVID yesterday and deaths have been below 30 for weeks.
Search for Slovakia’s covid statistics. On January 27 2021 Slovakia Health Ministry approved the therapeutic use of Ivermectin. This was a temporary approval of 6 months. On July 27 2021 temporary authorization for use of Ivermectin expired in the country. With the use of IVM, new cases zeroed. After the authorization expired new cases skyrocketed to a level that has never been seen before in the country and countinues to do so. There are cures to this flu like symptoms. Get your ivermectin before it is too late! https://ivmpharmacy.com
Why is fascism coming from the same place as last time?
Couldn’t be anything to do with genes.
I just listened to a BBC ‘comedy’ quiz show which had some not very veiled references to the licence fee freeze as being ‘cuts’ to services. Quite apart from outrages like Auntie donating some £200 million to what it considers ‘worthy causes’, such biased views as it does express make me hope that it gets completely defunded, and soon.
Just for balance, up to about 5 years ago, I would have backed the Beeb against its detractors, but it’s crossed innumerable lines of late and no longer deserves sympathy or defence. If they’re so confident of their ‘reach’, let them prove it in a competitive world.
I commented about the passage of this law on my Facebook Page (and a couple of Group Pages that are skeptical of mandates). I said in this post the same thing I said in this message board, that this “Might be the scariest story I’ve ever read.”
Well, Facebook didn’t like this. I’ve now been banned for two days for sharing that opinion. I was told I violated “Community Standards” and that this speech could cause “physical harm.” This is my “second warning.”
You don’t think these people and organizations aren’t playing hard ball?
If you are a naughty boy, Mark Zuckerberg may not invite you to his weirdo ‘Metaverse’, and you won’t be able to play cards with the crab-robot thing.
Three minutes of this and feel your stomach churning!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gElfIo6uw4g
President van der Bellend can shove his pen where he pleases.
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Shame on the down voters because this updated Austrian flag is spot on!
High time rogue state Austria was condemned and sanctions imposed …
Poster please- to replace the NHS Bullshit defacing every Bus Shelter!
White arose on telegram?
On it.
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Austria to adopt new flag more symbolic of its political direction…
Brilliant!
Is that flag accurate? It seems to imply 4 jabs is enough.
Four jabs should do it.
If you look carefully there are 6. Of course it may be updated periodically like the Star Spangled Banner…
“Never again.”
As it turns out, “never” actually meant about 83 years.
Until nearly everyone who actually remembers it has died…
Getting close! The forced vaccinations for the elderly should clinch it!
Don’t like where this is headed. Right. Logic. What do we think we know?
A plan has been made at supranational level to use so-called vaccination as the basis of a new digital financial / privilege system. We know this because for one thing, the WEF as good as tell us this on their website. And because all advanced nations, regardless of their so-called pandemic outcomes are racing to develop so-called vaccines for their domestic populations and applying various forms of coercion tactics on them to begin a never ending so-called vaccination schedule. And because we can read the patents for various forms of Huxleyan biosecurity measures for fantasy public health emergencies that exist in the wet dreams of the most unscrupulous individuals and corporations on earth. Into this market opportunity steps Big Pharma, more than happy to develop so-called solutions for the so-called problem and dispense with the usual tedium of proper clinical trials / safety monitoring / control groups etc. and take advantage of legal indemnities, being offered by partners in government around the world. Coronavirus is the chosen vehicle for this because so-called protection is transitory and ‘needs’ to be so-called boosted on a regular schedule, whether… Read more »
insert historic quote about an “endless series of hobgoblins”
Check out this news search for the next most likely candidate, also listen to George Webb predicting it… Olympics start 4th Feb-20th Feb
I also had a look at similar news items from the last 10 years or so, from around the world, you can clearly see the predictive programming meme building in action just from various global headlines. I remember seeing staged ebola news a few yrs ago too.
https://duckduckgo.com/?t=ffab&q=hemorrhagic+fever&iar=news&ia=news
https://twitter.com/RealGeorgeWebb1/status/1481752119757750272If
70% of the world shit it’s self for 2 years for a fucking cold virus, imagine how bad it’d get with a hemorrhagic fever!
Same crowd funding/working with HIV/Corona GoF have been working with different hemorrhagic fevers around the world (to avoid GoF restrictions) for ~15-20 yrs. I hope they weren’t trying to develop a “pan-hemorrhagic fever” vaccine the same way they were trying to make a “pan-corona” vaccine ^.^
Why the repeated injections though? Unless the injections themselves are the actual aim. If you were wanting to get the maximum number of people onto a digital central pass, you’d only demand the one injection. Hell, in those circumstances I might possibly have queued up to be injected myself, for the sake of an easy life.
The only rationale I can think of for repeated injections, other than plain old greed on the part of pharma shareholders, is for the purpose of reducing life expectancy. We all regularly read those articles explaining that a demographic bomb has gone off, and the consequences are going to be horrendous. There’s no way out of it, but we all just turn the page, assuming that They will think of something.
I think They have.
You are absolutely right; needing to repeatedly inject your new 4IR global citizens on an ever dwindling timescale for increasingly tenuous reasons is not the way to seamlessly get everyone on board. It’s a plot hole in the narrative I’ve outlined above for sure. Sorry for sounding thick but what is the demographic time bomb? I’m not sure I understand..
Simply women having fewer than two surviving offspring. Combine that with increasing life expectancy and at some point there begins a cycle with a continually dwindling number of active youngsters having to pay and care for a continually rising number of OAPs.
China’s situation is obviously the worst, thanks to its one-child policy. But countries such as Germany are realizing that they’re facing the same catastrophe (one of Merkel’s rationalizations for her open door to migrants).
Fertility rate: ‘Jaw-dropping’ global crash in children being born
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-53409521#:~:text=But%20even%20with%20the%20best,need%20a%20higher%20fertility%20rate.
The world is ill-prepared for the global crash in children being born which is set to have a “jaw-dropping” impact on societies, say researchers.
Falling fertility rates mean nearly every country could have shrinking populations by the end of the century.
And 23 nations – including Spain and Japan – are expected to see their populations halve by 2100.
Countries will also age dramatically, with as many people turning 80 as there are being born.
Got you. Well it’s a grim reading, but no more grim than injecting pregnant women and children with unlicensed gene therapy and no safety monitoring.
The injections are designed to kill and the target date like all of this is 2030.
There are plenty of world class specialists acknowledging this such as Dr Mike Yeadon. I am sure Dr’s Malone and McCullough are pretty much on board. The “vaccines” are bio-weapons and cleverly designed such that they will kill via, heart attacks, strokes, cancers, other organ failures and such that without post mortems the real cause of death will not be identified.
Post mortems are of course being refused.
Each injection undermines immunity. This explains Bozo and 90% of those in ICU are unboosted – their immune systems are shot.
The “vaccines” have been designed to kill and maim, but ultimately kill.
One possibility for the multiple jabs is they can’t get all the nanotechnology into you at once, so several are required so that you can be auto linked up to the digital currency system.
Fine summary CG.
Ha ha! I don’t think I’m anywhere nearer to solving it though 🕵️♂️
Globalist “Anschluss” clearly underway in Austria! So is it “Goodnight Vienna” all over again?
I do not like the Blue Team – Red Team way of thinking which was ginned up for the folks at home during the hustings in the 2019 US election which, heaven help us, produced Ole Joe as Leader of the Free World. The pro-vax and anti-vax positions are artificial constructs designed to create dissonance in the public at large, and a good example of the “You’re either for Us or against Us” mindset. The Covid panjandrum not actually about a virus, but about oppression, arrogance, greed, self-enrichment, power and hegemony above and against all others. If, as a human being you oppose this project, then I don’t care which “Wing” if any you identify with. Let’s be respectful to others and forge alliances.
Cowardly Austrian gov scum.
Remember when you needed Polaks like me to save your asses in 1683, after Kaiser Leopold fled Vienna rather than face the Ottoman hordes?
I see it’s another famous ancestor Onkel Adolf you’re following now!
Remember the Partitions of Poland and Auschwitz you scum!
Burn in hell.
As with all medications, there are rare side effects to these vaccines, including death. So, albeit rare, can you imagine being one of those Austrians who have been severely harmed or had a close family member die of vaccine injury, and the very thing that caused their death is being made MANDATORY?!
Again, I know it’s rare, but if you had been one of those people who had suffered seizures from the first jabs or the booster, how would you feel now that you’re left with the choice of either forking out thousands in fine money or having another seizure?
Anyone who doesn’t appreciate the weight of this measure must have been utterly brainwashed, converted by the vaccine evangelists.
It is a medication. It should not be law.
If it’s a “medication,” it’s one of the worst medications yet created.
Or one of the best….depending entirely on your purpose.
Exactly.
There are heaps of warnings in the technical literature about the potential long-term consequences of the vaccines that cause generation of the pathogenic spike protein. One published this month in the journal Vaccines flagging up a potential catastrophe with Parkinson’s disease and Lewy body dementia in 20 to 30 years.
https://doi.org/10.3390/vaccines10010001
Here are some relevant extracts (my bold):
…purified spike proteins from SARS-CoV-2 can initiate the pro-inflammatory response in endothelial cells in the brain, thereby destabilizing the BBB. Secondly, an in vivo study in mice demonstrated that the S1 subunit of the spike protein readily crossed the BBB, entering the brain parenchyma, after the iodinated S1 subunit was administered intravenously to male mice. Connecting these phenomena to the vaccine administration site, which is the deltoid muscle, was the observation that the spike protein S1 subunit was detectable in the systemic circulation up to approximately two weeks post-immunization in eleven out of thirteen healthcare workers. Although concentrations of the S1 subunit were low, this study provides proof-of-principle that spike proteins or components thereof can get into circulation following inoculation…
It was demonstrated that the spike protein S1 subunit alone is responsible for initiating pro-inflammatory responses via Toll-like receptor 4-mediated signaling. In… Read more »
Thank you.
You keep pushing the rare bit. What is your definition of rare?
It’s NOT a medication it is a gene altering injection designed to kill and maim. It has no therapeutic benefits.
Austrians will just have to go after those who are forcing it. They’ve already had several weeks to get their act together.
Emerald Fox we need you to have your own Command Centre!
With a wall of satellite and international cam feed monitors. “Austria! Take out the Chancellor, NOW!” “Belgium! Seize the Parliament Building GO GO GO!”
He very modestly hasn’t bragged about the 5 Finnish politicians he’s shot with his rifle.
Because theres no way he’s all mouth and no trousers.
We have an axe under our bed in case we ever wake up and find intruders in the house.
Of course you do.
What a sad fantasist you are.
I used to be quite good at organising things. As I’ve said here earlier, where, for starters, are the lists of ‘the enemy’? Covid marshalls, those who work for Test & Trace, the snitches who phoned to the Police to report their neighbours breaking lockdowns, the people who own the cowboy companies flogging PCRs (looking at you, Faisal Shoukat of Halifax!)…
It’s fun to imagine a good old-fashioned punch-up, pulling face masks of the twats in Waitrose and so on… but the fact seems to be that ‘the resistance’ is mostly people tapping away on their keyboards sharing links to this & that, and thinly spread out about the country.
And, as we all know, you can’t even start to organise anything via a public discussion forum as ‘the authorities’ will swoop.
Anyway, looks like our Internet may be cut shortly, and communication with the world coming to a stop – once the Russians take the island of Gotland they will have the whole of the Baltic and Gulf of Finland sewn up right there. Swedish soldiers on the streets of Gotland right now.
How do you know it’s rare?
““big, and, for the first time, also lasting step” in Austria’s fight against the pandemic.”
More like a lasting step into totalitarianism!
Well, won’t it be interesting to see which British politician calla this out?
Don’t hold your breath – some Labourite, female frontbenchers among many others would be hard pressed finding Austria on a map (not to mention Ukraine!).
😀 Indeed.
Right. Let’s count all the lead editorials our major news organizations publish condemning this.
Indeed, several will support this and cheer it. The Salt Lake City, Utah newspaper just published an editorial calling for that state’s National Guard to be used to keep the unvaccinated confined to their homes in house arrest until all of these resisters quit resisting.
I never thought I’d live to see what is now happening …. happen.
Most of them in the UK will just ignore it and continue wittering on about politicians and civil servants having parties.
There won’t be a murmur in the UK press. Possibly a comment piece in The Torygraph from Alison Pearson.
I have a shot glass with the words
Eat drink be merry tomorrow you may be in Utah.
Sez it all really
So Meatloaf dies has become Meatloaf dies of Covid in the MSM, they really are low
He was old and fat…..like all the deaths
And if you happen to refuse and do not have $4,000 to pay your fine, what happens to you?
If you are a family of five that doesn’t want to get vaccinated, that’s $20,000.
Surely there are “camps” for people like that?
I guess in the UK court it could be gaol for non-payment of fine, the good thing over here is, if it does come to that, we don’t have to pay council tax in gaol, so I’d be locking up the house and take free room and board until the world comes to it’s senses.
Because there’s no way they’re stabbing me with that shit willingly, and I won’t pay a fine for it.
I guess you move to Poland.
Here we go again… Are they bloody thick in Austria and Germany? Going for third time lucky are they?
It has made me ask the question: did the English make liberty, or did liberty make the English?
“Bloody thick”? So what so you going to do when the Army and the armed and Armoured Police are against you with a free hand to commit gross acts of violence agains the peaceful crowds?
Thousands have been filling streets of all Europe for months – our media has reported nothing….,,,,absolutely nothing…. – isn’t it we who are ” bloody thick” for watching and listening to a corrupt now purely propagandist, censored ( by Ofcom) Media working for Globalist Billionaires’ evil and tyrannical agenda and yet still believing everything we are told ?
In Germany they are called the ‘Lügenpresse ‘ – the lying press – never to be believed !
I was not talking about the general and enlightened public. I was talking about the evil ones who just won’t leave people alone and feel they have a divine right to rule – they don’t. And this time there should be no mercy for those who planned and created such misery and destruction – for the third time…
Personally, I never listen to the MSM.
Perhaps that’s the problem – thousands have been filling the streets, meeting friends, “boosting morale amongst the troops”, having a good time, then off to a cafe or a pub, then catching the 5pm train home.
Any protesters getting arrested and their mates just stand there filming it, and not wading in to rescue them.