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How it Feels to Be Unvaccinated in Austria as the Government Turns the Screws

by Neil McCarthy
10 February 2022 8:00 AM

I’m going to say it. I’m unvaccinated. There. I said it. That feels better.

I’m saying this now because for the last year in Austria, where I live, the hypocrisy, discrimination, and name-calling have risen to levels that we haven’t seen in a long, long time, certainly in my memory. That I choose not to get vaccinated is simply my choice and that’s it. I have never once suggested that anybody else should follow suit. I am writing this now because I am simply tired of repeating myself on a daily basis; tired of having to defend my decisions to people for whom my decisions are no business whatsoever. I am saying this now because:

  1. I routinely get reminded of the number of people in hospital. It’s a big number. There is no denying that. But, unless you are able to break that number down into the number of people in hospitals actually being treated for Covid and not something else, then that number means nothing. If you are able to break that number down into the number of people who are actually being treated for Covid, then try breaking it down further into the number who are obese, have pre-existing conditions and are of a certain age group. If you are unable to do any of the above, at least have some kind of empirical comparison such as the number of people in ICUs in 2018, 2016, 2012 etc. If you cannot do any of these, do not quote me a random set of digits which serve no purpose whatsoever other than to serve as fear propaganda.
  2. On a daily basis I get hit with the fact that the numbers of people getting infected with Omicron have surged. That’s a fact. There is no denying it. What is also a fact is that both the vaccinated and unvaccinated are catching it. Couple that with the fact that Pfizer is developing an Omicron vaccine, then you are getting closer to understanding my reason for not going out and getting the current vaccines which are available, as even Pfizer is tacitly acknowledging they’re not up to the job.
  3. Pfizer. How quickly we forget that the company which has a monopoly on vaccines in the European Union is also the same company which was forced to pay what is still the largest criminal fine in history. Couple that with the emerging news that the president of the European Commission was in a text message exchange with a head of Pfizer before sealing the deal which saw the European Union pay over €30 billion more than they should have for a drug. Couple that with the fact that many contracts between governments and Pfizer have dozens if not hundreds of pages redacted. Couple that again with Pfizer´s move to indemnify themselves from potential lawsuits resulting from vaccine complications, and then you are getting close to understanding my reason for not trusting this particular pharmaceutical company.
  4. The Greater Good. While the sentiment may be well-intended, the ‘greater good’ seems to surface only very selectively. Where was the ‘greater good’ in 2018 when the same ICUs were full of flu patients? Were we all railroading each other into getting flu shots? Where was the ‘greater good’ in 2009 when swine flu appeared? Did we don masks, close schools and chase down swine flu vaccines? Not that we should have done, of course.

In Austria, according to a recent survey, the vast majority of the population believe their Government to be corrupt. We have had four Prime Ministers in one year. In Vienna, if I have a negative test and no symptoms, I am still not allowed into a shoe shop to buy my three-year-old son a pair of shoes because the Government has decided that shoes are nonessential items. In fact, an unvaccinated person has not been granted access to hairdressers, cafés, bars, restaurants, theatres, cinemas and so on since late October. In order to continue earning a living, an unvaccinated person has had to provide a negative test every 48 hours. In the meantime, the vaccinated, who are not required to test, even if they have symptoms, have had free rein. And the numbers have continued to rise, and the unvaccinated blamed.

What is more, the Government has now announced a €1.4 billion lottery scheme to reward people for getting vaccinated with a vaccine that seemingly has only 30% efficacy against the current variant. These are the same taxpayers who were locked down on four separate occasions because hospitals could not cope with the numbers. So instead of helping the nurses and doctors, funding more beds, providing after-school programmes that were cancelled in the last two years, the money is going to the individual to be used as vouchers as they wish.

This is also a country that has passed a law to force people to get the aforementioned vaccines. It also requires people entering the country to show proof of a booster. Evidence has already shown that the booster is only effective against infection for 10 weeks at best. Yet without two vaccinations and a booster, you’re not allowed to have a haircut in Austria. The mandate for the vaccine comes into effect at precisely the same time as other European nations are dropping most, if not all of their measures, and fines will begin to be issued at the same time Pfizer rolls out the Omicron vaccine. At the time of writing, the legislation has been passed in the Lower and Upper Houses of Parliament. It still needs to get through the Constitutional Court which, typically, can take up to four months. It remains unclear how penalties are going to be enforced and by whom. What is clear is that these penalties cannot be realistically implemented by the middle of March as suggested by the Chancellor. The Government has conceded that it hopes the threat of such measures will achieve a high enough vaccine take-up that such enforcement will then be redundant – a desperate tactic to force a vaccination on a population that, even with these penalties and threats, is reluctant to accept it.

I am writing this now because I am tired of having to explain myself. I am tired of having to defend my choices. I am tired of being labelled selfish. I am tired of being labelled a conspiracy theorist. None of what I have written above are theories. They are facts. I am tired of being labelled a Right-wing nut job. If anything, I lean to the Left. But again, that is nobody’s business.

I am writing this to explain that the situation we are all going through is not simply black-and-white. I cannot recall a time when we have been so divided as a society. I blame social media for that and I blame mainstream media and their fear agenda. When people cast a vote nowadays, you get a sticker and post a picture online. When you get vaccinated, you change your Facebook profile picture, announce it to your Instagram followers, post a photo of the Band-Aid on the upper arm. In return you get some likes and some clapping hand emojis. And that’s it. Suddenly you are socially protected. Nobody can call you names or accuse you of being selfish or not contributing to the greater good. And whether deep down you have your suspicions, or regrets, or you secretly agree with people like me taking a stand against a totalitarian response to a virus, you can at least take some comfort in knowing you had a choice and chose as you deemed appropriate. I respect your decision. Maybe it’s time to afford others the same respect. In the meantime, shine a light on the Austrian Government because it is setting a very, very dangerous precedent.

Tags: AustriaCovid RestrictionsLockdownsMandatory VaccinesVaccine Passports

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stewart
stewart
3 years ago

Heartbreaking.

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Mumbo Jumbo
Mumbo Jumbo
3 years ago

You have my sympathy.

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Mark
Mark
3 years ago

Appalling.

There but for the grace of God go we. I firmly believe that under a Labour government (Starmer or Corbyn – both have been zero covid loons), or a “Conservative” government under one of the real authoritarian zealot types such as Gove, backed by zero covid coward Cummings, we would have gone down that path here as well.

What has happened here has been appalling, and we should neither forgive nor forget the shameful malfeasance that has characterised UK governance during this panic, but it’s clear now that it could have been much worse.

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huxleypiggles
huxleypiggles
3 years ago
Reply to  Mark

Unfortunately, under the guise of faux legality I fear things are going to get seriously worse in these islands:

Climate BS and then we have the H’ bombs of what will definitely be the contra legal

Online Harms Bill and our shiny new Human Rights Bill.

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Mark
Mark
3 years ago
Reply to  huxleypiggles

Yes, the price of liberty is indeed eternal vigilance, and battles and campaigns might end, or peter out, but the war for liberty against tyranny goes on, as the action shifts to other fronts.

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Ron Smith
Ron Smith
3 years ago
Reply to  Mark

Yup I’d love to be one of those metaphorical Japanese solders fighting on when the battle is over. Somehow I doubt it though.

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CovidiotAntiMasker
CovidiotAntiMasker
3 years ago
Reply to  Mark

Strange that it has to be a war, you’d think most people would prefer liberty over tyranny.

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Mark
Mark
3 years ago
Reply to  CovidiotAntiMasker

Well if we’ve all learned one thing over the past two years, surely it’s that when it comes down to it, most people can be manipulated into preferring the smack of firm government.

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FrankFisher
FrankFisher
3 years ago
Reply to  huxleypiggles

The online harms bill is positively obscene and no one is arguing against it. All the so-called human rights NGOs are in favour. Because their funders are in favour

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Ron Smith
Ron Smith
3 years ago
Reply to  FrankFisher

Only Big Brother Watch.

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Dobba
Dobba
3 years ago
Reply to  FrankFisher

The simple solution is to just quit all the social media platforms and hit them in the pocket. I say simple – I know it’s not, but there’s much more to life than arguing and name calling on the internet. Let all the woke twats do their thing online and go into nature, breathe, turn off the TV set and go out and do something less boring instead (if you remember ‘Why Don’t You?’ back in the 70’s – you’ll know where that comes from).

Almost everything is a business model. When you stop being a customer, they soon die off or change their ways.

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CovidiotAntiMasker
CovidiotAntiMasker
3 years ago
Reply to  Dobba

Yes I remember that on a Saturday morning, ironically you had to be watching TV to hear it, I preferred the Lone Ranger.

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David Beaton
David Beaton
3 years ago
Reply to  huxleypiggles

Both deadly dangerous – then add their ‘New Order’ NHSS – planning to run our lives with withdrawn services, digital medical passports and endless forced, experimental gene therapy injections.

So ‘life’ may not be worth living in 2025 – but then that really does seem to be the the outcome they want – astonishingly, it really does.

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Allnamestaken
Allnamestaken
3 years ago
Reply to  huxleypiggles

Not to mention the Police one – restricting protests.

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FrankFisher
FrankFisher
3 years ago
Reply to  Mark

It’s not over yet. Covid passes are still there, the database is still there, the contacts and travel and borders tracking is still there.

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Mark
Mark
3 years ago
Reply to  FrankFisher

I think the phase in which the main immediate threat to our liberty is the covid panic is probably fading. Yes, there’s a way to go, and yes it could flare up again, but I think other areas such as those mentioned by huxley above will increasingly be the primary concerns.

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Ron Smith
Ron Smith
3 years ago
Reply to  Mark

It could be like a calibration, ready for the 100 day pandemic response or whatever they call it. Until these cun*s are in The Hague, Gates et all, I would not relax.

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Ron Smith
Ron Smith
3 years ago
Reply to  Mark

Boris would do the same if he could get away with it….It was only in November he said
“I think it’s time we had a conversation on mandatory vaccination”….I think those back benchers were a game changer, in this country at least!

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David Stacey
David Stacey
3 years ago
Reply to  Mark

At least Corybyn and Long-Bailey voted against plan B along with 99 Tory refuseniks.

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Mark
Mark
3 years ago
Reply to  David Stacey

Yes, a long time after they signed up to this piece of shameful zero-covid panicker rubbish:

Socialist Campaign Group Calls for Urgent New Strategy to Save Lives . #ZeroCovid #Covid19UK
“With Britain passing the horrific milestone of 100,000 Covid deaths this week, members of the Socialist Campaign Group have called on the Government to adopt the Zero Covid strategy that has effectively eliminated the virus in many Pacific and East Asian countries.”
30th January 2021.

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hilarynw
hilarynw
3 years ago
Reply to  Mark

We seem to be in a better position for the moment but the wording proposed for the revised Human Rights legislation is deeply disturbing. It could be interpreted to mean that the government could take any measures it deemed necessary in any situation that it deemed to be an emergency and this could include mandatory vaccinations. I think we are far from out of the woods unless we send a loud and clear message that this is not what we want in the U.K. I fear Scotland may already be well on its way to a dystopian future as long as it’s present leader is in place!

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BS665
BS665
3 years ago

You live in an arbitrary tyranny.

We know it is such because the same ‘objectively real’ illness has had countless different responses in different geographical areas and contexts, all shifting randomly and capriciously.

This is a political choice of the Authorities. Please stand firm in the knowledge that we are on your side.

Freedom will reign once again!

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Jane G
Jane G
3 years ago

Top man.

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Stephensceptic
Stephensceptic
3 years ago

I used to love Austria.

Do not think I will go there again any time soon.

Totally shocked by this.

For what it is worth, I agree with your stance on the vaccine.

I took two shots last year. Not because I ever thought it was proven to work (it has not been) but I saw it as doing my bit to get out of this mess.

But I will not take a booster. The more data I see the more I the more I think the vaccine is an elaborate scam.

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Hopeless - "TN,BN"
Hopeless - "TN,BN"
3 years ago
Reply to  Stephensceptic

What was touted as some sort of panacea and the key to “Freedom” (as if we should need one), and which was eagerly seized by Governments as a “get out of gaol” card has turned out to be nothing of the sort.

We have swiftly moved from the “vaccines”, however novel and untested, being fit for their purpose, to declining efficacy, more frequent administration, uselessness against the disease, its infection and transmission, through to a point where the data, however much dismissed by those with their fingers in this pie, suggest strongly, that there are serious short, medium and probably long-term health detriments.

If the consequences of the injections turn out to be as bad as they might be (no modelling from Ferguson and Co. on that yet), then the dire effect on the misnamed “Health Service”, already crumbling under the weight of what it has failed to do both pre- and during Covid, will be monumental.

A scam, as you say, and one which has made an awful lot of people extraordinarily wealthy in the time it takes to stick a needle in an arm, or flog some duff PPE.

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VAX FREE IanC
VAX FREE IanC
3 years ago
Reply to  Stephensceptic

Not that elaborate really. Just so in yer face to be unbelievable to many.

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Ron Smith
Ron Smith
3 years ago
Reply to  Stephensceptic

Yup I had a great time on holiday there in Alpbach, one of the Ski resorts in the 1990s as a kid. Almost got washed away by a flash flood, I digress!

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Hester
Hester
3 years ago

Really good, honest piece, I believe the way you are treated is frankly inhumane, No Government or decent society should be doing this, there is no excuse, the vaccines are failures, everyon knows it. Societies around the world who have perpetrated such vileness induced by their Governments, need to stand back and really look at the sort of person they have put into power. In your Country as in Italy it is very clear that the responses to the unvaccinated is nothing to do with health and everything to do with whipping into line the disobedient, the question is why? Why do Governments need the total obedience of their people, what do they plan to do with this obedience,
I am grateful to you for the courage and moral strength you are showing in standing up to the tyrants, over here we the unvacccinated have to endure discrimination but its not on the scale of what you are experiencing. Don’t give up or give in, there will be a reckoning evidence is coming forwards every day which exposes the deep corruption and connivance of politicians, Pharma, big tech and the Billionaires who are attempting to bring in their own devised new world order at the expense of millions. They will not win.
Thank you once again for your continued strength

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DanClarke
DanClarke
3 years ago
Reply to  Hester

The want us to follow the Chinese with their ‘collective society’, takes away individual autonomy of the plebs which is much easier to control

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unmaskthetruth
unmaskthetruth
3 years ago
Reply to  DanClarke

As a mate of mine said yesterday, if they’re trying to advertise the Chinese model as the future, the Olympics with their dystopian hazmat suits and ugly venues is doing a terrible job!

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TheyLiveAndWeLockdown
TheyLiveAndWeLockdown
3 years ago
Reply to  DanClarke

they mean overt slave society.rather than the west’s more stealthy feudalism.

I think they just don’t expect to be able to keep up the charade of freedom.

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unmaskthetruth
unmaskthetruth
3 years ago
Reply to  Hester

They plan to make you lockdown and pay all your money to them for the ‘greater good’ of the planet. Clear as crystal. The virus response whether pre-meditated or not has been the change agent to set up globalist control of a subjugated population. Just look at Nicola Sturgeon, Jacinda, Trudeau and Macron. They have failed this time but we must ensure the sheeple realise what they have been softened up for.

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Ron Smith
Ron Smith
3 years ago
Reply to  unmaskthetruth

How many atrocities have been carried out in the name of…”The Greater good”

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Emerald Fox
Emerald Fox
3 years ago
Reply to  Hester

The ‘vaccines’ are not ‘failures’ – they have done their job magnificently, and that was to get everyone on the hamster wheel of the Vaxx Pass – no latest jab and your Pass becomes invalid.

“They will not win.” – and Tony Blair will be going to prison…. Nicola Sturgeon and her mates have just extended the Covid restrictions for another 6 months, that looks like ‘winning’ to me.

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RedhotScot
RedhotScot
3 years ago
Reply to  Emerald Fox

How do you get through each day without topping yourself?

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Star
Star
3 years ago
Reply to  RedhotScot

Having a backbone helps. It’s submission that’s more akin to suicide.

In any case it’s better to die on your feet than to live on your knees, picking a smartphone.

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rayc
rayc
3 years ago
Reply to  RedhotScot

You must realize that breaking your resistance and causing surrender is exactly the goal of your enemy.

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A Heretic
A Heretic
3 years ago
Reply to  Emerald Fox

hamster wheel of the Vaxx Pass

soon to be a green pass. Sorry citizen, you’ve used your share of “carbons” for today. You may no longer participate in society.

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Backlash
Backlash
3 years ago
Reply to  A Heretic

And we’re cutting off your power via the smart meter for good measure

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FrankFisher
FrankFisher
3 years ago
Reply to  Emerald Fox

Yep. The database is still there. The contacts tracking is still there. I have been writing about this shit for decades – digital matters are not magic. they take a long time to roll put, they require an architecture. if you want to know what is coming, look at the infrastructure. Look at the processes. Look at what is possible, not what they tell you it is for.

So eleven or twelve years ago at the Guardian I wrote about the censorship architecture in the UK that controlled the UK-accessed internet, without any legislative oversight. I wrote about the hysteria around child porn, extreme porn etc that was used to whip up support for gentlemens’ agreements that would create invisible censorship. It’s all here. I talked about the cozy consensus of the establishment media who were quite happy to see online upstarts forced into the same narratives, to eliminate competition. It’s all here. I talked – even a decade before that – of the globalists’ urge to have online access limited to those with offline biomentric ID that would totally eliminate all anonymity online, thus massively impacting dissent. That’s coming. I talked of the shameful role of Western tech in proving the tools for China’s censorship, that would inevitably be used here at home – and so it is.

Call me Cassandra. I called it all right, no one cared.

Guess what comes next?

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Ron Smith
Ron Smith
3 years ago
Reply to  FrankFisher

“Think of the kiddies (unless it’s the jab of course) that is the gift that keeps giving. The best deceiving policies are the ones that have an element of truth so as to keep the show on the road.

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Catee
Catee
3 years ago
Reply to  Emerald Fox

“The ‘vaccines’ are not ‘failures’ – they have done their job magnificently, and that was to get everyone on the hamster wheel of the Vaxx Pass –”
You may have fallen for it but I haven’t and neither have millions of others (more than they’re admitting to, I suspect), so not ‘everyone’ on the hamster wheel, many actively dismantling in it, in our own quiet way. What we’re not doing is trying to bring everyone down to the doom laden, defeatist level you occupy.

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huxleypiggles
huxleypiggles
3 years ago
Reply to  Hester

Hear, hear.

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DanClarke
DanClarke
3 years ago

‘the vaccinated, who are not required to test, even if they have symptoms, have had free rein’, how CRAZY is that which once again proves that this is nothing to do with a ‘virus’..

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unmaskthetruth
unmaskthetruth
3 years ago

That is appalling. Get your truckers to block the capital. Seems to change their mind pretty quick!

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D B
D B
3 years ago

I am Neil McCarthy.

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Annie
Annie
3 years ago

My sincere congratulations in your courage and constancy. May God be with you.
This nightmare will end. You will be vindicated. There will be a reckoning.

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Osobowy
Osobowy
3 years ago

Where are the Austrian truckers?

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Ron Smith
Ron Smith
3 years ago
Reply to  Osobowy

Probably not so many privately owned vehicles like in Canada or the US.

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Osobowy
Osobowy
3 years ago
Reply to  Ron Smith

Aha. That would be an issue.

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Fraser Nelsons Underpants
Fraser Nelsons Underpants
3 years ago

I sympathise deeply with you and recommend that you leave Austria. Come to the UK, we would be glad to have you.

COVID has certainly revealed a lot over the last two years. One of the things it seems to have revealed is that the Third Reich was not some sort of aberration that could have happened anywhere, as I once thought, but the natural outpouring of the German soul.

I would seriously consider leaving.

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HelenaHancart
HelenaHancart
3 years ago
Reply to  Fraser Nelsons Underpants

You’ll have to come to England, not our devolved nations, because their jumped-up little tyrant leaders are trying their damnest to follow Austria’s policies by the looks of it!

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rayc
rayc
3 years ago
Reply to  Fraser Nelsons Underpants

Although it may be pragmatic, fleeing is not really the solution. It solidifies power of the dictators and also is an unnecessary personal sacrifice (it is them who should be fleeing, not us).

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Ron Smith
Ron Smith
3 years ago
Reply to  rayc

Agree with that, but if there is no ‘us’,and just you, you should try to escape and survive.

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Smelly Melly
Smelly Melly
3 years ago

Hasn’t anybody produced “fake” passports in Austria? I’m sure smaller shops could be used for testing out said fake passports before moving onto something bigger.

That’s what I’d do. (Not that I’ve ever used it but I have on my phone a photo of a negative test a friend sent me as I understand the vast majority of this garbage is based on honesty. As the politicians aren’t honest with me I won’t be honest with them. I tried to see an old friend in hospital who’s dying, I informed his wife I wasn’t jabbed and she wasn’t bothered. She said I just needed to show a negative LFT and she had some negative spares if I wanted one. Unfortunately I wasn’t allowed in as I’m not family)

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Emerald Fox
Emerald Fox
3 years ago
Reply to  Smelly Melly

That’s just going along with accepting the Vaxx Passes. The authorities are not stupid – that’s why they have everyone over a barrel right now – they’ll know if a Pass is fake or not.
You’d think a third of Austrians could get rid of their government if they really wanted to.

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Smelly Melly
Smelly Melly
3 years ago
Reply to  Emerald Fox

How’s a small shop keeper going to stop somebody with a fake pass and risk loosing a sale?

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rayc
rayc
3 years ago
Reply to  Smelly Melly

I bet once your ID is tied to the smartphone, it will be reported to the police automatically without any intervention from the shopkeeper. The wonders of IT/automation technology.

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rayc
rayc
3 years ago
Reply to  Smelly Melly

Idk about Austria but in Germany you can theoretically get 1 year prison sentence for using a fake vaxx pass. Yes, they changed the pertinent law pretty recently and quickly – it used to be not regulated because vaccinations were not deemed as a “legal certificate”. Now they are.

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Cecil B
Cecil B
3 years ago

If you own any artworks suggest you move them to Switzerland

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Osobowy
Osobowy
3 years ago
Reply to  Cecil B

Move your money into accounts and assets that the Austrian government cannot touch.

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rayc
rayc
3 years ago
Reply to  Osobowy

Unless you are very rich, that might prove difficult. The days of banking confidentiality are long over. And the crackdown on cryptocurrencies (at least the real anonymous ones that, unlike Bitcoin, are not already cracked by the (US) government) is going to start very soon.

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Osobowy
Osobowy
3 years ago
Reply to  rayc

Fair point. If that’s not an option to move it into an independent bank, then it could be a good idea to put your capital into real estate outside of Austria. Or buy real gold and other precious metals. Protect yourself from this government which seems capable of anything!

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rayc
rayc
3 years ago
Reply to  Osobowy

Real estate can be taxed and seized easily (and who is to say that the other country is not going to be subverted next). Gold has the problem of being difficult to transport and easy to steal by criminals (and if you buy lots of it, you can be pretty sure they will know and make you a target). Diamonds and other gems have the problem of having huge bid/ask price spreads, making you lose a lot of money in the process of buying/selling them, also uncertain future price and high risk of getting scammed because of fakery.

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iane
iane
3 years ago
Reply to  Cecil B

Indeed: you might even research escape routes via the Alps!

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FrankFisher
FrankFisher
3 years ago
Reply to  iane

That only works if you have a large family and some singing talent

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Guido
Guido
3 years ago

horrendous situation for sure but hold the line , they can’t arrest a third of the population, and how long can it last before the vaxxed all catch Omigoditsacoldicron and enpugh wake up to see the vaxx doesn;t do much at all and soon wears out in a relatively short time .. LItelrally, if there were no more vaxxes done from today then in a matter of months there is zero protection from the jabs in the entire population . ( Aside – Pfizer made 58 Billion in revenue from covid in 2021 …….I’m with you on the the trust levels of this company )

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rayc
rayc
3 years ago
Reply to  Guido

They will not arrest anybody, just take your money. Over and over again, until there is nothing left to take. Making it impossible for you to earn money. Except through black market economy, participating in which will get you arrested eventually. Their bet is that most people are not fond of dealing with black market/criminals and will give up well before that.

Oh, I forgot, the criminals who run black markets will screw you, too.

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HaylingDave
HaylingDave
3 years ago

Hi Neil, what a heart wrenching piece and you have my deep respect for staying strong throughout this fascist abomination of governmental overreach.

I only hope your prose provides you a bit of cathartic peace and temporary well being.

Be strong, we are all battling demons both figuratively and literally – and feel free to post or submit anytime: in my humble opinion, sites like this should allow us to sometimes just express our deepest fears, thoughts, confessions and frustrations; we’re all in this together!

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ImpObs
ImpObs
3 years ago

I feel your pain, I’m convinced we only got away with it in the UK by the skin of our teeth. I am not convinced that threat is over yet either. There are those on all/both sides of the political divide who would have taken us down this road with a vengence.

I discussed with my wife what we would do if the same happened here. We had plans to hide our liquid assets, pay off the mortgage, and sit it out in goal, rather than accept a possibly permanent degridation of our natural immune systems for life, or worse.

They destroyed our business with lockdowns, 2 years on the pittance of <£70 per week UC welfare ate most of our savings, we managed with financial help from familiy, and by cutting back severely, I’m not sure we would make it through another winter now electricity and heating oil have doubled in price and expected to go even higher. Though we are now almost ready to start again, now with extra debt to fund the startup, the memory of how easy it can be lost remains strong, and I know many others in much worse situations.

We considered emmigrating, but there doesn’t seem to be anywhere to go, every country seems to be well ensconced by the globalist cabal, some with differing levels, but all are joined at the hip to the international financier cabal.

Stay strong my friend, we are with you in spirit. Picking at the scant numbers available from different countries, it seems around 30% in each are with us.

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Mr Taxpayer
Mr Taxpayer
3 years ago
Reply to  ImpObs

Your post is heartbreaking and I really feel for your plight.
I firmly believe the country has only tolerated the restrictions because Rishi shook the money tree for £300 billion to pay folk to stay home and STFU.
Personally I’m part if the class with the abilty to comfortably shirk from home; I saved £70pw commuting costs for 2 years. I have a fully set-up home office to work from and good internet. I should be someone happy with the situation, but I’m not. I was regularly out snd about during all the lockdowns and marched in London with my daughter last June. I am yet to wear a mask.

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ImpObs
ImpObs
3 years ago
Reply to  Mr Taxpayer

Thank you. As I said I know many in much worse situations, one chap from my 4×4 club in his early 30’s commited suicide. We know of 7 deaths directly linked to the vaccines in our wider circle of friends. One of my old clients has 2 of his adult children on life support in induced coma after seizures within days of the Moderna jabs, he’s had to pay privately for a specialist to give a 2nd opinion to prevent them tunning life support off, and it doesn’t look good, his 3rd adult child has been sectioned due to breaking down with the stress.

In the grander scheme of things, we consider ourselves very lucky. If I haddn’t happened to see the early DRASTIC research ~Feb 2020, which prompted me to deep dive into immunobiology study/research, we mite well have not been here to tell the story.

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Ron Smith
Ron Smith
3 years ago
Reply to  ImpObs

That Unheard video filmed in Austria was depressing, especially witnessing the indifference of people in the street. WW2 atrocities make more sense now.

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rayc
rayc
3 years ago
Reply to  Ron Smith

Cynically, German government instructed police today to crack down on those who dare draw comparisons to pre-war persecution of Jews, claiming it disrespects memory of those who “really” were persecuted. Apparently they think that stealing from someone, making them lose their job or driving them into insanity is just playing.

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rayc
rayc
3 years ago
Reply to  ImpObs

At least having been robbed already you have little to lose. In a way the situation is much worse for people who have significant assets.

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ImpObs
ImpObs
3 years ago
Reply to  rayc

You’ve lost me, or you’re being deliberately obtuse. In what way are people with significat assets worse off?

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Ron Smith
Ron Smith
3 years ago
Reply to  ImpObs

Well they could lose a property….if you have nothing, you’d probably be sent to jail faster. But fancy losing a property you’ve worked hard for and eventually end up in the same place.

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ImpObs
ImpObs
3 years ago
Reply to  Ron Smith

We have a property.

You missed where I said “We had plans to hide our liquid assets, pay off the mortgage, and sit it out in gaol”

Even without that, you’re still making a stupid point because it makes no sense that somebody with significant assets is worse off than somebody who’s lost everything, in any way, shape, or form.

You’re trying to say somebody with assets is worse off than someone who’s homeless, that’s just ridiculous.

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Ron Smith
Ron Smith
3 years ago
Reply to  ImpObs

I was just responding to your reply to rayc. I missed where you mentioned hiding assets. Yes you can be equally miserable in jail but maybe slightly more miffed if you’ve lost your property with endless fines to avoid the jab, that’s all….peace!

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rayc
rayc
3 years ago
Reply to  ImpObs

Like others said – the perspective of losing your entire life’s savings and social status makes it psychologically more stressful than the perspective of becoming more of a bum than you already were before.

Since the livelihood of poor people is already subsidized by the state, short of imprisonment there is little the state can do to punish or blackmail such people. And even imprisonment would mean that the state (meaning other people) keeps paying for their subsistence. That’s why revolutions are not performed by middle/upper class people, but typically by those who have nothing to lose.

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Alter Ego
Alter Ego
3 years ago

All my respect.
It isn’t quite as bad for us in Australia – yet. And we haven’t had to endure it so long, but I understand.
I know it hurts. They want it to hurt and it does. But they want it to break us, and it won’t.
We’re the ones standing up for the rights of the children and grandchildren of the compliant, despite the loss of so many rights of our own.
You’ve been doing that since October. You’re an inspiration.

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Deborah T
Deborah T
3 years ago

Is the Austrian Govt still saying that those who haven’t been vaccinated by April will be fined (approx) £3000 (and again a few weeks later if still unvaccinated) or imprisoned? (Reading your piece again, it suggests that answer to that is yes!) And, if so, does anyone know ANY way in which we can help the unvaccinated in Austria (crowdfunding, demos?)?

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FrankFisher
FrankFisher
3 years ago
Reply to  Deborah T

all the crowdfunding sites will steal your money, as gofundme tried to do with the Canadian truckers.

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rayc
rayc
3 years ago
Reply to  Deborah T

The plan is to fine you 600 Euro if you admit guilt quickly, 3600 Euro if you try to defend yourself in court. As far as I understand, this fine can be repeated, too.

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Ron Smith
Ron Smith
3 years ago
Reply to  rayc

I wonder what will happen with this new Court of public opinion?

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huxleypiggles
huxleypiggles
3 years ago

Austria is a shining star which shows the Western world that the C1984 is absolutely NOTHING to do with…err, C1984.

Our current Orwellian predicament has been forced upon us via the elusive virus but the mal intent should surely now be visible to the thickest of citizens – no apologies for my bluntness.

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peyrole
peyrole
3 years ago

My sympathy to you. I share your torment , France is very similar, with further tightening just as other countries begin the slow process of at least internal easing.
Our release valve has been the continuing escape to better environments, hoping that by the time we return to our home, things will have started to ease, but I am not sure about that. The EU advocating the use of the vax pass for another 12 months up to July 2023 is not exactly encouraging. No country is actually dismantling their ability to reimpose restrictions. No-one is following the ‘Florida’ example in practice and putting anti-restriction legislation in place.
Mr Fox commenting on here I know sounds depressing. But he is only telling the truth of what is going on in Europe in general, albeit there are some brighter spots. The vax pass appears to be here to stay for travel everywhere, and the UK cannot escape that. It is so easily expanded for financial and other uses. No government shows the slightest inclination to stop its Central Bank from developing digi currencies that incorporated into a pass will make slaves of us all.
The ‘full-nazi’ countries such as France, Italy, Austria, Germany even Greece need to be stopped from going further. I have some hope that leading up to the mid-terms in the US in November that we are in for a fairly benign period. But if the Dems keep the Senate , the screws could get tightened again next winter very very quickly.

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Star
Star
3 years ago

This is a great article, and Neil I would certainly help shelter you in Britain if asked.

Britain is at the moment a better place than Austria with regard to “Covid” restrictions, but people should beware of generalising too far from this. Austria is at least a neutral country and its rulers don’t seem about to sacrifice the sh*t out of it in the “heroic” fight to establish US military bases in pro-Israeli Ukraine.

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Ron Smith
Ron Smith
3 years ago
Reply to  Star

“I would certainly help shelter you in Britain if asked’

Yup second that!

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Bolloxed Britannia
Bolloxed Britannia
3 years ago

Austria, the birthplace of Adolph Hitler…Just scratch the surface of the national psyche eh!
For anyone that’s still not read RFK jnr magnificent, revelatory book on Fauci and Gates et al, especially the chapters on the suppression of HCQ and IVM, which includes the blow by blow zoom conversation between Dr Tess Laurie and Dr Andrew Hill…do so at your earliest convenience!

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Jonny S.
Jonny S.
3 years ago

From Big Brother Watch.

BREAKING: Covid passes have “unmeasurable” impactDear friends, 
Today, you should feel vindicated. 
We can finally reveal that ministers *knew* controversial Covid passes would have a “small, and probably unmeasurable” impact on public health when they imposed them. 
Despite this, Covid passes have been made mandatory – in Scotland, Northern Ireland, and Wales, where we are bringing a legal challenge to end the scheme.
Of course, we have already defeated Covid IDs in England.
Legal documents reveal the Welsh Government always expected the controversial Covid pass scheme to have a “small, and probably unmeasurable” impact on public health, following expert advice.
The truth is outWe don’t think mandatory Covid pass schemes can survive this. 
These revelations could have a huge impact across the UK, and even overseas.
The evidence is clear – a digital ID system that doesn’t tell you if you’ve got Covid or not does not make us more safe – it only makes us less free. 
The mandatory Covid pass scheme is due to be reviewed by Welsh Ministers tomorrow on Thursday 10th February. We are urging Welsh Ministers to scrap the scheme immediately. 
If not, we’ll see them in court. 
Secrecy…Welsh Ministers have refused to agree to our repeated requests to publish their legal correspondence. But tonight, we can finally publish our own legal grounds which quote from Welsh Ministers’ correspondence to us. In this way, we can reveal that Ministers’ expectations were that Covid passes “might” make “only a small, and probably unmeasurable” impact on Covid cases. 
This frank admission and inability to provide any evidence showing a certain positive impact of Covid passes came despite politicians provoking deep social division over the ID scheme, accusing opponents of being “grossly irresponsible” and even “putting lives at risk”. 
However, if Covid passes are having no noticeable effect on public health in Wales, as appears to be the case from our legal correspondence, the question begs how the mandatory scheme can be lawful.
To be clear: our legal correspondence has indicated that there was no evidence or clinical advice before ministers establishing that the Covid pass scheme would make any significant contribution to reducing Covid-19 transmission and infection; that such a significant contribution was likely; or even that there was a realistic possibility of such a significant contribution. In fact, the Welsh government indicated that Ministers were positively advised that it was unlikely that a Covid pass scheme would reduce Covid cases.
We are only able to uncover this vital information thanks to your incredible support.Mandatory Covid IDs are a totally unevidenced and unjustified intrusion of medical privacy, an erosion of freedom and a threat to equality. We will not stop fighting Covid passes until all the mandatory schemes are dropped.
We are now seeking a legal order quashing mandatory Covid IDs in Wales. This is a test case – we haven’t taken our eye off the rest of the UK.
PLEASE share this vital information far and wide. And please, help us continue our vital work – become a Big Brother Watch supporter today. We can’t do it without you. 
Thank you, 
Silkie

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Boomer Bloke
Boomer Bloke
3 years ago

That’s tyranny.

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FrankFisher
FrankFisher
3 years ago

Thanks for writing this. Your fight is our fight, I wish you well.

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HelenaHancart
HelenaHancart
3 years ago

Hold the line, Neil, with all those around you. Honestly, you are stronger than you know! Your power and truth are right with you. They can’t be removed. You will get through this.

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Free Lemming
Free Lemming
3 years ago

We are undoubtedly dealing with evil. The same evil that saw the Nazi’s thrive in WW2. And what allows that evil to come out into plain sight? The naturally submissive nature of the majority of ‘ordinary’ people – something that’ll never change, only be forgotten and buried.

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rayc
rayc
3 years ago
Reply to  Free Lemming

Yes, the trouble is that because of state propaganda and censorship those unaffected are not even imagining what other people are going through right now. Or worse, they are imagining that those who are persecuted somehow “deserve” it and that it is the victims’ own “decision” to be assaulted.

It’s a perfect example of how you can make “good” people commit evil deeds by either hiding or justifying violence.

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MizakeTheMizan
MizakeTheMizan
3 years ago

The amount of tyranny a country’s citizens face would seem to be directly correlated with the amount of WEF links their politicians have.

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Ron Smith
Ron Smith
3 years ago

“It still needs to get through the Constitutional Court which, typically, can take up to four months.”

So they’re ok for a few months then.

“Taking a stand against a totalitarian response to a virus”

More to do with profit and control….A global Coup D’ etat!

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Ron Smith
Ron Smith
3 years ago

Jeremy Vine today….The question was, “should we get tougher on the anti_vax groups, security services etc. They seem to be talking about the same sort of thing in the US…Limiting free discourse, what they define as a terrorist etc.

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Eric Olthwaite
Eric Olthwaite
3 years ago

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Eric Olthwaite
Eric Olthwaite
3 years ago

….

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Eric Olthwaite
Eric Olthwaite
3 years ago

…….

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Eric Olthwaite
Eric Olthwaite
3 years ago

………

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Eric Olthwaite
Eric Olthwaite
3 years ago

………….

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Oscarone
Oscarone
3 years ago

More or less the same situation in italy, apart from the fact that only unvaccinated over-50s will be fined (100 Euro).

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Virginia McGough
Virginia McGough
3 years ago

I note that, among other restrictions, the unvaccinated are denied access to hairdressers. Is this to demoralise them, or to make the more conspicuous or both?

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rayc
rayc
3 years ago
Reply to  Virginia McGough

You answered your own question, but it’s mostly to humiliate. Because with just a little practice you can cut your own hair (and save a ton of money over longer periods of time).

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Ron Smith
Ron Smith
3 years ago
Reply to  rayc

Same here…Not only saving money but don’t have to sit and wait!

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Alter Ego
Alter Ego
3 years ago
Reply to  rayc

The object appears to be a demonstration that you are powerless – that you can’t even get your hair cut professionally without state permission.
The “unvaccinated” are made daily reminders to the compliant of the need to continue their obedience. So they heap on the cruelty, because (as you pointed out earlier), we “deserve” it. We made the choice to disobey, so whatever punishment is devised is our own fault.
Friends of long standing advise that they won’t be able to see you any more, even as they agree that the “vaccinated” can also be infectious. Your world shrinks further.

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thorsteinn@sjonarrond.is
thorsteinn@sjonarrond.is
3 years ago

This is how a country turns fascist.

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Arum
Arum
3 years ago
Reply to  thorsteinn@sjonarrond.is

‘turns’? or ‘reveals itself to have been all along’?

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Sforzesca
Sforzesca
3 years ago

I have friends in Italy who are in a similar position.
No-one knows what further delights your governments/TRPTB have in store. Nor here in England for that matter. Civilisation/Christianity in its nicest sense seems to be hanging by a thread.

That said, you can be certain that you have right on your side. The other lot are beyond evil and will ultimately get what they deserve, in this world or the next (maybe both…).
Hold the Line, and don’t forget that there are far more of us than they would have you believe.

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Ron Smith
Ron Smith
3 years ago

“GAVI and the Gates Foundation outsourced this modelling work to a consortium led by Professor Neil Ferguson.”….The guy gets around!

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TSull
TSull
3 years ago
Reply to  Ron Smith

“Professor” Pantsdown has a model “he made earlier” for every possible scenario.

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David Beaton
David Beaton
3 years ago

God help Austria – under the jackboot of Evil Medical Tyranny!

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4PureBlood
4PureBlood
3 years ago

I am so sick of this covid aka great reset nonsense. But I undertake as a duty to inform people about facts about cheaply, effectively and qucikly curing this so called virus symptoms. Search for c19ivermectin on your search engine. On that website you will find as of right now there are 142 studies. 93 of them are peer reviewed about curing covid19 with ivermectin. These are undeniable evidences. Get your ivermectin before it is too late https://ivmpharmacy.com

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marebobowl
marebobowl
3 years ago

If Austria is really concerned about saving lives, why are they not using early treatments that are a huge success? That is right, a huge success at keeping people out of hospital and off ventilators and dying? What is going on Austria. Ivermectin, HCQ, Fluvaxomine, etc. follow FLCCC guidelines it is very straightforward. Don’t forget the word EARLY. If you wait for ten days, it is too late. Wake up Austria. Or is it possible Austria has been paid a lot of money to not follow this advice? No, that is a silly thought.

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Newman20
Newman20
3 years ago

I hadn’t realised that a second anschluss had taken place in Austria and that the little corporal was now in charge!

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janvanruth
janvanruth
3 years ago

remember : adolf was an austrian

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