Below is a series of tweets from a man named Gluboco Lietuva in Lithuania. He shares his experience as an outcast in his country because he and his wife refuse to take the COVID jab. Now all freedom is lost to the people in charge.
With no Covid Pass, my wife and I are banished from society.
We have no income.Banned from most shopping.Can barely exist.
But we will not accept authoritarianism.
Here’s how life looks after one month in Lithuania,under Europe’s first strict,society-wide Covid Pass regime:
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My wife and I have been suspended without pay for 4 weeks.
We can’t return to our jobs.
Not sure our employers would let us back.
Even if they did, our colleagues despise us, wish on social media for our death. Nothing we can do will ever erase that. We can’t work there.
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We can’t find new jobs in our professions.
My wife and I have very different jobs in very different fields. But all jobs in both our fields now require the Covid Pass.
No Pass, no job.
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We’re not allowed to buy food in the local supermarket.
We may only shop in small stores with street-facing entrances which mainly sell food,pharma,glasses/contacts, or farming/pet supplies.
In our area, that effectively limits us to one small, expensive convenience store.
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The Pass has wreaked havoc with the free market.
Supermarkets which require the Pass report shopper traffic is down 25% in the month since the Pass was imposed.
But in the small stores where the Pass isn’t required, it’s up only 0.7%.
So where have the shoppers gone?
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We now buy food in old Soviet-style markets: outdoors, in parking lots, products sold on street, tiny tables, or from back of cars. Produce, eggs, cheese, meat, fish. Cash only. No Pass required.
Not as convenient as a supermarket. But it works for now. Life finds a way.6/Image
I need to make some home repairs. But without a Pass, I can’t enter the hardware store to buy supplies.
I can’t call for a repair worker because repairs are banned for non-Pass holders. And I have no income now to pay for outside help anyway.
So our home stays unrepaired.
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Except most of that is rubbish.
Essential shops are still allowed (so dont need soviet style car park markets).
Repairs would be allowed.
They can also get a lateral flow if they don't want a vaccine.
Its awful, but doesn't need that exaggeration. It just detracts from the real issues.
Go here for the on-paper facts (I put it like that because how this works in the real world is another question):
https://koronastop.lrv.lt/en/covid-19-related-restrictions-1
That's linked to from the Lithuanian government's page here:
Note: this is official information; it is not journalism.
Non-holders of what is described as the "National Certificate (Covid Passport)" are banned from
* "access to non-essential stores",
* "access to stores whose main activity is the retail of food [...] and whose sales area is above 1500 sq m" (that would include any large supermarket)
They are, at least for now, allowed to use public transport.
It seems to be test results that are required for the NC, not vaccination. (See page at first link above.)
So unlike the claim they can quite freely go shopping, travel, work and have repair people come around.
They do not need to be vaccinated.
Exaggeration detracts from any valid message.