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Austria makes Covid19 vaccination mandatory as of Feb 2022

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Re: Austria makes Covid19 vaccination mandatory as of Feb 2022

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Are they also planning to implement a forced vaccination for the unwilling?

You do realize, a lot of vaccines are already mandatory all around the world right?

I guess now you mention it, needing a yellow fever jab to enter Outer Mongolia is a precedent. Not sure what all the fuss is about.

Any seatbelt analogies for us too?

Re: Austria makes Covid19 vaccination mandatory as of Feb 2022

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IMHO this is much better than all these "vaccination ID card" that many other countries have been implementing (including mine), which basically

A) effectively forces you to vaccinate anyway (unless you want to live like a monk)

B) means I have to show what is effectively an ID card everywhere I go (and I really mean everywhere), and the poor employees have to waste time checking it

Re: Austria makes Covid19 vaccination mandatory as of Feb 2022

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Are they also planning to implement a forced vaccination for the unwilling?

You do realize, a lot of vaccines are already mandatory all around the world right?

Maybe some of them are mandatory for a child after birth (though I question it because anyway doctors should get parent's signature to do it). But how could you force an adult who is totally ok with lockdown? Cut all access to basic necessities? Make police involved? How?

Re: Austria makes Covid19 vaccination mandatory as of Feb 2022

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A point a lot of people seem to miss is that there is a huge difference between making a vaccination mandatory, taking full responsibility for any side effects, and forcing people to get vaccinated by depriving them of their basic rights if they don't, but not taking any responsibility for side effects.

Re: Austria makes Covid19 vaccination mandatory as of Feb 2022

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Are they also planning to implement a forced vaccination for the unwilling?

You do realize, a lot of vaccines are already mandatory all around the world right?

Yes, I realize. Not against vaccines in general. I only wanted to know the extent to which the government is going to enforce it as in whether they fine you, put you to jail or vaccinate you forcibly against your will. I heard that the latter is already happening in Australia and personally know a person who fled to the EU for this reason.

Re: Austria makes Covid19 vaccination mandatory as of Feb 2022

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

You do realize, a lot of vaccines are already mandatory all around the world right?

I guess now you mention it, needing a yellow fever jab to enter Outer Mongolia is a precedent. Not sure what all the fuss is about. Any seatbelt analogies for us too?

Abortion would be the closer analogy.

Also seatbelts don't require the sort of tracking infrastructure that a vaccine mandate requires. If the plan is a mandate with no tracking then that would be in the realm of comfortable precedent for me. But the experience so far in Australia (not Austria!) is that vaccine mandates are the most invasive privacy violation that the government has ever implemented.

Re: Austria makes Covid19 vaccination mandatory as of Feb 2022

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As an Austrian I'd like to note: We've also previously had a vaccination mandate for smallpox. There's a precedent here, at least.

Whether you're for or against a vaccination mandate I leave up to debate. But either we get everyone vaccinated or everyone needs to actually follow proper COVID rules. The second option hasn't worked out great so far, as you might be able to tell.

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