Austria makes Covid19 vaccination mandatory as of Feb 2022
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Re: Austria makes Covid19 vaccination mandatory as of Feb 2022
#2Translated with www.DeepL.com/Translator (free version) :
Austria is the first country in Europe to introduce mandatory Corona vaccination for all. The announcement was made by Chancellor Alexander Schallenberg following the government's meeting with state governors at Achensee in Tyrol. The mandatory vaccination will come into force on February 1. Due to the sharp rise in the number of infections and the overload of hospitals, a lockdown will be imposed across the country for 20 days starting Monday. After that, recovered and vaccinated people will be exempt from the lockdown.
Chancellor Alexander Schallenberg regretted that not enough people could be convinced of the usefulness of vaccination. He said the government had waited too long for people to voluntarily get vaccinated. In view of the many dead, sick and overburdened hospitals, there was now no other way out than compulsory vaccination. Unfortunately, many people had been deterred from vaccination by false news from radical opponents of vaccination. The Corona virus remains. The vaccination is until now the only means to be able to live halfway normal despite the virus.
Austria is suffering from a massive fourth wave of infection, which could not be broken with the measures taken so far.
Re: Austria makes Covid19 vaccination mandatory as of Feb 2022
#3Are they also planning to implement a forced vaccination for the unwilling?
Re: Austria makes Covid19 vaccination mandatory as of Feb 2022
#4Had a heart attack thinking this was Australia.
Re: Austria makes Covid19 vaccination mandatory as of Feb 2022
#5Are 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?
Re: Austria makes Covid19 vaccination mandatory as of Feb 2022
#6Austria has it especially hard since they earn a lot of money from outside tourism during the winter ski season, which is the prime season for higher covid numbers and hospitalization overload. Its a desperate measure as they seem to loose at least half of the winter season this year again.
Re: Austria makes Covid19 vaccination mandatory as of Feb 2022
#7Are they also planning to implement a forced vaccination for the unwilling?
No, but there will be fines ("Verwaltungsstrafen", which can be converted to "Ersatzfreiheitsstrafen" - jail time - if you are unable or unwilling to pay).
Re: Austria makes Covid19 vaccination mandatory as of Feb 2022
#8sorry for the original source it was the first place reporting on it while the news were announced. here are 2 stories from 15 mins ago in English:
https://www.politico.eu/article/austria-mandatory-coronaviru...
https://www.ft.com/content/ea306f29-4857-4fa4-9c9d-f3d8aed5d...
Re: Austria makes Covid19 vaccination mandatory as of Feb 2022
#9From the country that brought us Mozart, World War 1, Wittgenstein, Gödel, Hitler. So this is either a brilliant or horrible idea ^^
Re: Austria makes Covid19 vaccination mandatory as of Feb 2022
#10People either have a reduced risk of infecting themselves and others like the vaccines provide it or they do not. Reality does not care about believes and concerns. If one ignores reality for too long, it will biff one right on the nose.