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Austria unvaccinated lockdown

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MRex · 12/11/2021 18:19

How is this expected to actually work in practice? I have only seen basic UK news articles, interested mostly to understand the practical implications.

Personal views without knowing detail: I simply don't see any way this can be achieved without infringing on personal freedoms of unvaccinated and vaccinated quite significantly. I'm very pro-vax in general and for covid, but I hope the UK doesn't start anything like this, seems like it would just have anyone digging their heels in and cause a lot of social unrest issues.

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Dishhh · 22/11/2021 23:24

@Lostinacloud

There have been protests in france every Saturday for 15 weeks. They are not anti-vax or far right, they are ordinary people afraid of where this situation is heading and upset about the loss of their bodily autonomy and freedom of choice. Every last protest has been peaceful until the police appear to have been told to provoke some groups and use very handed tactics and only at that point did some slight disturbance take place on the fringes. The reason why these protests are so peaceful is due to the demographic attending them. Ordinary families of many generations, not fixated on anti establishment ideals, literally just calling for an end to the unfair discrimination which see unvaccinated people banned from most public spaces unless they have a €25 test every 3 days.

"Every last protest has been peaceful until the police appear to have been told to provoke some groups and use very handed tactics and only at that point did some slight disturbance take place on the fringes."

Really? This sounds like something a teenager might say. "Yeah - the party was quiet until this other group turned turned up to provoke us and only then did things get a bit heated. On the fringes. Slightly."

Lostinacloud · 23/11/2021 09:56

I may sound like a teenager to you but it really is the case. Ministers even announced in the news that they’d told enforcement officers to get tougher on protesters.

Lostinacloud · 23/11/2021 09:58

The police were accompanying the parade routes holding their riot masks in their hands for a while. Suddenly, they started arriving in full riot gear with shields and batons and water cannons. There had been no previous change to mood or peacefulness amongst protesters.

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