Some positive news at least for some of us: the German Bundestag (equivalent of the US house) just voted against mandatory vaccination.
The government coalition tried to make the vax mandatory for everyone age 18 and above. They started losing support as protests kept going for months. As more and more representatives jumped ship they tried to raise the age to 50 a couple of days before the vote. When that didn't generate enough support they raised it to 60 mere hours before the vote.
Today they finally voted: 296 representatives voted for it, 378 against
I'm honestly surprised because the party that was one of the biggest pushers a few months ago (CDU) voted against it. I guess they finally realized they're in the opposition now.
Maybe this shit will start up again next flu season. Maybe they'll start with a vax database first. Either way, for now, the general mandate is dead.
https://www.thelocal.de/20220310/germany-pledges-to-stick-with-vaccine-mandates-despite-austria-u-turn/
According to this article, there are two vaccination mandate bills to be put forward this month. Assuming they haven't been merged into one, is this second bill still to be voted on?
They've been consolidating proposals in the last few days as it became more and more likely that a general mandate for everyone didn't have enough support.
As I understand it, the last remaining proposals were from the SPD-Grüne-FDP coalition with a mandate for people aged 60+ (that failed), a proposal from the CDU opposition with some kind of vague conditional mandate in the future (that died too and wasn't even supported by parts of their own party) and a couple of proposals against any kind of mandate from smaller parties (not sure if they still voted on those but they wouldn't have passed anyway).
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Restrictions and mandates are going away in a lot of places now, but we've seen that twice in the last two years already.
I wonder if it's going to come back after US midterms in fall. I'm sure our betters would like that, but at the same time, at that point the people will probably be really pissed about other things that will be going on at that point - unceasing massive inflation, housing crisis massively exacerbated by hundreds of thousands of new Ukrainian refugees, fuel and energy prices through the roof, people losing jobs in industries, not even because factories can't afford energy but because there just isn't any to spare for them. Things like that tend to give people some perspective, so the elites might tone it down so the NPCs don't wake up and start putting heads on spikes. Who knows.
We'll see. Germany will likely be the last country where heads end up on spikes, unless the state-run media tells them to, and it won't be the government's heads.
After all, half of Germans think a mandatory vax would be the way out of the pandemic.
Germany also got rid of mask mandates last weekend (with some exceptions). I've only been to a hardware store so far and about 2/3 went shopping without a mask. Others are reporting that 90%+ of people in supermarkets are still wearing masks.
I guess I'll see tomorrow. Maybe it just takes a while for people to realize the mask mandate is really gone, or they need enough others to make the first step because we're a society of yes-men ... sorry ... yes-men*womXn.
You mean hordes of illegal migrants from the southern border, and African muslims posing as Ukrainians.
What do you mean Achmed isnt a Ukrainian name?
I'm fucking glad the Germans decided to hold back a little on the overwhelming authoritarianism.
"Hans, are we the baddies again?"
Right now, Germany has bigger fish to fry...if they can find the oil.
Bro, cmon bro. You have to get vaccinated bro. It's to save society. People are dying bro. You have to do it if you are 18 bro. 50? Okay 60?
Everyone there probably already got it anyway.