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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