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.
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.