They'll do nothing. They have hundreds of billions of dollars worth of LNG infrastructure built to funnel natural gas from the arctic and Siberia throughout all of Europe. They have decades-long deals in place that contractually obligate them to Russian energy. They've pushed themselves into a corner with insane renewables-based energy policies, and left the Russians as their only source of baseload energy for the foreseeable future. They fucked themselves.
Both governments have absolutely retarded energy policies. France has been slowly winding down its aging fleet of reactors for some time now, and trying to replace them with renewables. There's a certain logic to it if you're not forward-thinking. Nuclear plants are huge investments, and renewables are comparably cheap and fast to get up and running. The trade off is, of course, that they aren't reliable and don't fucking work.
The Germans increased their carbon footprint a few years ago because their renewables were faultering and they had to bring coal plants back online to make up the difference.
Meanwhile Putin has Europe by the balls as he extends Russia's natural gas network west through France. France and Germany have been shutting down nuclear plants and ceding energy independence to a hostile foreign power. I cannot conceive of more feckless governance than to fail to provide basic energy security for your people. It's literally more important than healthcare.
I've had people point blank tell me they wish the disease was worse and the vaccines were better, so anti-vaxxers would be dying in the streets. Even just the irony and lack of self awareness of their statements makes me mad.
It's all so tiresome and predictable. My only hope is that at some point people gain an awareness that the disease has had *zero *impact in their lives. None. If it weren't for all the hysteria, the containment measures, the constant media fearmongering, this whole thing would've passed through and been gone and no one would've noticed. Some nurses would bitch about overrun ICUs, just like they did in 2017, and no one would've cared. What a total waste of energy.
...our analysis provides evidence for an increased risk of infection by the Beta, Gamma, or Delta variants compared to the Alpha variant after full vaccination, regardless of the vaccine used. This indicates lower vaccine effectiveness against infection with the Beta, Gamma and Delta variant compared to the Alpha variant.
The effect is most pronounced in the following 2-4 weeks after vaccination, though immunity against alpha is still mitigated (largely irrelevant since alpha is no longer dominant in the wild).
These results track with an Israeli study published in BMJ which, once again, showed an increase in infectivity post vaccination for a limited window.
This hasn't passed peer review (and even that isn't the vaunted gold standard for study credibility) so take it with a preliminary grain of salt. But it largely tracks with evidence from other studies and trends - the first couple months post-vaccination appears to increase infectivity amongst those with the jab, with the vulnerability falling off for the next few months. This is true across all the vaccines on market. You're practically creating new cases with every forced surge of boosters. I know people have been ringing the ADE alarm for a long time but the trends are starting to come into focus. Will be interesting to follow, at least.
Perhaps. I missed it. The government has an incredibly weak case here though. And there's tremendous pushback in amicus briefs, some of which are well authored and attack the mandate from all kinds of angles, and the court will have to process those arguments too.