Authoritarianism Returns to Austria

It’s all happened before, and it looks like it’s happening again

It’s been a week since my last post (due to work-related travel), and there’s so much going on, I don’t know where to start. So, why not with the most recent iteration of something very ugly that’s currently going on in Austria.

Given the (almost) unprecedented number of new ‘cases’ (positive Covid-19 tests) in Austria and everywhere else now that ‘vaccine’ failure is evident, there’s much more than meets the eye.

So, what has been happening in Austria since my last dedicated post?

At first, the government was mulling proposals to tie ever-more restrictive measures (which is used to conceal, at least from the most stupid people, that it’s actually a ‘lockdown’ by another name) to ICU occupancy rates. But that is so last week, for in the middle of this week, the government announced that they will also ignore their own plans.

Now, just yesterday evening, the government indicated a number of stringent restrictions: as of Monday, 6 Nov. 2021, among other things, most public spaces and venues—catering industry, services with close contact (hairdressers and the like) will only be available to ‘vaccinated’ or ‘recovered’ individuals. Furthermore, FFP2 (KN95) masking will become again compulsory in all shops and malls.

Here’s how Chancellor Schallenberg spoke about the third of his fellow-citizens who elected to forego ‘vaccination’ against Covid-19:

‘The whole thing is intended as an incentive. As a strong incentive for people to get vaccinated. We will therefore tighten the reins for the unvaccinated.’

Leaving aside the frankly unacceptable manner of addressing the sovereign (the people) of any self-styled democratic republic in that way, Austrian left-leaning daily Der Standard further explained:

‘However, a transitional period also begins to run from Monday [8 Nov. 2021]: For four weeks, the first jab in combination with a negative PCR test will also be deemed acceptable. From 6 December onwards, anyone who wants to go to a restaurant, an event or to a chiropodist must actually be double vaccinated.

In addition, the validity of the vaccination in the green [digital vaccination] passport will be curtailed: it will only be valid for nine (instead of previously twelve) months after the second jab, after which a third dose must be taken. A transitional period of three weeks applies here. Those who have received the single vaccine from Johnson & Johnson must provide proof of a booster vaccination [with a mRNA ‘vaccine’] from 3 January 2022.’

There’s a lot to unpack: legally, the government is forbidden from mandating experimental gene therapy products masquerading as ‘vaccines’, hence the ‘incentive’.

In any other vaccination context, medical professionals insist that using different products for, say, any kind of booster for, e.g., tick-borne encephalitis, should be avoided. This doesn’t seem to be the case with Covid. Weirdly enough, the responsible government minister, Dr. Mückstein, is actually a medical doctor, although his competence in that field (before his appointment, he was the president’s physician) as well as his questionable ethics must be noted.

Finally, Austria will enable a ‘booster’ shot from next week onwards as well as allow 5-11 year-old kids to legally get ‘vaccinated’, which, apart from the ethics involved, is about as horrible an idea as offering the ‘vaccines’ to women of child-bearing age (who have been excluded from the trials).

What, then, is to be done?