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Wow. It's almost like the court wants to know if those restrictions and mandates actually make sense.

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Jan 31, 2022·edited Jan 31, 2022

GO Austria Court GO! It could be disrupting for all the other EU Const. Courts as here in Italy or the EU Supreme that so far have supported the mainstream media and governments narrative. And doing so they trashed, for cryptocurrencies I guess, all main Constitutional laws regarding health and freedom of choice rights. For sure Mr.Draghi has more than one crypto account...

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Keeping my fingers crossed that the constitutional court continues growing a spine and puts an end to their nonsense. If it happens in Austria then that combined with the US Supreme Court striking down Biden's OSHA mandate might spur on other challenges in places like Germany and France. If those bastions of biotyranny break then so too might other places like Canada and Australia and New Zealand. Perhaps we may even hope for saner policies going forward globally.

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I have lost any trust in Austrian‘s officials and therefore I don’t think that the questions from one(!) FPÖ judge will change anything. That‘s not a letter from all Supreme Court judges but only from one. Rest of them seems to be in deep slumber.

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Thank you for that run down. So what the court is asking is "Show us the facts you have based your decisions on". Understandable, since many other nations (such as Norway, Denmark and the UK) have very detailed information on cases, death, etcetera and are like enough to make comparisons valid.

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And although regime-loyal media might downplay this, the austrian politicians peers within the EU will be keeping their eye on the response - I'm speculating but it wouldn't surprise me if there is a certain amount of frantic teleconferences happening this week, so as to "give a unified response in order to avoid confusion".

Because these differences in reporting from the various EU-provinces while be used as a cause for enforcing a united system not only as a compliment to the national systems but instead of them, with no public access to data.

Top billing in Sweden's state media is the handball championship. Panem et circenses never goes out of style.

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Thanks for this. I think the incidental ICU numbers will be interesting as well!

https://nakedemperor.substack.com/

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I think if the answers to number 7 on the vaccines are widely published/read it could really surprise some people with regard absolute/relative risk reductions and the issue of the 14-day post vaccination period.

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I did not know Norway even had a court system...

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