Just another 'regular' day in Covidistan, with lots of on-the-ground bits and pieces legacy media might cover, but which is typically, and easily so, disregarded by those who wield the levers of power
Reports Czech courts have today found 2G rules (access restricted to vaccination/recovered status) in gastronomy unconstitutional. I am trying to find more coverage but apparently the judge ruled, the purpose of such restrictions cannot be to pressure people to get vaccinated. Of course, this seems to implicitly suggest that such restrictions were not reducing the spread of the pandemic. The judge also stated that it is not permitted to simply suspect people because of their vaccination status when they are not even symptomatic. Thank you, constitutional protections of liberal democratic states! Now, come on Austrian and German courts ;)
And thank you, epimetheus, for all your reporting and for engaging in the comments section.
Okay, I first read about the Czech thing here. Then I checked the Czech media - nothing. Figured it was fake news. Nope! I see it now (over on Český rozhlas), hours after you posted about it. Gee. Or rather: good!!
I'm a foreigner, you see, and so I don't orient myself that well in the Czech media. But I guess Český rozhlas is something like a Czech CNN... Gee.
Covidistan is covidistaning hard. Anecdote from my current life as a highly qualified unemployed person (due to lockdown mandates unfortunately). A lot of companies don’t employ unvaccinated anymore, regardless of their qualifications. It‘s absolutely depressing… I hope that this whole Covid-shit-thing crushes down soon, otherwise I don’t know how to finance my life in the future…
It is depressing to read the statements by politicians. Their view of democracy seems to be that the people vote, and then the people are to acquiesce to whatever the politicians decide the people should do. And should the people protest or refuse, the people are anti-democratic and in the wrong.
That is not the attitude of a person - regardless of party or ideology! - who sees democracy as more than just an administrative formality. That is the attitude of the bureaucrat and the technocrat couching her lust for a true demokratur, rather than "by the people, for the people".
It is doubly depressing because all over the EU (or the EUSSR as it is increasingly known) and the rest of the West, this attitude prevails. Here, people are voting against wind turbines in local referendums: +75% against!, and the local politicians as well as those on the national and EU level call it antidemocratic. And are trying to change the law so that popular local referendums need not be adhered to.
If democracy only means that you may vote, GDR, Irak under Saddam, Palestine, DPRK, China, Iran and so on are democracies.
Reports Czech courts have today found 2G rules (access restricted to vaccination/recovered status) in gastronomy unconstitutional. I am trying to find more coverage but apparently the judge ruled, the purpose of such restrictions cannot be to pressure people to get vaccinated. Of course, this seems to implicitly suggest that such restrictions were not reducing the spread of the pandemic. The judge also stated that it is not permitted to simply suspect people because of their vaccination status when they are not even symptomatic. Thank you, constitutional protections of liberal democratic states! Now, come on Austrian and German courts ;)
And thank you, epimetheus, for all your reporting and for engaging in the comments section.
P.S. I'm a Hiberno-Celt settled in Bayern
Okay, I first read about the Czech thing here. Then I checked the Czech media - nothing. Figured it was fake news. Nope! I see it now (over on Český rozhlas), hours after you posted about it. Gee. Or rather: good!!
I'm a foreigner, you see, and so I don't orient myself that well in the Czech media. But I guess Český rozhlas is something like a Czech CNN... Gee.
Covidistan is covidistaning hard. Anecdote from my current life as a highly qualified unemployed person (due to lockdown mandates unfortunately). A lot of companies don’t employ unvaccinated anymore, regardless of their qualifications. It‘s absolutely depressing… I hope that this whole Covid-shit-thing crushes down soon, otherwise I don’t know how to finance my life in the future…
It is depressing to read the statements by politicians. Their view of democracy seems to be that the people vote, and then the people are to acquiesce to whatever the politicians decide the people should do. And should the people protest or refuse, the people are anti-democratic and in the wrong.
That is not the attitude of a person - regardless of party or ideology! - who sees democracy as more than just an administrative formality. That is the attitude of the bureaucrat and the technocrat couching her lust for a true demokratur, rather than "by the people, for the people".
It is doubly depressing because all over the EU (or the EUSSR as it is increasingly known) and the rest of the West, this attitude prevails. Here, people are voting against wind turbines in local referendums: +75% against!, and the local politicians as well as those on the national and EU level call it antidemocratic. And are trying to change the law so that popular local referendums need not be adhered to.
If democracy only means that you may vote, GDR, Irak under Saddam, Palestine, DPRK, China, Iran and so on are democracies.