Covidistan Annals XX: Dissatisfaction w/Injection Mandates Grows, but Greens Have no Offramps--Bonus Feature: Media Shills for Gates & Wellcome
Who would've thought that the pro-injection mandate left-liberal (/irony) media wouldn't sell themselves to advocate for CEPI, the Big Pharma/Gates-and-Wellcome front that advocates universal jabs
Contrary to what is going in Northern Europe—most of Scandinavia is now mandate-free, with only a handful of technical aspects remaining—Central Europe’s wannabe medical tyrants are still very much up their own proverbial backside. While anti-government sentiment is on the rise everywhere—Freedom truckers were spotted in a number of European capitals, including Paris, Den Haag, and Brussels—it’s noticeable that Europe-the-continent is diverging, again, along historical precedents:
Northern Europe, as mentioned, is getting rid of Covid mandates, the British Isles are there, too, and so is—Switzerland: on Wednesday, 16 Feb. 2022, the Federal Council (Bundesrat, Switzerland’s government) ‘is determined to swiftly end all Corona mandates’, as per Zurich-based daily Der Tagesanzeiger (paywalled).
Southern Europe, too, appears to be inching towards a kind of resolution, with perhaps injection mandates and/or a small number of measures to be kept on the books ‘to protect the vulnerable’.
Sidenote: speaking of protection of the vulnerable, where was that thought with respect to our children? This madness masquerading as public policy response to all matters Covid-19 has had such a drastic impact on our future that it’s almost driving me mad with rage against the grown-ups who mistreated a generation of children to well a little bit safer themselves. Shame on them, for in no sane social formation do the adults pick on the kids for our own ‘safety’. It’s supposedly the other way round, fellow ‘grown-ups’, and that’s for a reason.
Central Europe, however, ‘led’ (again, oh the irony) by fanatical régimes in Berlin and Vienna, will maintain its stance. Yes, it is possible to find some slightly critical voices more often these days, but the main mantra remains—injections are the best-known way forward, no matter the evidence in databases such as VAERS, EudraVigilance, or the UK’s Yellow Card system, to say nothing about Israel.
With the stage thus set, let’s explore the weekend in Covidistan and find out what the geniuses who pretend to be running the country have been up to lately:
Régime Doubles Down in Spite of Criticism
That—or rather: it’s German equivalent—was the headline of a long-ish piece that was put out by Covidistan’s state broadcaster ORF on 10 Feb. 2022. ‘To be on the safe side of things’, that piece quote Social Democratic (SPÖ) chairwoman Pamela Rendi-Wagner, ‘is tantamount to a loud Yes! to the injection mandate’. Claiming that an injection rate of 90+ percent would get the country through the next autumn and winter, Rendi-Wagner—who once trained as a MD, no less—cited no evidence, but claimed that ‘it would take six months until full injection-induced protection is available’.
Let that sink in for a moment: the leader of Covidistan’s main opposition party, a trained physician, claimed on national TV (interview is linked in the above piece) that injection-induced protection would take ‘six months’ until fully realised.
I don’t know what to say other than: do these people actually read? I mean, it’s not as if the WaPo, of all places, didn’t report something else on this (it’s four months worth of ‘protection’, citing a new CDC study on this.
At the same time—and in the very same interview on national TV, Rendi-Wagner also chastised the régime to finally convene the expert advisory board envisioned (sic) by the injection mandate to evaluate whether or not the mandate is actually (still) needed (at this time.
Hence, keep in mind that the Social Democrats in Covidistan are constantly trying to up the ante to out-do the régime in terms of calling for (even) more coercive-intrusive mandates and measures. I’m unsure if this will be a winning issue in the upcoming elections, but given the sheep-like passivity of a sizable chunk of Covidistan’s inmates, it might at least not become a (too big) albatross, electorally speaking.
Anti-Injection Sentiment Spreads and Grows
Still, it’s not hard to see that the Injection Mandate is the albatross around the Green party’s neck, specifically Health Minister Mückstein’s neck. He’s very much on the record defending his ‘achievement’, which will certainly come back to haunt the Green party before too long.
Meanwhile, many state governors are expressing serious doubts, which is especially pronounced among the conservative’s: already on 9 Feb., Salzburg governor Wilfried Haslauer (ÖVP) called for a ‘suspension of the injection mandate’, if only because Omicron isn’t the killer variant it was made out to be when Mückstein proposed the mandate in December.
Almost ‘in response’, Der Standard, perhaps in an effort to help out the beleaguered Greens, put out a piece (rhetorically) asking ‘is the injection mandate still justified?’ You see, it wasn’t the ÖVP governor from Salzburg who questioned the mandate; there were also calls from SPÖ-governed Burgenland, albeit they were voiced by known intra-party critic Peter Doskozil (who has long been on the record criticising the party leadership over its inane policy proposals). Yet, as the editorial staff over at Der Standard are typically engaging in cheap partisan shilling for the Greens, a few representative quotes from that piece will suffice to inform you about ‘gist’ of the arguments (my emphases):
Legal scholars are divided on the issue. Constitutional lawyer Benjamin Kneihs, e.g., holds that compulsory vaccination is also possible as a preventive measure [which, in my view, needs a broad discussion as a medical intervention is not, say, the same as a harsh criminal code to prevent aggravated assault, battery, etc.]…medical law scholar Maria Kletečka-Pulker takes a different view: before imposing fines, it would be necessary to check again in mid-March whether mandatory injections were still justified at that moment…
As of right now, is still unclear when the evaluation board will meet for the first time and who will be part of it, which would be clarified in the next few weeks.
Furthermore, clarification by late March is also required as to what will happen with the free tests [lol, I mentioned this the other day: there’s no such thing as a ‘free’ test, it’s paid by taxpayer-money] once the federal government’s funding is scheduled to expire at that time.
Furthermore, the piece regurgitates the desired course of action for autumn/winter 2022/23 and beyond: incorporate Covid-19 into the existing influenza surveillance system.
On 10 Feb., the criticism became even louder. Led by ÖVP governor Thomas Stelzer, Landeshauptmann of Upper Austria, yet another conservative politician called for the suspension of the enforcement of the fees and penalties. The piece, which ran in Der Standard, also referenced comparable criticism emanating from Carinthia, Vorarlberg, Lower Austria, and Styria. Only SPÖ-run Vienna refrained from doing so.
Now, I don’t know if you’ve been keeping score on this one, but during the week after the injection mandate went into effect, but by now six out of nine federal state governors criticised the federal government. While that, in and of itself, is quite typical in (con-) federal political systems—and supremely traditional in Covidistan domestic affairs—the régime doesn’t appear to budge on this one.
As I’ve explained in my last dedicated post, there’s a rift between the political (mis-) fortunes of the two coalition partners (frenemies) that constitute the Committee of Public Safety:
For the Greens, whose leading politicos went all-in for the injection mandate, they can now only double down on this coercive intrusion, viz. Green parliamentary chieftain Sigrid Maurer’s helpless comment, as quoted by Der Standard: ‘hold still, chill out’ and ‘the timeframe [of the mandate’s implementation] is exactly as we planned it to be’ (which is hilariously stupid, as the mandate was scheduled to enter into force on 1 Feb., but only managed to get through parliament by 3 Feb. due to the sloppy drafting and the unprecedented number (almost 200K) of comments from the public.
For the ÖVP, there’s no real downside to having the Greens take a lot of flak for the mandate. I did keep the receipts, though, and I’d like to point out that the ÖVP is very much a co-conspirator against the people on this one. Also, keep in mind that the ÖVP’s ‘evolving’ stance is mainly due to electoral considerations, not to a change of heart or the like.
Unsurprisingly, the Green leadership is unequivocal in their support for the injection mandate. Here’s Mückstein on this: ‘The injection mandate isn’t to break the current Omicron wave [but] it’s a long-term prospective measure intended to increase population immunity levels to prevent lockdowns in the future’.
Let that sink in: the injection mandate was sold on—a steaming dung heap of lies, damned lies. Now, however, that particular cat is out of the bag, and there’s nothing that will change it.
As of now, however, current lead putschist Nehammer ‘didn’t have anything to add at this time’, although ‘science changes continuously: some experts are for the mandate, others are against it. Yet, in politics one must be firm in one’s stance’.
Finally, mention shall be made of the somewhat more resigned piece Der Standard published later that day (10 Feb.), which held that many governors—‘irrespective of their party affiliation’, as Gabriele Scherndl held, much to her (presumed) dismay—were voicing their concerns. (They do that, as mentioned above, for reasons of electoral politicking: Salzburg, Lower Austria, Carinthia, and the Tyrol will all hold state elections in spring 2023.)
Thus, Ms. Scherndl asks: what does that mean? Could the injection mandate fail at this late hour?
In her musings, ‘the core of that matter’ would be determined by the above-mentioned expert committee that is scheduled to meet soon and discuss whether or not the mandate is still justified. Here are Ms. Scherndl’s three scenarios:
The injection mandate may be suspended, provide the expert committee will recommend this course of action before mid-March.
Everything will work as envisioned by the mandate, i.e., fines to the tune of 600 € will be levelled from 16 March onwards, which will happen as long as ‘the injections are the best way forward’.
Or, ‘the situation escalates’, by which is meant that the law will be enforced, something which, Ms. Scherndl at least remembers, is also determined by (the lack of) technological capabilities (which state-owned social insurance company ELGA has stressed it cannot do ‘before April’) and the capabilities of both law enforcement and the courts.
If at this point you vaguely remember that the Constitutional Court has asked a lot of questions about the mandate and in particular the empirical data underlying it, you’re more knowledgeable than Ms. Scherndl, for she has omitted that ‘little’ factoid, thus I suspect in our day and age, her article should be considered ‘spreading misinformation’.
More on the Upside-Down
These are quite surreal developments, and it’s fair to say that Covidistan has breachd the absurdity horizon. State and party officials across the board have called for the suspension of parts of legislation that must be considered the most egregious break with established norms and precedents since at least Austria’s accession to the EU in 1995.
Still, read this carefully: the law—which I consider both #UNACCEPTABLE and, above all, illegitimate—may or may not be enforced by either police or the justice department. No-one so far is actually talking about abrogating it, i.e., another vote in parliament to make that piece of junk legislation go away. Interestingly, neither NEOS (the small libertarian faction that voted for the law but is voicing ‘second thoughts’ ever since) nor the FPÖ are actually calling for an abrogation of the law.
The only faction that’s vehemently opposed to the injection mandate is the newly-formed citizens’ protest party MFG, and they may actually end up in parliament, provided the Committee of Public Safety continues on its current trajectory.
As an aside, my concerns about the worst possible outcome—a partially suspended injection mandate coupled with more mRNA crap shots that will become available later this year and mandated via their ‘plus it works also vs. Covid’ promises—may still be the régime’s desired outcome: for once, it would somewhat defuse the heated situation right now, but it would also provide the Committee with ‘legal’ cover for such policies as summer morphs into autumn.
If you don’t believe me yet, here’s another snippet of evidence in support of my hypothesis. Magdalena Pötsch, also writing for Der Standard, had this to say late last week: ‘researchers are working on an injection that shall offer protection against variants old and new’. In her trash piece, Ms. Pötsch notes the ongoing efforts of BioNTech/Pfizer to develop a Omicron-specific booster injection, which may or may not work as advertised, but it will quite likely be mandated in Covidistan later this year.
Apart from that absurdity, Ms. Pötsch also mentions something else—and that is a ‘universal injection against all Coronaviruses’. Mention is made of a Walter Reed Army Institute of Research study or trial (the piece is unclear about this) since April 2021, but there’s also Jeffrey Taubenberger of the US NIAID (I haven’t really looked at this yet, but if you’d like to do, here’s the NIAID press release on this), and, finally, the Coalition for Epidemic Preparedness Innovations (or CEPI), your definitely all-Big Pharma-affiliated but make-believe super-philanthropic foundation that works tirelessly to vaccinate everyone on this planet.
So, Let’s Venture Down this particular Rabbit Hole
Interestingly, ‘even’ Wikipedia notes this in its first paragraph and even has a reflux-inducing picture of Jeremy Farrar with the caption ‘co-author of the concept of CEPI, and board member’. CEPI, by the way, is located in Norway (the irony), and while its website only provides financial statements on its funding ‘current’ as of 2018 (see here), guess who funds them:
What a surprise, ain’t it?
Speaking of ‘suprises’, here’s a more current document that shows ‘investments’ (as of 11 Feb. 2022):
‘Public investors’—mainly Spain and the EU Commission—fork over 164.82m $, whereas ‘private investors & philanthropies’ easily outspend the former to the tune of 327.5m $.
Yes, the usual suspects—the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation (which incl. ‘2.5m $…from Gates Philanthropy Partners’)—is there, but look at the line just above the ‘Other Private investors and philanthropies’ entry: the Wellcome Trust.
Also, CEPI is a trusted partner of the WEF and really very close to all these Bond-like super villains.
Note, finally, that the funding by Gates and Wellcome is directed towards CEPI 2.0, the second multi-year work program for 2022-26 (see here). I don’t have time for this right now, but we shall return to this topic before too long.
As always: stay strong vs. illegitimate mandates and remain—pro individual sovereignty.
You mentioned the kids.
What I can't get over is that the adults think they can work/socialise maskless because they are vaccinated. And yet it is clear that vaccination does not prevent infections.
Vaccinations reputedly reduce the risk of severe illness and yet kids already have a virtually zero risk of severe illness regardless of whether they are vaccinated or not.
There remains the fuzzy case of long-covid and this may be more associated with severity of illness but kids don't get severely ill. Besides which, studies claim vaccination reduces the chances of long-covid by most 50% or at worst 0%.
So, if:
it's not to protect the kids from infection;
it's not to protect the kids from severe illness;
it's not to protect the kids from long-covid;
it's not to protect the kids from death;
what exactly is the alleged public health justification for masking kids (mostly commonly cloth or surgical) while permitting politicians and others to work/socialise maskless???
Yesterday Alexander Soros, the son of George Soros (and a WEF Global Young Leader) was visiting our regime in Covidistan. Interesting timing as tomorrow the regime will discuss Covidistan’s „Freedom Day“. I did not believe this whole WEF, New World Order blahblah for a long time but from day to day I feel more and more like a „tinfoil hat-wearing conspiracy believer“.
More news from our insider who has friends in the ministry (sorry for bad English, I am too tired to translate the piece myself, therefore I used deepl which works suboptimally here):
„Immense power struggle in domestic politics before Wednesday's summit !!!
Spectacular Freedom Day in March with abolition of all measures to save the government or over months gradual lifting of the hysteria measures to serve the remaining core electorate of fear psychotics with a view to the new elections ?
Proponents of a preferably spectacular liberation blow , which had the upper hand only a few days ago , become pressurized from the brakemen and procrastinators from some federal states.
Mückstein wants to continue stubbornly , Rendi and Ludwig in the back .
Nehammer has orders from Lower Austria (Mikl-Leitner, the grey eminence of ÖVP) and strongest pressure from the West , where the powerful tourism people want to save Easter tourism .
The Styrians and Vorarlbergers are on the brakes , Burgenland and Carinthia want Freedom Day and stick knives into the backs of the „hysteria steel helmet faction“ in Vienna daily.
Kogler, in his rare sober hours, tactics with new elections or muddling through, and the powerful social partners want everything gone - they know that Austria's economy and labor market are on the ropes and need a liberating blow.
The crack goes through both government parties - who prevails, decides in the next 24 hours.
What the people want - and the people want FREEDOM - once again no one is interested.
At the moment it stands Fifty - Fifty all my sources say. I wouldn’t bet on nothing at the moment.“
Interesting times ahead, I guess. Our politicians behave like two-year olds. Wouldn’t be that bad if 8 million people would not suffer under their regime.