Footnote 13: a family doctor in Covidistan wishes to treat only 'jabbed or recovered' in-house, all [unclean] people may only be treated in the parking lot

Meet Peter Balas, MD, a general practitioner in Covidistan, who wishes not to be treating patients without a 'Covid Passport' or a current PCR test--ethics aside, the trick question is: is this legal?

And now this happened: according to his website, one Peter Balas, MD, a Covidistan-based general practitioner (GP) and family doctor in one of Vienna’s upper middle-class suburban municipalities, recently changed his policy in the following manner:

The highlighted section reads (bold emphases in the original; my emphases in Italics):

Effective immediately, we kindly inform our patients that access to the clinic’s premises is conditional on 2G proof (i.e., recovered or vaccinated) or a current PCR test no older than 72 hours.

If you do not meet these criteria, please call us from the parking lot (tel. 02231/65043).

Examination and treatment will then take place in your car. Thank you for your understanding.

Dr. Balas and his team.

There is apparently no ceiling to either the level of absurdity Covid-19 will ‘motivate’ people or the bottomless pit that once used to be called ‘shame’ (or, if your impression of humankind is better than mine, use the concept ‘honour’ here).

A Brief Trip Down Memory Lane

Thinking about both issues, I also wonder where, in recent months, I may have seen comparable monstrosities…oh, yes, right: Buchenwald Concentration Camp (see here):

To conclude this absurdity, here’s a trick question for those legally inclined: is such a differentiation based on presumed infection status actually legal?

A ‘Tricky’ Legal Question

For guidance, we shall turn to the Covidistan medical legislation (online, see here; emphases mine), specifically §49 (1):

A physician is obliged to conscientiously care for every healthy and sick person he or she consults or treats, without individual differentiations. He/she shall continuously undergo further traning…and shall safeguard the well-being of the sick and the protection of the healthy in accordance with medical science and experience and in compliance with the existing regulations and dedicated standards of care.

Now, the way I read this, I’m pretty certain that Dr. Balas is breaking the law, in particular with respect to the well-established absence asymptomatic transmission of Covd-19, a bunch of professional ethics, and the supremely illogical notion of citing (implicit) support for Covidistan’s (failing) policies as reason for breaking the law.

Here’s what I think we can all do:

Thankfully, Dr. Balas left his phone number there—I shall thus call him tomorrow and enquire about the above section of the law and keep you updated on this one.

If you wish to drop Dr. Balas a likeminded message of enquiry, do peruse the contact form on his website (I just did so).

This entire totalitarian nightmare won’t go away if no-one speaks up.

Join us.