Austria hits panic button.

Your all drama.

The Hospitals are full, when a bed comes available and there are a number of covid patients needing it all things being equal the vaccinated person should get it over the unvaccinated.

Your drama about denying treatment is not what anyone is saying, its prioritising the limited resources correctly.

If someone is willing to make the choice to take no precautions to protect themselves, (which i dont object to) then they should be waiting in line behind the person who did take the obvious and very free vaccination to protect themselves.

The other side of this is that people who knowingly went unvaccinated are taking the limited medical capacity needlessly away from people who need it and did all they could.

They're talking about random spot checks I believe. Think I saw one here (Berlin) earlier todayand I'm not even sure there's been word of any lockdown.

The other option is to get everyone who isn't vaccinated to wear a badge of some sort... Something like a yellow star...

Christ above, I really hope you don't believe the very words you put up here. Doesn't get much more dramatic than this.

We've been through 4 lockdowns now where the numbers have been considered "out of control" a "public health crisis"! And yet less than 10% of the population have contracted the virus (which I believe to be an overestimation given how quick they were blame the virus on everything). And many of whom never even got any symptoms. No disrespect to those or the families of those who have died, but the severity/seriousness of the virus has been vastly exaggerated and the dogs in the street could tell you that the problems stem from how poor your health system is. The virus is like the spot light for awful health systems in the world.

Yet again, the government are upping the rhetoric on the "antivaxrs". They are looking at austria and drooling at how they created a boogeyman out of our local "anti-vaxr". Lockdowns for the unvaccinated are just around the corner here too and in future it will be lockdowns for whoever hasn't their covid cert up to date regardless of if you recieved the initial dose or not.

If definitely does.

Its simply with limited resources you want the best outcomes from them.

Many of us will have been in these situation. I'm glad you haven't.

What's the story with Sebastian Kurz? I see he had to resign on some corruption charge a month ago. Were any of these measures introduced under his watch?

Are you one of those types who think one death is too many therefore lockdowns, no matter how severe, are justified? Do you think all the lockdown related suicides are justified? Do you think death and the myriad of other shocking side effects of the vaccine are justified?

A lockdown on the unvaccinated would create chaos. You do realise that a lockdown on the unvaccinated would harm you just as much? There would be spot checks by gardai everywhere you go. A real sick life that you feel is justified despite us having no evidence to suggest it would save lives.

So many people have lost the complete run of themselves with this dose.

You're just describing triage. That happens all the time, but I can't see how vaccination status would have any bearing on it. If someone is presenting for at an A&E/ED and they have COVID, it makes little difference to their prognosis whether they were vaccinated or not.

Lol, you couldn't make it up

"The Austrian decision to lock down unvaccinated people and make vaccinations mandatory from 1 February 2022 has caused anger in some quarters.

Reuters writes that pushback to the new rules has been led by the far-right Freedom party, whose leader Herbert Kickl posted a picture on Facebook with the inscription: “As of today Austria is a dictatorship.”

The party is planning a protest on Saturday, but Kickl cannot attend because he has tested positive for Covid.

Roughly two-thirds of those eligible in Austria are fully vaccinated, one of the lowest rates in western Europe. Its infections are among the highest in Europe, with a seven-day incidence of 991 per 100,000 people.

“We have not succeeded in convincing enough people to get vaccinated,” Austria’s chancellor, Alexander Schallenberg, told a news conference, saying the lockdown would start on Monday. “It hurts that such measures still have to be taken.”"

You know full well that he is referring to the socialist dreamland that you would love to live in. Halt! Papiere bitte! Schnell, schnell!

Nothing to fear if you have nothing to hide I suppose?

They are allowed to work.

Unvaccinated people are allowed essential travel for e.g work or food shopping

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-59283128

I'd wager 90+% of the pop will be vaccinated by then easily and I wouldn't be surprised if they didnt follow through

What's the crime in not being vaccinated for covid? Only people infected with covid can spread it, vaccinated or not. unvaccinated does not mean infected. or are we just labeling people criminals based on "crimes" they can potentially commit? In that case all of us are criminals then. Are we living in Minority Report now? Seems like it. Any end date, or is it a permanent state of emergency and forced vaccinations every 5 or 6 months?

Ok then.

2020 called, it wants its hysteria back.