As of today, covid-19 jabs are compulsory for everyone over-18 in Austria. Austria is the first European country to make the jabs mandatory. It has caused outrage in the country with hundreds of thousands of protesters taking to the streets in opposition to the mandate.
The Mail Online is reporting today:
Austrians could be fined from €600 to €3,600 for not following the vaccination rule, which will become punishable from from mid-March, according to Austrian paper Kleine Zeitung.
Pregnant women and people who can’t be vaccinated for medical reasons are excluded from the mandate, which will expire in January 2024.
In December tens of thousands took to the streets of Vienna to protest against mandatory Covid vaccines and home confinement orders, as unvaccinated Austrians learned they would be fined and restricted in the coming months.
Police had estimated 44,000 people attended the demonstration which saw ‘no to vaccine fascism’ signs held aloft.
The Austrian government has blamed the protests on “extremists.”
Speaking to AFP, Austria’s domestic intelligence chief Omar Haijawi-Pirchner even claimed that right-wing extremists were travelling to Austria to “network” and that this was “very scary.”
He also said the protests were being used to spread hateful ideology such as anti-Semitism. Naturally, he wasn’t invited to provide any proof to support his claims.
They’re becoming increasingly desperate to shut down any dissent. Linking righteous opposition to medical mandates to antisemitism is a new low. It’s disgusting.
