Austrian mess: blockade for the unvaccinated (in some areas), but who controls?
Austria is grappling with the fourth wave, or, much more trivially, with the "General Winter", so it tries to impose more restrictive rules, but it does so with a certain confusion and giving the impression of groping. Meanwhile, the cases have reached peaks equal to last winter, although the deaths are, fortunately, far fewer. Could it be that Covid is seasonal and all the measures are useless?
President Schallemberg would have said that soon the unvaccinated will only be able to go out for the shopping of essential goods, for work and for a walk, but it remains very smoky how this obligation can be controlled. Health Minister Wolfgang Mückstein has so far stated that from Monday there will be compulsory vaccination of health personnel. He also spoke of lockdown measures for the unvaccinated in Upper Austria and Salzburg, but was unable to clarify whether these measures will also be extended to the whole country. Furthermore, in the two aforementioned regions, demonstrations are forbidden until 6 December, the obligation to wear F FP2 masks outside is imposed and therefore limits to nighttime administration and in the markets. Quite a mess, especially since the controls won't be easy.
First of all, Austria has a lower percentage of fully vaccinated than, for example, Italy, so the famous lockdown for all unvaccinated people risks being a nice economic boomerang: only about 67% of the population has completed the cycle and no one wants to give up 33% of consumers over the Christmas period after a devastating winter. Secondly, the Austrians see the control of the G2 (ie the vaccination or recovery certificate) as an abuse: the unvaccinated citizens have said quite clearly that they are against the controls because "We are not criminals". We consider that the unvaccinated are mainly deprived of play activities, not of work, so the conditions we are talking about are enormously milder than in Italy.
In short, a nice mess in which the coalition government has gotten itself, rather contradictory. Meanwhile, demonstrations against the new measures have begun, for example in Linz:
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