Yesterday was a full blast 'talk' in the Bundestag over the idea of compulsory vaccinations. I'd suggest a read of Focus's article, to highlight some of perceptions.
I'll offer six observations here:
1. If you go back a full year....both Chancellor Merkel and candidate Scholz (now Chancellor) said 'NO' to the idea of compulsory vaccinations. Neither wanted to get so deep into this topic that you might divide the nation in a serious and toxic way. If you gaze at current numbers...it's roughly three-quarters of the nation vaxed-up, with boostered folks near 50-percent (it's kinda leveled off since Xmas).
2. From January of 2021.....there's a EU resolution sitting there (passed) that says you have the right to the vaccine, and a right to decline the vaccine. To mount some compulsory situation....you'd have legal challenges done by the EU court system.
3. The minute you get boosted-up, there's this clock ticking and the antibodies are on some downward sloop. Enough evidence exists to show that chunky-people (yes, fat folks) have a steeper decline than slim-Jim type folks. So if you went by science and facts.....you'd probably have to line up the chunky-people every ten to twelve weeks for another vax situation. I don't see that being a happy or agreeable national strategy.
4. The general catch on how they'd enforce this? Tax you so you pay more. If you look at the economic burden of people presently in this recession period....this would really sell in a negative way.
5. Just this odd factor....about every month....there's some massive change to the Covid ban-rules, which comes out of nowhere. If you were to compare this to a Monopoly game, which has roughly 30 general rules upon starting the game....presently at the two-year point....we've added 500 different rules....extinguishing 100 of them in some weird way, and insisted that the rules change....state-by-state.
6. Finally, there's this current mandate that all medical personnel and care-taker personnel (rest-homes) have to be vaxed-up by 15 March. There's a fair amount of evidence to show this mandate (supposed to be 100-percent) will not be achieved, and in some areas of Germany (particularly the eastern side)....it might create a massive show-down in medical services and rest-home operations....with people leaving their profession. It wouldn't shock me if some neighboring countries saw this as a opportunity to 'poach' some of the nurses.
In the end, I just don't see this going well. Almost a quarter of the nation isn't buying into the vax business, and to think you have some magical power to make them comply.....is worrisome. If this were a case where 97-percent of the population were vaxed-up and such a small group to contend with? Maybe it'd have better odds.
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