Thursday, December 24, 2020

French Story

 If you follow French news....around two weeks ago (early December)....some group did polling to discover that 46-percent of French people said they wouldn't take the vaccine.

About a week after that news item came out....a ethics-PhD type guy came out with a comment that in this case, you had to reject all people who did not have the vaccination in terms of public transportation (meaning no bus entry/use, or train use).  

This kinda set French folks off.  Its safe to say that they reacted in a pretty harsh way and suggested they wouldn't be that cooperative with this type of rule.

Today, the French health minister did a small public talk and basically said they'd never go making up such a rule.  To be honest, I suspect if you asked the police....they probably said in a blunt way they've plenty of work and didn't want to go challenging people for their 'vaccine card'.

This brings me to this odd discussion item.  Around various European countries....the vaccination isn't selling that well.  In the Netherlands, around 14-percent say 'no way', with around a third of the population saying they want to see a bunch of folks getting it before them.

With the Spaniards?  It's about two-thirds being positive on the vaccination.  With the Brits?  It's around 80-percent.  

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