Would you support lockdowns for the unvaccinated ?

Austria is days away from ordering millions of unvaccinated people to stay at home, its chancellor has said, in a rare move that underscores the increasing exasperation of European leaders towards those who have not yet been inoculated against Covid-19.

Under Austria's plan, which was agreed in September, unvaccinated Austrians will face a stay-at-home order once 30% of intensive-care beds are occupied by Covid-19 patients. The current rate is 21%, according to the Austrian Agency for Health and Food Safety (AGES), and a surge in infections has pushed it up quickly.

Unvaccinated people are already excluded from entertainment venues, restaurants, hairdressers and other parts of public life in Austria. If the new measures come into place, the unvaccinated will be ordered to stay home except for a few limited reasons; the rules will be policed by officers carrying out spot checks on those who are out.

Around 65% of Austria's population is fully vaccinated against Covid-19, one of the lower rates in the European Union.
''It is clear that this winter will be uncomfortable for the unvaccinated," Chancellor Alexander Schallenberg warned on Thursday.

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TheWhippersnapper

If the vaccine doesn't defend you from getting the virus or spreading it then I do not see the point in enforcing it. Yes it may make the symptoms less severe in which case if you don't get the vaccination and you get Covid that is your fault.

I don't think people should be isolated for choosing not to whether they believe it is a fraud or not. It's not like it is people's faults for being suspicious considering the amount of claims that have been made against the vaccine whether they are true or not.

The vaccine doesn't prevent the virus it just lessens its effects therefore I don't think people should be segregated for not getting the injections. It kills as far as I have heard less than two percent of the people who catch it which makes it incredibly suspicious that a vaccine that never passed animal trials has been distributed and pressured on people so quickly.

Elessar · 26-30, M

@TheWhippersnapper The fact it doesn't do with a 100% efficacy doesn't mean that it "doesn't protect you".

People still occasionally die in car crashes even with a seatbelt, yet we don't abolish seatbelts, because in any case they prevent a lot more deaths than these "breakthrough" ones.

For the vaccine, it's the same principle.

TheWhippersnapper

@Elessar Yeah well you aren't banned from being a part of society for not wearing one.. you are responsible for whether you wear a seatbelt or not if you get injured.

Elessar · 26-30, M

@TheWhippersnapper You get stopped and fined. Similarly with the Austrian lockdown, it's not that they place two police officers in front of your door, if you get caught outside you're stopped and fined.