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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helenS · 36-40, F

Responses in this thread are becoming increasingly aggressive and insulting, unfortunately.
Very sad that so many cannot discuss a topic in a polite and courteous way. 😕

latinbutterfly · F

@helenS It's been nearly two years since the The Virus began, and we still can't agree on how to fight it. No wonder we have barely made progress.

bijouxbroussard · F

@helenS I’m trying not to be insulting about this, because I understand that on both sides it’s about [b]fear[/b].

helenS · 36-40, F

@latinbutterfly Covid has been the subject of political passions from the beginning. A rational debate has become almost impossible.

helenS · 36-40, F

@bijouxbroussard I certainly did not think of [u]you[/u] when I wrote my response. 🌷

bijouxbroussard · F

@helenS I didn’t feel accused. But you’re not wrong, unfortunately. People have gotten into arguments and blocked each other online, gotten into actual fistfights in rl about dealing with this pandemic.

anythingoes477 · M

@bijouxbroussard Fear of COVID no....fear of unvaccinated fools who are the breeding grounds for yet more variants that could take all of us.... vaccinated and unvaccinated alike.... back to where we were a year ago....yes.

helenS · 36-40, F

@bijouxbroussard [quote] I understand that on both sides it’s about fear.[/quote]
There is rational fear, such as fear of becoming infected and very ill, and irrational fear, such as fear of Microsoft founder Bill Gates implanting microscopic mind control chips in vaccines.
It's not just "fear here, fear there".

anythingoes477 · M

@helenS In retrospect whomever it was that put the micro mind control chips and the whatever it is that makes men's balls swell up in with horse dewormer....was genius. Three conspiracy theories...in one dose. ;-)

bijouxbroussard · F

@anythingoes477 Well, some are afraid of becoming sick and dying from this virus, or seeing it happen to loved ones. Other are more afraid of what [b]they[/b] perceive as the loss of personal freedoms.

@helenS Rational or not, some people are afraid of those things, making it real to them. So the animosity is fear-based.

helenS · 36-40, F

@bijouxbroussard Bijoux: fear alone does [u]never[/u] justify anything. Anti-semitism may be based on fear, for example. That does not justify any anti-semitic actions.
Our actions should never be based on individual tastes, and in this context "fear" is just a part of people's tastes. I fear this and you fear that.

bijouxbroussard · F

@helenS Preaching to the choir. Fear of black people doesn’t justify the killing of unarmed people by police and civilians alike, anymore than it did the decades of lynchings. But it’s often prompted such actions, and still does, unfortunately.