The overreaction to the pandemic and defective public health policies that have resulted are worldwide. We see misguided and destructive policies everywhere most known in the US, China, Hong Kong, Australia, Austria, Germany and France. China has engaged on a zero tolerance approach. When a case emerges in China, they will lock down an entire city and engage in massive and intrusive track and trace protocols.
Recently, 10,000’s of citizens of Xian were forcibly relocated to quarantine camps outside city limits merely for living in the same building or the same part of town as an identified COVID sufferer.
Of course, a Zero Covid policy is guaranteed to fail, which means China is destroying its own economy for no good reason. Australia has practically been under a state of siege in Melbourne and Sydney with residents arrested just for going outdoors. Austria has segregated the unvaccinated and banned them from public life. Now, this insane public policy has reached France. French President Emmanuel Macron has vowed to attack the unvaccinated and annoy them until they submit to his vaccine mandate. Macron claims that the unvaccinated are the enemies of democracy and are engaged in lies and stupidity for refusing vaccination.
But vaccines do not prevent infection and they do not stop those infected from spreading the virus. Vaccines do nothing to stop the spread of the omicron variant or other variants of the SARS-CoV-2 virus. Over 80% of new infections of COVID are among the vaccinated (and boosted) according to reliable studies from Israel, South Africa, the U.S. and other countries.
To deprive citizens of civil rights for not taking a vaccine that doesn’t work is the greatest civil rights violation of all. In the long run, history will set the record straight.
But finally, people like Macron will be recognised as the genuine fools they really are.
Sven Franssen