Austria imposed a controversial lockdown on roughly 2 million unvaccinated people Monday (Nov. 15), with federal police now randomly stopping people in public places to check their COVID-19 vaccination status.
Interior Minister Karl Nehammer said Tuesday that on Monday alone, at least 15,000 random police checks were carried out across Austria and roughly “120 violations were found and punished.”
Unvaccinated Austrians over the age of 12 who breach the lockdown face fines of up to 500 euros ($567), and anyone who refuses to comply with the random police checks may be fined triple that.
Austria’s third-biggest political party, the Freedom Party, called the lockdown of unvaccinated people “a corona apartheid system” and is hosting a protest in Vienna on Saturday (Nov. 20), where children older than six now must show a negative SARS-CoV-2 test result to be permitted entry into many public places.
Austrian lockdown of the unvaccinated has police on the streets checking peoples papers. History is repeating. Wake the f..k up people.
— Nicola (@nicolawitch) November 15, 2021
“Every citizen, every person living in Austria must be aware that they can be checked by the police at any time. We will check if they have been vaccinated and the reason for entering public spaces.” – Austrian Interior Minister – Karl Nehammer #Austria. pic.twitter.com/9NTmNpMX97
— 'Sikh For Truth'. (@SikhForTruth) November 15, 2021

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Holocaust Survivor Says NAZlS Demonized Jews As 'Spreaders of Disease'
"Fear of infectious epidemics was exactly what the NAZlS used to demonize Jews as spreaders of disease. Today the UN//CClN/TED are being accused of spreaders of disease." pic.twitter.com/dFX8PRnPZI
Don't worry, according to @philipoltermann and the GloboCap propagandists at the @guardian, it's just "routine checks," not like a totalitarian police state where goon squads roam the streets checking your ideological compliance "papers" or anything. https://t.co/g0MAaoqvsM
— Consent Factory (@consent_factory) November 15, 2021
Across the world a new crackdown is gaining pace. It's not about mask wearing or universal restrictions. This is a crackdown on the rights and freedoms of what, in the developed world at least, is a minority – the unvaccinated.
— Telegraph Global Health Security (@TelGlobalHealth) November 16, 2021
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