Italy's northern regions mull Austria-style apartheid lockdown for unvaccinated

Eleonora Vasques
EURACTIV
Wed, 17 Nov 2021 12:00 UTC

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In Italy, 76.75% of the population has completed the primary vaccination cycle. 2.35% are waiting for the second dose, while 5.26% received the third one.

Italy's northern regions of Liguria, Trentino Alto Adige, Friuli Venezia Giulia, and the southern region of Calabria are calling on the government to enforce a lockdown for unvaccinated people. This follows the lead of Austria, which ordered lockdowns for unvaccinated citizens from Monday (15 November).

Comment: A detail seemingly deliberately omitted in the dystopian messaging is that, at least in Austria and Germany, those who can prove that they've recovered from Covid are considered to fit under the 'vaccinated' category.

Other northern regions like Emilia-Romagna and Lombardy have expressed doubts about such a measure, while the region of Veneto has vehemently opposed it.

"We will ask the government that tighter measures, linked to the colour bands, apply to people who have not taken the vaccine, not to people who have done so," said Giovanni Toti, the governor of Liguria's region. The latter refers to the Italian colour bands system, where regions with specific colours (white, yellow, orange, and red) have certain restrictions linked. Veneto's governor Luca Zaia is against such a measure as, according to him, it would be against the Italian Constitution.

Comment: In most countries the unprecedented restrictions were rushed through and enforced using 'emergency' legislation, precisely because it enables the establishment to suspend the normal rights of citizens, and, thus far, legal challenges that won, proving lockdowns do violate a country's constitution, have not been upheld.

In Italy, 76.75% of the population has completed the primary vaccination cycle. 2.35% are waiting for the second dose, while 5.26% received the third one. Overall, the national data on those who completed the vaccination cycle varies between 69% in Calabria and 79.6% in Tuscany.

Currently, only clinically vulnerable people, healthcare personnel, guests and staff of nursing homes, those who received the Johnson & Johnson vaccine, and those over 60 can receive the third dose. From 1 December, Italian citizens in the 40-60 age group will be included in the third dose vaccination campaign.

Comment: Since the beginning of the manufactured crisis it has become clear that countries across the planet have been acting in lockstep, as if implementing some supranational agenda. We're seeing this pattern again with the novel apartheid lockdown restrictions, with Germany and Italy following just a few days after Austria, and there are rumours that England is mulling similar restrictions. It's likely that much of Europe won't be far behind, despite 'cases', vaccination rates, and the overall situations being rather different:

• Latvia BANS unvaccinated MPs from voting and suspends pay, proof of recovery from Covid also accepted
• France's 65 years and older now need THIRD booster of Covid vaccine to be eligible for health pass - Macron

One would think if lockdowns were so effective that governments would be eager to release the data showing how effective the previous ones were, and yet they're actually going to extreme lengths to stop this information being released:

• UK govt ordered to release Covid lockdown impact assessment after it refused FOIA claiming it was 'not in the public interest'
• 10,000+ EXCESS deaths in just 4 months in England, NOT Covid related, lockdown backlog partly to blame

Also check out SOTT radio's: NewsReal: Covid Cases Among the Vaxxed Explode... So Govts Lockdown the Unvaxxed!