Christian Rainer: Austria staggers | profil.at
Meanwhile in Austria. Here the stupidest politician words have been spoken for a long time. Health Minister Johannes Rauch justified the abolition of compulsory vaccination as follows: “Compulsory vaccination does not get anyone to vaccinate.” You can see that from the few people who are currently being vaccinated. This has also been proven by “studies”. ÖVP club chairman August Wöginger notches right next to it: “We didn’t get anyone to vaccinate.” The gentlemen explain to us here that a vaccination requirement that never applied never had an effect. No cause has no effect. This untruth is not acceptable to man. We are processed and lied to. The truth has been destroyed: the government is burying the compulsory vaccination card because elections are imminent and the MFG is being deprived of its livelihood and the FPÖ is being deprived of fuel.
What’s happening? Nothing comes, because there is no planning. Members of the Vaccination Commission lead the media from all of this. “Living with Covid,” says Johannes Rauch. Why doesn’t he say “dying with covid”?
Back to Germany again: On Thursday, the neighbors called the second alarm level in the “gas emergency plan”. At the beginning of the war, Germany received 55 percent of its natural gas from Russia; according to the German media, it was 35 percent at the time of going to press on Friday. Austria gets 80 percent of its gas from Russia, but I wasn’t able to find out how much it was at the time of going to press in three phone calls to ministries on Friday. In Austria, the empty “early warning level” continues to apply. Austria has no concept for the crisis. Industrial companies receive no information about emergency rationing. Nobody asked people: “Please save energy!” Minister Leonore Gewessler says: “The situation is being closely monitored and reassessed every hour.” Economics Minister Martin Kocher says: “There is no reason to panic.” Germany: 55/35 percent dependency from Russia. Austria: 80 percent. You find the mistake!
Polls: ÖVP and Greens together reach about 35 percent. We don’t remember a day in the Second Republic when a government could only have a third of the population behind it. It won’t get any better: we have four state elections ahead of us. The People’s Party has to replace three governors, two of them surprisingly, maybe one temporarily. The Social Democracy only collects fallen fruit. So far, the economic crisis has only reached the people as soft as silk: petrol, groceries. Politics matter: Valium speeches, gifts of money. Nobody up there talks about what’s coming: doubling of electricity and heating costs; wage spiral; Unemployment; supply crisis; a bad recession for years.
The FPÖ is on par with the ÖVP. A few percentage points separate them from the SPÖ. If everything goes down the drain, the Liberals can overtake the Social Democrats. At the turn of the millennium, the political landscape looked similar. But then there was no war, no pandemic, no local and global economic crisis. The situation is really very dangerous.