Lithuania vaccinated ~75% of its adults and instituted a very strict vaccine pass program…
You’ll never BELIEVE what happened next. (Or maybe you will.)
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For months, Lithuania - once the home of peaceful and surprisingly effective resistance to Soviet tyranny - has engaged in increasingly strict medical fascism.
Adults who refuse the Covid vaccine are essentially barred from work, shopping, and public life. Even food shopping and visits to doctors are difficult. Violators face hefty fines.
A Lithuanian who goes by “gluboco” has cataloged the restrictions:
And the restrictions have worked - to raise vaccination levels, that is. About three in four Lithuanian adults are fully vaccinated, more than the United States and well ahead of most other Eastern European countries.
Now Lithuania is seeing the rewards!
Covid cases and deaths have fallen basically to zero.
Wow! Just 25 cases in a day? Fantastic news!
Wait…
I think I cut the chart too soon.
Hate it when that happens.
Here’s the right one.
Oh. 3,000 new cases as of yesterday? 100 times the level in July? The equivalent of more than 350,000 in the United States?
This can mean only one thing, citizens of Lithuania:
You have abused your freedom. Obviously it’s time to tighten the restrictions!
The same nonsense is happening here in Belgium. For months they bragged about having the highest vaccination rate in the EU with 86% of the adult pop fully backed (not sure if they still hold that title). This is straight from the Brussels Times btw. This week they announced cases had jumped by 50%, surpassing the highest daily infection rate of the second wave. My guess is that it will overshadow the height of the first wave too as this ramps up. What’s even more interesting, is that Belgium is basically split into 3 provinces - Flanders, Wallonia and Brussels. For months they lamented the low vax uptake in Brussels (currently around ~60%, hovered closer to 50% before the Covid pass) while boasting the high vax rate in Flanders (80% vaxxed) and then actually ran an article this week on how the cases in Flanders doubled in the last two weeks. So.... the province with the highest vax uptake is also having the biggest spike in cases. I’m like... can’t they see the writing on the wall here?!? Wtf
A friend is in New Orleans right now. Vaccine passports to get into restaurants, not just bars. One place that doesn't require vaccine passports -- The National WWII Museum. Hmmm. Maybe they know "showing your papers" doesn't end well.