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This makes Austria the only country in the EU with mandatory vaccination for all adults. But as far as I know even there the law has been suspended because COVID-19 is not considered dangerous enough to justify it anymore.
Ever since the war began, no one cares about covid anymore. “The current thing” is no longer covid.
I disagree that Scholz was defeated. It was his health minister Lauterbach who was defeated. Scholz was lukewarm about the vaccine mandate and never really put real effort behind it. This was Lauterbach’s battle and he lost it decisively.
Yeah, I guess it’s true that this is more a defeat of the health minister, some news outlets even started demanding a resignation. Nonetheless Scholz surely took quite a bit of political damage as well as on the one hand he backed the plan for mandatory vaccination but did not really use all his power to get it accepted, not even within his own coalition. At least to me this makes the coalition look weak and him indecisive.
