French Gov’t Draws Bill to Ban the Unvaccinated From Public Transport, as 55% Say They Won’t Get a Shot
There'll be a lot of empty buses
People who fail to get a Covid-19 vaccination could be banned from using public transport in France, according to a draft law sparking angry protests from opposition politicians on Tuesday.
Prime Minister Jean Castex on Monday got his cabinet’s backing for a bill that is designed to provide a legal framework for dealing with health crises, including the coronavirus pandemic.
According to the text, which will now be submitted to parliament, a negative Covid test or proof of a “preventative treatment, including the administration of a vaccine” could be required for people to be granted “access to transport or to some locations, as well as certain activities”.
According to opinion polls, 55 percent of French people say they will not get a Covid shot, one of the highest rates in the European Union.
The government’s vaccination campaign is to start on Sunday.
President Emmanuel Macron has promised that coronavirus vaccinations, though strongly recommended, will not be mandatory.
But opposition politicians condemned the draft law, with Marine Le Pen, leader of the far-right RN party, calling it an “essentially totalitarian” measure.
“In a backhanded way, this bill does not aim to make vaccinations mandatory, but will prevent anybody who doesn’t comply from having a social life,” she said.
RN party spokesman Sebastien Chenu said Macron’s government was planning “a health dictatorship”.
Guillaume Peltier, deputy leader of the centre-right LR party, said it was “inconceivable” that the government should be allowed to “get all the power to suspend our freedoms without parliamentary control.”
Centrist senator Nathalie Goulet said the draft was “an attack on public freedoms”, while the far-left deputy Alexis Corbiere said “we could at least have a collective discussion if the idea is to limit our public liberties.”
In response, public sector minister Amelie de Montchalin said the bill was “not at all made to create exceptional powers for the government” or “create a health state.”
She said there would be a debate about the bill during which “everything that needs clarification will be clarified.”
The EU gave the green light for a Pfizer-BioNTech coronavirus vaccine on Monday, paving the way for the first inoculations to start across 27 countries just after Christmas.
Source: AFP
Good to see the French government are listening to the people as usual.
That’s why democracy is such a wonderful thing.
Heard the they are sterilising the blades of the Guillotines in storage ??
You wouldn’t want Ma Crotte & Co getting COVIDIOCY ?? Wouldn’t you ?
Napoleon is turning in his grave!
You can’t ride the bus, if you’re dead.
Why would anyone with a brain get a vaccine once they understand why the majority don’t want one?
The majority don’t want one because they are misinformed. The average child in the US gets vaccines for 14 diseases before they are 6 years old. Is no one aware of this and the benefits they have provided?
The COVID vaccine is unlike any previous vaccine. Human beings have never been given mRNA “vaccines” before. In what way are the autoimmune diseases caused by both kinds of vaccines, benefits? Traditional vaccines have always contained attenuated or “dead” viruses. The mRNA “vaccines” contain no viruses, just snippets of RNA, as the PCR test is designed to detect.
Good for the French government. The US should do that, too, banning unvaccinated people from planes, pools, government buildings and so on. Korea, China, etc. have implemented a very successful system using QR codes on phones to implement this, where one’s virus status is checked on an app on one’s phone before getting the green light to enter many places. Very sensible. Xi Jinping is pushing for a global QR code system be set up for tracking global health.
They should get a test that is designed to diagnose an infection with COVID instead of one that is designed to replicate its RNA like the PCR does.