Moscow Overwhelmed by ‘Shameless Coercion’ Variant: Russia’s Capital Now a Forced-Vax Clown Show

A Covid vaccine for every Muscovite, but free choice while supplies last

Things are looking up in Moscow!

With Moscow’s hospitals facing unprecedented strain not seen since six months ago, Mayor Sergey Sobyanin has done away with antiquated notions of bodily autonomy and free commerce in order to save the city. Please clap.

Muscovites collectively breathed a sigh of relief when Sobyanin announced last month that due to rising Covid hospitalizations, millions of residents would no longer be trusted with making personal medical decisions for themselves. In sectors such as transport, hospitality and leisure, businesses would need to meet a 60% vaccination quota among employees or risk exorbitant fines.

A few days later, the mayor announced the creation of ‘Covid-free’ zones for double-dosed VIPs and Covid-conscious residents: Those who have been fully vaccinated, or have recovered from the virus over the past 6 months, or can produce a negative PCR test from the last 72 hours, can receive a QR code granting them exclusive access to indoor seating in bars and restaurants. Those without these health IDs — the lepers — are banished to outdoor seating areas. But the untouchables shouldn’t get too comfortable: The outdoor dining fig leaf expires next month. 

To the untrained eye, these policies appear potentially coercive — which might reflect poorly on Sobyanin, considering that, historically, extortionary tactics have received 1-star Yelp reviews in the marketplace of ideas.

“If he who employs coercion against me could mould me to his purposes by argument, no doubt he would,” observed the English philosopher William Godwin. “He pretends to punish me because his argument is strong; but he really punishes me because his argument is weak.”

Maybe that was true way back in the 1700s but human nature has changed a lot since then. Besides, Godwin never had to worry about hospital capacity. 

Voluntary vaccination: A simple matter of perspective

A small but noisy band of malcontents has accused Sobyanin of instituting a “compulsory” vaccination regime that somehow runs afoul of basic human rights. But what do the facts, and more importantly, Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov, say? Backing the mayor’s new approach to mass inoculation, Peskov insisted that “vaccination is voluntary because you can change your job.”

Peskov seems to have a precise and highly sophisticated understanding of what constitutes compulsory vaccination. Perhaps non-voluntary vaccination is when Peskov knocks on your door with a Kalashnikov and asks politely for you to roll up your sleeve? Perhaps. Whatever it is — it is not what is happening right now. Dangerous vaccine-hesitant types might say it’s reprehensible to suggest that Muscovites are exercising free power of choice when they are forced to choose between feeding themselves and maintaining control over what goes into their bodies. What’s so reprehensible about it? Peskov has shrewdly identified a loophole in order to shield Russian authorities from moral considerations — this is what he is paid to do, and he does it very well. With so many Russians now at risk of losing employment, it would be irresponsible at the macroeconomic level to spew groundless aspersions that might undermine the Kremlin spokesman’s own job security. 

The science can’t wait

Then there are the worrywarts with their so-called safety concerns. 

Russia’s Sputnik V vaccine, and nearly every other vaccine on the market, has shown God-like results in its first year of clinical tests. Under ordinary circumstances, only another nine to fourteen more years of trials would be needed to secure regulatory approval for these miracle drugs. According to protocols set out by the IFPMA, a leading global pharmaceutical lobby, phase I clinical trials alone typically require two years — longer than Covid-19 has even been around to vaccinate against. Phase III trials often last between 5-10 years. Of course, all of the above remains 100% true today. But the tin foil hatters who object to worldwide emergency vaccine rollouts on ‘safety’ grounds still risk getting checkmated by facts and logic: If these vaccines are so bad, why is literally everyone using them?

For the record: There’s only been one — only one! — global health boondoggle in the past decade in which countries around the world, including Russia, were persuaded to spend lots of money on potentially dangerous vaccines that they probably didn’t need. 

In 2009, the World Health Organization (WHO) declared a global pandemic following an outbreak of H1N1 ‘swine flu’, without disclosing that several officials involved in this momentous decision had financial ties to pharmaceutical companies that stood to make huge profits from state-sponsored mass vaccine rollouts. One of the vaccines rushed out during this period, Pandemrix, was later linked to suspicious cases of narcolepsy in children. Thankfully that particular big pharma blend was not deployed in Russia. Still, by early 2010, more than a million Muscovites had been vaccinated against swine flu, with media reports warning “refuseniks” that there could be severe consequences for not getting jabbed. Russian doctors also prescribed an anti-swine flu medication called Tamiflu, which was later found to be backed by bogus data.

In the United States, the H1N1 shot was made mandatory for New York healthcare workers. Around 90 million vaccines were administered across the country, but an almost equal number — 70 million — were tossed after demand for the drug dried up. The vaccination program set US taxpayers back by $1.6 billion. A similarly odious spending spree occurred in Russia. One lawmaker, a retired FSB colonel and member of the Duma’s anti-corruption commission, suggested that Russia had been duped into wasting vast sums at a time when public funds were far from limitless.

“Russia has spent over 4 billion rubles on the fight against the new virus. Taking into account the state of the country’s economy, these funds could be spent on solving other problems, the relevance of which there is no doubt,” the Duma deputy, Igor Barinov, said in November 2009. 

The only country that didn’t buy lots of experimental swine flu shots, Poland, insisted that the worldwide vaccination drive was “not honest and not safe.”

But all of this all happened way back in 2009. Global health authorities have changed a lot since then.

The Hermetic cult of hospital capacity

Over the past twelve months or so it suddenly became extremely fashionable for governments to subordinate large swathes of human activity, and of the human experience itself, to ‘hospital capacity’. In a blog post explaining his “difficult, but necessary and responsible decision” to take custodianship over what needs to go into the bodies of several million Muscovites, Sobyanin pointed to the rapidly deteriorating situation in the city’s hospitals. After all, the city was seeing close to 2,000 hospitalizations per day.

Basic tenets of medical privacy and free commerce needed to be fed through a woodchipper. Sobyanin’s deputy explained why: in 2-3 weeks there would be no beds left for Covid patients. “It’s simple math that puts us in a tight box,” she revealed on June 16. More than 12,000 beds were occupied at the time.

According to the most recent, publicly available information, Moscow currently has somewhere between 20-24 thousand hospital beds reserved for Covid patients. On June 29, occupancy “approached” 15,000 beds, and this number has remained relatively constant since then. In other words: there are at least 20,000 Covid beds with 15,000 of them currently in use — providing a reserve of over 5,000 beds. Occupancy seems to have peaked by the end of June, but the total number of beds mustered to meet the surge did not come close to the 30,000 beds that had been made available for Covid patients more than a year earlier, in March-May 2020.

Last year, on December 24, the mayor had reported that the city was recording “about 2,000 hospitalizations per day.” Despite the increase in hospitalizations, Sobyanin said there were 5,000 hospital beds in reserve. He explained this was an adequate buffer and that the medical system would be able to “work calmly”. “So far, the city’s health care system is doing well,” read a statement issued by the mayor’s office about the surge in hospitalizations. A week prior, on December 16, there had been about 12,000 Muscovites hospitalized with the virus. 

So with a 5,000-bed reserve that was declared sufficient six months earlier, a daily hospitalization influx previously deemed manageable, and Moscow having been able to produce as many as 30,000 Covid-dedicated beds more than a year ago, can the current situation truly be considered unprecedented? The answer to this question is obviously yes.

All of the above data was mined from press releases and statements made to the media — because you cannot find an official, up-to-date hospital bed tally on Russia’s official Covid dashboard, nor on any other government-run website. 

It’s true that millions of people are being asked to make personal sacrifices to protect hospital resources. But do they really deserve access to regularly updated figures showing how many beds have been reserved for Covid patients, and what percentage of them are currently occupied? Should Muscovites be entitled to all relevant information on this subject, so that they can examine this apparently life-altering data at any time of their choosing? That seems like an excessive and arbitrary request unless you are seriously suggesting health authorities and politicians are somehow not infallible

Indeed, Muscovites can rest easy knowing that policies dictating the most serious matters of life are not in any way reliant upon mystical-like devotion to closely-guarded statistics.

Slightly off-topic, but we once met a man on a train to St. Petersburg who belonged to a heretical sect of the Rosicrucian Order that believed the universe revolves around the number of available bananas in Bangkok, Thailand. He patiently explained to us that everything he did was directed towards ensuring there was an adequate supply of elongated, yellow fruit in the city. But when we pressed our acquaintance to disclose how many Bangkok bananas were uneaten at the present moment, he admitted that he did not know the number — only the Thai Grocers Association had this information, and it was only dispensed periodically in small, hard-to-contextualize morsels. We later learned he was a lunatic who had escaped from a nearby psychiatric ward. 

QR codes: They just make sense

By mid-June, Moscow was seeing for the first time levels of Covid hospitalizations that had not been seen since late December. Just as everything seemed hopeless, Sobyanin swooped in with a solution that was “complex, unpopular, but necessary to keep people alive”: the unvaccinated “accomplices of the epidemiological process,” as he referred to them, would henceforth be barred from dining-in unless they could cough up a PCR or antibodies test. 

These walking biohazards could still go ride the standing-room-only suburban trains and pack into metro cattle cars by their millions. But sitting down for a meal would be a big no-no. This is the premise currently guiding the rollout of these city-saving health passes.

No price is too high for public health

It’s undeniable that Moscow is marching towards a bright and very healthy future. But one lingering question remains: Are we certain that enough resources and civilization-bending measures are being deployed in order to guarantee that every Russian is vaccinated? After all, you cannot put a ruble-denominated price on public health.

Unfortunately, we continue to see anti-vaccine sedition posing as alleged concern for “other” public health issues that purportedly exist in Russia. For example, some might cynically propagate the fantasy that money going towards vaccines could be better spent on upgrading the healthcare system’s infrastructure. A Russian government audit published last year found that a surprising number of medical facilities across the country were without running water or central heating. These findings remained virtually unchanged from a previous audit conducted in 2016-17.

With compulsory vaccine regimes now instituted in regions across the country, it’s possible that some Russians who are being instructed to get vaccinated in order to safeguard the healthcare system live in areas where the local clinic has no running water. This is a real nuisance because now anti-vax radicals might argue that probably a health clinic should have 20th-century infrastructure before people should be expected to take an experimental medication in order to protect it. 

Then again, maybe they have a point.

Riley Waggaman is Anti-Empire’s Moscow Correspondent

22 Comments
  1. river view says

    Apparently Putin is just a figure head like Trump. Co vid rules ALL!

    1. Jerry Hood says

      Look,he is 33rd degree mason in the Eastern Red Lodge, with assigned role at the current END OF ANNO MAGNUS IN2032, AND NOVUS ORDO SECLORUM IN 2033!
      Putin’s Russia is ST.GDORGE- THE DRAGON(= USrael= USAtan) SLAYER, see it at the centre of thdir DUAL= 2 HEADED EAGLE!!! 2nd Coming is from the East, the place of Tesurrection and new Sunrise! That’s why is now Russia heavily Christian country, where all Cemeteries gace East,place of Resurrection! The Blue West is in SATAN’S POSSESSION, and SHALL BE SLAIN IN ONE HOUR!!! But there will be only over 7 billion dead, no one to enjoy that ” Victory”!!!
      END TIME IS HERE, AND 99% OF YOU ARE IGNORING IT!!! Get the big guns, food and water supplies! In 2023 shall arrive STARVATION the 3rd horse of the jew= freemasonic carried out APOCALYPSE!!! After that, 2025, hungry crowds will unleash the DEPULATION WW3= ARMAGEDDON WAR!!!!
      There are thousands of dates encoded! See Mt.Athos, on Trident= Aquarian Age peninsula, 2033 ‘ meters’ high….It is the year for jew Novus Ordo Seclorum! See the US Skyscrapers calendar in Nat.Geo.Magazine,Feb.1989! See the masonic US 1$ Bill, yhe US Great Seal, the US galactic flag and oficial, jew released 911 Database! Who has some brains, easily finds there 11x times 2032& 2033!!!!

      1. Jerry Hood says

        East is always Red and West Blue, so are thdir yiddish tinted Lodges! What’s the difference between Blue Demon-rats and Red RePublicans??? So the Labor Party and Torry, and so on!!! You focus on shit, study shit, and miss these big points in life!!!!

        1. Jerry Hood says

          Pakal’s Resurrection TOMB was red(!) In Palenque in his pyramid, on the EASTERN SIDE! So are the other Rebirth chambers!!! West is associated with DEATH!!!!!!

      2. XSFRGR says

        I am a 32 degree Mason, and a Knight of the Temple. You aren’t a Mason, and you have no idea of what Masonry is about or the present dismal condition of Freemasonry. Don’t let Freemasonry, and fantasy distract you from the true enemy: THE JEW, AND THE MASTER OF THE JEWS…SATAN. Otherwise, good post.

        Get ready; it’s coming, and coming fast. Revelation 18 will be the event that takes out the U$ while Russia shall become the light of the world. Christ, like the sun, shall rise in the East.

    2. Mr Reynard says

      Hmm.. I’m afraid that you could be right ?
      This below , had me thinking hard about V Putin role ..
      https://external-content.duckduckgo.com/iu/?u=http%3A%2F%2Fredefininggod.com%2Fwp-content%2Fuploads%2F2016%2F01%2F1putlazar.png&f=1&nofb=1

  2. tunamelt says

    If the so called vax works, why care if others are vaxed or not? Of course that is not the point from the ruler perspective, its all about dominating others and the elimination of individual choice. Sadly, communism- the covid variety returns to Russia to plague its heroic people once again.

  3. Jelly mould says

    ”Iran among the few countries producing own vaccine”

    
    https://www.presstv.ir/Detail/2021/07/08/661818/COVID19-vaccine-domestic-COVIran-Barekat

    The absurdity of an Iranian ‘vaccine’, an explanation:

    The Covid operation is best characterised as a franchise, it is rolled out with many benefits for the budding tyrant who buys into it, including total surveillance & obedience of their own population, in response to an expertly executed global narrative of fear.

    For most western countries the franchise fee is paid to the US directly, whose CIA/NSA direct the COVID operation, by surrendering their peoples privacy, by giving the CIA/NSA a seat at every business & government meeting during the fabricated ‘crisis’, by surrendering their retail sectors to Amazon, & by allowing dollar rich US corporations buy up property, strategic industries and small businesses, during the massive fire-sale which is following on from the highly destructive, self inflicted, COVID measures.

    The Russians, the Chinese & the Iranian, as excluded states, get the Covid franchise for FREE. They get all the franchise marketing, branding, and ‘science’ based fear mongering, and the tech tyranny template for nothing, without having to pay the crippling franchise fee to the USA and their agencies.

    For Russia & Iran it is a win win. They even got to create their own fake vaccine, for the fake virus, with the west unable to challenge its effectiveness, knowing they risk exposing their own fraud if they did.

  4. Jelly mould says

    The tracking app, is the aim, not the ‘vaccine’.

  5. Jodi1 says

    I understand that Sputnik V vaccine is one of the best out there. It has great efficacy rate and has no MRNA in its makeup. The other vaccines scare me – Pfizer, Moderna, Astra-Zeneca, Johnson & Johnson all sound like horror stories. Sputnik V is an adenovirus and sounds much safer to me. We can’t get access to this vaccine in the country I live in.

    1. Helga Weber says

      I would trust the russian Vakzin more then the american,

      1. ken says

        IMO the point is no one should be forced inoculated regardless of safety.

        In this case tens of thousands have died so far for a flu that has a 99.9% survival rate. That is murder….

    2. Raptar Driver says

      All vaccines are snake oil.
      It’s just some of it will kill you quicker.

  6. GMC says

    My website preference always read Checkpoint Asia , but now I just realized I really am at – Anti Empire — and it doesn’t matter – which Empire that this Website is writing about . So, yes the wife and friends are pushing me to get the jab { Sputnik Vee} but they just don’t understand that I see that my immune system kicked in against the Corona I had in December — in around February or March. So,why would I want to take the jab at this time. I’m Alaskan for 35 yrs. and we were taught the hard way – Think for your F..kin self.
    How about Russia go after those that are unleashing this second virus on it’s people , instead of Hounding me to take a vax right now ! How about taking out those UKrainian USA labs that are across the border fom – Crimea ? And don’t forget the Lugar Lab right next to the Tbilisi, Georgia { sp} Airport – if you don’t know where it is – by now ! The only W.H.O I know – was a rock band in the 60s – the other one is a murderer.

    1. Helga Weber says

      According to many experts, it you had Covid, you have immunity for the rest of you life.
      But if I had to get the vakzin, I would go for Sputnik

      1. GMC says

        Yes, thanks H W. I was ranting – but maybe Russia is working the scam instead of fighting it – they are using it = Judo ? I have no problem with the Sputnik but want to start with Sputnik light – first. Thanks.

  7. Jerry Hood says

    Sputnik V is real vaccine,boosting immune system, bur Astra-Zeneca,Pfizer,Moderna, Johnson& Johnson are slow or fast EUTANASIA ” VAXXES” issued by Khazarian Mengeles and Kevorkians!!! And that’ s big difference!!!!

    1. ken says

      No matter how good it is,,, if they get away with forcing the inoculation on the public they’ll be free to do anything they want to you. Do we really want that?

    2. Robert I Bruce says

      The J and J is the same type of vaccine as Sputnik V. Both are not a mRNA “vaccine”.

  8. Helga Weber says
  9. ken says

    Can’t tell which side of the debate this article is.

    Now the hospitals are filling up. We’re now back to that! When they said that a year ago investigating citizens went around and found them empty. Oh but it’s so easy to fake the numbers.

    So Next comes the incinerators are burning 24 and7? Pictures of black smoke billowing up. People dropping dead in Wuhan again?

    Take a PCR test and your good to go for 72 hours. That tool was not designed to be a test. It’s inventor flatly said it could not determine a infection of anything. But they continue using it.
    Like Mr. Mullis said,,, give it enough cycles it could find anything. It can only tell you what genome is there. It cannot detect any live virus. It can be easily manipulated which is why the medical nazis are using it.

    Wasn’t it convenient that Mr. Mullis died about 4-5 months before all this crap. I can guarantee you he was taken out because none of this would have happened. He said Fauci was an idiot and I agree with him,,, he’s a dangerous idiot.

    A scientist that couldn’t be bought. Strange today, no?

    The virus is fake,,, never been isolated to a single virus,,, its gnome made up by a computer so it’s easy to tell the PCR what to look for. Since the original covid is a farce it goes without saying there cannot be any variants.

    The kill shots have killed over 18,000 in the EU,,, over 8,000 in the US and that’s only what’s reported. Does that sound safe to you. Does anyone even give a shit! Don’t know about Russia,,, Commies and Nazis were always better at lying and hiding crap.

    They say the Covid shot cannot prevent infection or the spread,,, and now are suggesting boosters,,, so would someone tell me why they are screaming for everyone to get it!

    They say the covid vaxxines do not work on the variants…. again,,,would someone tell me why they are screaming for everyone to get it!

    Does that sound effective to you!

    The article explains a little of what used to be required to get a vaxx on the market. Doesn’t mention all the dead animals that died in experiments in previous mRNA vaxx attempts. They all died. This alone should tell you their agenda!

    Yeah, It’s a shame Putin has joined the Kill Gates Genocide gang with Demented Biden,,, Bozo the UK Clown,,, Macron the wannabe Napoleon, Merkel a wannabe Hitler, and those moronic nazis down under. He was the last hope humanity had of a decent leader.

  10. Dale says

    Joke of the day: prophylactic chemotherapy injections, with nasty adverse effects profile, for non-existent virus.

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