Greece - fines the Unvaxxed

[Pauls' Revere]

https://www.bloombergquint.com/polit...people-over-60

(Bloomberg) -- Greek Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis announced mandatory Covid-19 vaccination for all Greeks above 60 years of age before a cabinet meeting in Athens on Tuesday, in an effort to tackle the new omicron variation threat ahead of the festive season. Those who refuse to get vaccinated will have to pay a monthly fine of 100 euros ($114) for each month they don’t get jabbed, starting on Jan. 16, according to Mitsotakis. The funds collected by the fines will be given to Greek hospitals fighting the pandemic. “It is not a punishment,” Mitsotakis said. “I would say it is a health fee.” In Greece, only 60,000 among the 580,000 unvaccinated people over 60 years old received the vaccine in November.

[Anti Globalist]

There needs to be a leader somewhere that fines people who got vaccinated.

[acptulsa]

If you won't let us euthanize you when you retire, at least let us steal your government pension.

[Occam's Banana]

If you won't let us euthanize you when you retire, at least let us steal your government pension.

And if you will let us euthanize you ...

https://twitter.com/Not_the_Bee/stat...62079536414722

[Brian4Liberty]

Big pharma rules the world.

[69360]

Yeah it probably sounds good on paper for them. How in the world are they going to track all these people and collect fines monthly? I would bet that if you just kept your mouth shut about the vax nobody would bother you for not getting the shots.

[Invisible Man]

Big pharma rules the world.

Yep.

If this were really about health, they'd do it for diet and exercise, which matter more for a person's health than the vaccine does even taking the optimistic view of it that these governments have.

[luctor-et-emergo]

My government uses the equivalent of the general welfare clause in order to justify all the measures. In our constitution it says the government has to promote the general health of the people. They then claim this is in conflict with other 'rights' people have in the constitution and say that at this special time this right trumps the other right... I do not understand how people can look at things this way but that's hard to change, welcome to Europe. I think the US is one of the only places where the constitution to some degree is read to the letter and taken seriously, most other places it's the equivalent of toilet paper.