The Linz City Councilor for Health has outed Thomas Szekeres, President of the Austrian Medical Association, as an uninformed pharma shill. He accused the latter of further dividing society with his nonsensical statements and shameless political posturing. And Szekeres is not the only one who ignores the facts about vaccination – published figures show a different picture of the shots.
Szekeres recently called for tax relief for vaccinated people, but this has reportedly caused absolute incomprehension also among those in the medical profession. The Linz City Councilor for Health, Dr. Michael Raml, riled against the cheap populism contained in the statements of Austria’s chief medical officer. Because of such statements, the division in society has only widened.
“If a Vienna General Hospital professor at a time when 11 percent of Corona intensive care patients were double vaccinated, claims that only unvaccinated people need to be treated in the intensive care unit, he is apparently clueless as to the situation. He frightens the population and prevents the creation of a certain confidence,” said health councelor Raml.
Since the beginning of the pandemic, relying on evidence for any measures taken, he has spared the Linzers from the obligation of wearing a mask outdoors, unlike in Vienna. Likewise, in contrast to other politicians, Raml spoke out against compulsory vaccination from the start. He is against compulsory Corona vaccination for certain professional groups as well as against a general vaccination requirement.
Even the mainstream in Austria is starting to release numbers
There are now Corona-related numbers to be found even in the mainstream media. For example, at the beginning of October, 17 percent of fully jabbed intensive care patients and around 31 percent of fully jabbed patients were in the normal wards in the hospitals in Austria. The rest are considered “unvaccinated” because many had only received the first jab.
In Germany, people are not statistically recorded as “fully vaccinated” until 14 days after the second vaccination. In this way, the numbers are of course skewed. Especially since there is hardly any country in the world that really distinguishes between unvaccinated, partially vaccinated and fully vaccinated people and thus traceable data is not provided.
Does the vaccination work well in Austria?
Instead of finally communicating transparently and disclosing all the data, it is pointed out again and again that the vaccination is effective and safe. However, some recent events have been cause for alarm. The city of Waterford in the south-east of Ireland has the highest vaccination rate in the entire country with 99,7 percent of all people over the age of 18. However, it also has the highest 14-day incidence in Ireland of Covid-19 at 1 486 cases per 100 000 residents.