Queuing for Vaccination
At Reumannplatz in the pedestrian zone of Favoriten, Vienna's 10th district
The lockdown for unvaccinated people is having an effect, but it came far too late. The seven-day incidence in Austria as a whole is currently 971.5 due to the population's lack of willingness to be vaccinated. However, the differences between the individual federal states are enormous, depending on who is in power there.
In Upper Austria, a coalition of the conservative Kurz-ÖVP and the right-wing anti-vaccination party FPÖ governs. The incidence there is 1,557.5. The ÖVP governor of Salzburg recently distinguished himself by making fun of virologists. In this idiot's state, the incidence is now 1,672.5, and the hospitals are sounding the alarm about overloading their intensive care units.
In Vienna, which is also a federal state, the incidence is 524.3, which is still very high, but the lowest incidence figure of all the federal states. Vienna is governed by a social democratic-led coalition between the SPÖ and the liberal NEOS party. Coronavirus measures are always a bit stricter here than in the rest of Austria and the testing and vaccination infrastructure is much better.
The main problem, however, is the federal government, a coalition of the ÖVP and the Greens. This coalition is like a marriage that continues solely because of the children. It is only continued because of the coronavirus crisis. However, the work of this government suffers enormously from this state of affairs.
By the way, I admire the Green Health Minister Mückstein for his equanimity. When the ÖVP Tourism Minister Elisabeth Köstinger made an impertinent reply to one of his proposals, I couldn't possibly have refrained from telling her to shut her stupid mouth.
Queuing for Vaccination
At Reumannplatz in the pedestrian zone of Favoriten, Vienna's 10th district
The lockdown for unvaccinated people is having an effect, but it came far too late. The seven-day incidence in Austria as a whole is currently 971.5 due to the population's lack of willingness to be vaccinated. However, the differences between the individual federal states are enormous, depending on who is in power there.
In Upper Austria, a coalition of the conservative Kurz-ÖVP and the right-wing anti-vaccination party FPÖ governs. The incidence there is 1,557.5. The ÖVP governor of Salzburg recently distinguished himself by making fun of virologists. In this idiot's state, the incidence is now 1,672.5, and the hospitals are sounding the alarm about overloading their intensive care units.
In Vienna, which is also a federal state, the incidence is 524.3, which is still very high, but the lowest incidence figure of all the federal states. Vienna is governed by a social democratic-led coalition between the SPÖ and the liberal NEOS party. Coronavirus measures are always a bit stricter here than in the rest of Austria and the testing and vaccination infrastructure is much better.
The main problem, however, is the federal government, a coalition of the ÖVP and the Greens. This coalition is like a marriage that continues solely because of the children. It is only continued because of the coronavirus crisis. However, the work of this government suffers enormously from this state of affairs.
By the way, I admire the Green Health Minister Mückstein for his equanimity. When the ÖVP Tourism Minister Elisabeth Köstinger made an impertinent reply to one of his proposals, I couldn't possibly have refrained from telling her to shut her stupid mouth.