Republican governors in the United States may be championing the cause of the vaccine resistant and suing to stop mandates imposed by the Biden administration. But elsewhere in the West, the jab-less are increasingly becoming personae non gratae.
In Florida, for instance, Gov. Ron DeSantis, R, signed a law that barred companies and schools from insisting all their employees be vaccinated. Within the week, Disney halted its vaccine requirement for Walt Disney World workers. Macron's explosive remarks - made ahead of an expected reelection bid in April - assumed a certain calculus: That a national tipping point had been reached against the perceived selfishness of the unvaccinated.After critics derided the crude language he deployed as unpresidential, Macron remained unbowed: "When some make from their freedom . . . a motto, not only do they put others' lives at risk, but they are also curtailing others' freedom.
"People are seeing cancer treatments and elective surgeries put off because beds are filled with people who chose not to get vaccinated; they're frustrated. When people see that we're in lockdowns, or serious public health restrictions right now because [of] the risk posed to all of us by unvaccinated people, people get angry," he told reporters.
Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison, my colleagues reported, had initially distanced himself from the dispute over Djokovic's visa. But with his conservative coalition facing a tougher than expected election - and growing public outrage over what Australians saw as a priority pass for an influential athlete - Morrison stepped in.
Want to be unvaccinated in Austria? After a February mandate takes effect, that will cost you thousands of dollars in running quarterly fines. As cases spike in Italy - a country with tragic memories of the toll of covid-19 - everyone over 50 must be vaccinated, officials announced last week. If workers over 50 fail to prove they have either been vaccinated or recently recovered from the virus, they face suspension from work starting Feb. 15, Politico reported.
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