There is not an “enormous majority”, even in the relatively vaccine-hesitant US, that opposes vaccine mandates; there is, on recent polls, within the MoE of 50% that opposes a general adult mandate, and only a minority that opposes slightly narrower mandates attached to participation in most significant public activities.

In Germany, the subject of the story, support for a general mandate was in the high 50s a month ago and around 70% now. Opposition is a rapidly shrinking minority.

True patriots would say there should be a big reversal at the ballot box instead of threatening violence with your fellow countrymen.

The problem of course is that once one side lost a fairly held election, the vocal minority went right to violence (see Jan 6). And now violence is acceptable political discourse on one side.

And now it seems like one political party is worse than Russia -- who assassinates it's political dissidents.

I'm pretty sure if you ask around, no patriots wanted Steve Scalise, Ronald Reagan, JFK, Malcolm X, Gabbi Giffords, etc to have been shot.