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And what can we learn from this story?

Middle-Left coalitions are actually a pretty good idea.

As if data retention was the only thing the government had to decide on...

To be fair, data retention is a hot topic right now in Europe, the pandemic and the increased screen time that resulted from it, the amount of accounts we had to create left and right require new regulations.

I live in Europe and the only hot topic I can think of, apart from the virus, is energy prices. The same energy prices the center-left wants to increase via CO2 taxes.

>I live in Europe and the only hot topic I can think of, apart from the virus, is energy prices.

And real estate prices. Don't forget the insane real estate market.

Ah indeed. But that bubble has been in the making for 10+ years. It's not a topic of conversation because we are all used to it.

> The same energy prices the center-left wants to increase via CO2 taxes.

The alternative is worse. Fire is hot. Water is wet.

The alternative of poor people being able to heat their homes? Yes, that would indeed be terrible.

We're lucky then that center-left is precisely the government you want to provide financial support to poor households.

In fact, for heating, this is already happening pretty much everywhere in Europe where households otherwise wouldn't be able to pay those bills.

More like that people do not read articles. They're discussing mandatory vaccinations, they are talking about banning Telegram, with Buschmann saying he's not pro ban but wants to censor Telegram content like they already censor other social media. It's a huge thorn in their claws that they don't control this platform because they're based outside the West. The new chancellor is corrupt and helped cover up the embazzling of over 60 billion euros in the largest tax fraud in German history (CumEx). Forgive me for being skeptical. This is likely smoke and mirrors, just like their announcement to legalize cannabis to distract young voters from all the scandals and authoritarian policies.

Mandatory vaccinations helped to eradicate smallpox.

And yes, social media providers have to get their act together if they want to do business in Europe.

Vaccination isn't going to eradicate SARS, you don't understand how coronaviruses work. If it were that easy we'd already have eradicated a whole bunch of viruses. Any year now the flu is going to be eradicated, just gotta vax more. /s

> Vaccination isn't going to eradicate SARS

Did I say it it would? Pretty sure I was talking about smallpox, as a general example how mandatory vaccinations helped in the past.

Also, COVID and SARS are two different diseases, caused by different Coronaviridae.

Vaccination makes COVID less likely to spread through the population, and can prevent a severe course of the illness.

>Pretty sure I was talking about smallpox, as a general example how mandatory vaccinations helped in the past.

So how is it relevant to this conversation, which isn't about smallpox and where mandatory vaccination won't help?

SARS-CoV-1 and SARS-CoV-2 are both SARS, it's not a coincidence they're named such. The media simply called the first one 'SARS' when there wasn't a second one yet. Then they labeled the new one "coronavirus". You can see even the people reporting on this are confused.

> So how is it relevant to this conversation

It shows that mandatory vaccination works in fighting infectious diseases. Whether that results in the eradication of the disease, or getting it under control to a degree that we no longer have to have lockdowns, and/or masks in public transports, is irrelevant.

Oh and COVID means COronaVirus Disease. SARS is a coronavirus, both of them are coronaviruses.

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