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I’m a big proponent of vaccines but this is pretty egregious over-reach.

> That changes in mid-March, when the police are to start conducting random checks of vaccination status — including during traffic stops.

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I disagree with it, bit I still think an actual mandate is much more honest than eg Canada's defacto mandates where nobody forces you to get vaccinated but they force businesses to check vaccination on entry and make it so someone who doesn't want to provide medical information to every business they enter is excluded from daily life. At least a government mandate is honest about how totalitarian the government is

Every state has some rules about safety. Traffic, food production, health care and so one. These rules are in place because they are a good thing that creates order out of chaos, it makes things more predictable.

Does it make every government totalitarian?

I do not know if that move Austrian government made is a smart one but I certainly can understand the motivation behind it. I do not support their decision wholeheartedly but I'm not sure I should oppose it either.

We can argue at the moment that the situation has changed. Perhaps. But the main principle I described here remains.

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