Posted on 01/31/2022 5:59:56 PM PST by SeekAndFind
Greece is now imposing fines on people age 60 and older who are unvaccinated – even as COVID-19 cases have been declining.
As of last week, people 60 and older who refuse to get vaccinated will be fined 50 euros – equivalent to around $56.60. That fee will then rise to 100 euros in February and every month afterward.
Health officials say the threat of a fine has helped increase the take-up rate to more than 90% of this age group, Reuters reported.
Health Minister Thanos Plevris said the fines would be collected through the tax office with the money going to help fund state hospitals.
"The age factor is important because of its impact on the public health service," Plevris told the Greek outlet Open TV last Sunday.
The new mandate has divided opinion, with some supporting the decision amid a rise in the omicron variant and others expressing frustration. One Greek resident who spoke to Euronews said they were being unfairly punished for not being able to book a vaccination appointment ahead of the mandate taking effect.
"Why didn’t they give me an appointment earlier? It’s not my fault, but now they say that I should pay a fine. Why?" the resident told the outlet.
Panagiotis Chatzigiannis, 73, told Reuters that the mandate was good because it will keep people from dying, but it will be "a bit hefty for pensioners."
Pensioners, who have been dealt a blow over the last decade with the country’s debt crisis, make up about a fifth of Greece’s population of 11 million people.
On Sunday, Greece reported more than 12,100 new cases and a nearly 19,000 seven-day average – down from its peak in early January.
Roughly two-thirds of the population is fully vaccinated, while the EU average is just over 70%.
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They want them to die.
TYRANNY!
Fox loves Biden and vaccines. What a nest of traitors they are.
The ones that weren’t killed at the beginning of the covid biological attacks anyhow.
Thanos ?
If you are 60 and older we need to kill you off!
Abortion is legal in Greece. So what is the difference? Kill them before they are born, and kill them for no reason other than conformity to the state. No more Kalamata olives or olive oil from Greece.
I’ll bet a person there could get a good vaccination certificate for no more than 50 euros, database entry and all.
Starving Seniors into submission
Pensioners are expensive alive. Free when dead
jizya tax
RE: TYRANNY!
How do you think such an imposition would play out in the United States given the precarious state of Medicare?
Would the Supreme Court ( with John Roberts as Chief Justice and Kavanaugh tagging along ) decide that government has the right to impose fines on the unvaccinated? ( John Roberts could call it a tax on the Seniors, just like he did with Obamacare ).
And that no man might buy or sell, save he that had the mark, or the name of the beast, or the number of his name.
How Regressive of the leftists fining pensioners. Goddamned, lying, vicious animals.
Those unvaccinated seniors in Greece need to start vaccinating tax officials, not with a needle but with a sword. Or with a burning stake in officials.
you’d think the greeks would know a thing or two about Tyrants all things considered
This is like the weekly testing I have to do at work because I’m unvaxxed while vaxxed people around me are getting Covid.
In about a month the backlash will come for those who believed Fauci, and they will turn on Fauci.
Doesn’t their taxes already pay for their healthcare ?
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