A Foggy Day in Freiburg Town,

didn't have me low and down last Saturday. On the contrary, Red Baron possibly was the oldest demonstrator supporting the vaccination against Covid-19.

You are NOT Freiburg.
Mask on, Nazis out.
Your right-wing stupidity ends with our health.
Queer thinking instead of lateral thinking.

Like last time, to avoid leaving the field to the anti-vaxxers, Sebastian Müller had called for a counter-demonstration at the square of the Old Synagogue. 

Again we started our rally at 1:30 p.m., they at 2 p.m., again we were kept separated by a cordon of anti-riot police, and again we were the minority, i.e., 500 to 2500.

Blathering can kill !!!

We had a prominent supporter: Ulrich von Kirchbach, Freiburg's social and cultural affairs mayor, who spoke to the "crowd."

By now, we all know the arguments of the anti-vaxxers. An analysis says 22 percent think the virus is not worse than the flu. 43 percent find the media coverage "highly exaggerated." A third even agrees with the statement that there are "secret organizations" that "have a great influence on political decisions during the Corona crisis." 

 There are supposed freedom fighters like the Vice President of the Bundestag and leading member of the Liberals, Wolfgang Kubicki. He is mobilizing against the introduction of universal obligatory vaccination. Recently he said, "Many supporters of obligatory vaccination seem to be concerned with revenge and retribution." Kubicki ein Querdenker; I shake my head. 

 In Freiburg, the anti-vaxxers had the "Gadsden Flag" on display. From the Internet, I learned that the flag is used by right-wing extremists in the United States. The young man wearing such a flag explained that it is a sign against "Big Government," for distrust of the state is essential. 

A speaker stirred up the demonstrators from the stage: "We are the fifth wave," she shouted. 

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Thinking of Omicron, I fear she might be correct; although the infection rate is still decreasing in Germany, while in Denmark and the UK, the infections are already driven by this so-called escape mutant, i.e., subverting the protection given by vaccination.

 Some people think our health experts paint an epidemic emergency on the wall. In contrast, others claim that Germany will get lost in the next wave or, more dramatically, will run into a veritable Omicron wall. The Germans and their wall. 

 Here are some slogans from our camp I took last Saturday:

I do not see my rights limited or threatened.
I see myself threatened by rights and limited (persons).

I prefer to believe the wrong scientists
than lunatics who believe they are scientists.

Freedom consists primarily not of privileges but of duties.
Albert Camus
 ... and this duty is called: Go get vaccinated.

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