Compulsory, Obligatory, or Enforced Vaccination?

When I demanded Compulsory Vaccination Now in a previous blog, I did not consider the pitfalls of translation.

Compulsory vaccination translates into Impfpflicht or Impfzwang, a considerable difference in German. Let me try my English to translate the above German words more precisely:

Impfpflicht > obligatory vaccination

Impfzwang > enforced vaccination

My native tongue readers may like to weigh in.

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Why do I come back to vaccinations? The present Corona situation im Germany is out of control. The former model European has become the continent's bad guy.

Corona incidence in Germany (©ntv)

It is evident that in federal states where vaccination rates are low, Corona incidences are high. 

Percentage of people vaccinated in Germany (©ntv)

This is why El Camino Real leading out of this fourth pandemic wave, is to vaccinate, vaccinate, vaccinate.

By the end of the year, many believe 30 million additional doses should have been administered, an impossible feat. These are essentially booster vaccinations, while a hardcore - about a quarter of the German population - refuses to be vaccinated against Corona.

General Carsten Breuer (©ntv)

Now a General, Carsten Breuer, an expert in logistics, is supposed to fix it with the help of the Bundeswehr. Germany often follows the US, where generals have shown what good military experience can do for a country as presidents and in higher government positions.

And you, unvaccinated, move your asses to the next vaccination offer,
damn quick! (©BZ/Heiko Sakurai)

However, snapping at people is of little help against notorious vaccination deniers. That's why Germany is preparing to make vaccination obligatory. Like Red Baron, given the Corona situation in Germany, many influential politicians like Angela Merkel, the acting chancellor, or Olaf Scholz, the candidate for the chancellor who is to be elected next week, came out publicly in favor of obligatory vaccination.

Perhaps this year, but no later than the beginning of next year, the new government will introduce a bill on obligatory vaccination to the Bundestag, which will vote on it. If around a quarter of the population continues to reject voluntary vaccination by then, it is expected that the Bundestag will adopt the new law with a majority that is not small.

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Until then, a conference of the state governors, together with Angela Merkel and Olaf Scholz, yesterday agreed on a nationwide tightening in the fight against Corona. The 2G rule applies throughout. Unvaccinated people represent a high risk of infection for themselves and others. They are now excluded from most social activities, including shopping for non-essential goods.

These rules are minimum requirements. Federal states are free to introduce further tightened measures depending on the Corona situation on their territory.

Red Baron keeps both fingers crossed that Germany will break the fourth Corona wave by Christmas, and incidence figures will be reduced to a tolerable level. Otherwise, tougher measures like lockdowns and stricter contact restrictions are not out of the question. Germany finally bites the bullet and tries hard to get over it.

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