Instead of vaccination, the government should focus on prevention and drug development. He demanded an affidavit from Federal Chancellor Sebastian Kurz (ÖVP) that there will be no “compulsory corona vaccination” in Austria. He himself is still unvaccinated “in good conscience”.
“I am not vaccinated and it is also my intention to stay that way in the future,” emphasized the FPÖ boss at a press conference – “especially when the vaccination pressure is increased more and more by the authorities”. Although he has “no problem at all” when someone is vaccinated, it is an “irresponsible approach” to exert pressure. Because this leads to citizens being vaccinated out of fear of professional disadvantages, worries about bullying of children in school or disadvantages of other kinds. He was “unvaccinated in good conscience” because he did not want to let the bad conscience of the federal government “and its henchmen” persuade him.
Kickl calls for a change in strategy
With the “de facto professional bans”, which would go “far beyond the health sector” and the pressure in schools, exactly what the FPÖ had always warned of, namely an indirect compulsory vaccination, Kickl found. And it is not just a stitch or a second, it is a “never-ending story”. The goal of the FPÖ is to break through this and to re-establish the “principle of voluntariness”, said Kickl, who described the corona vaccination as a “clinical field trial”.
The FPÖ boss questioned the usefulness of the corona vaccination, among other things with reference to vaccination breakthroughs: Because this does not protect against infection and also not against transmission, he claimed – and there is also no clarity with regard to the negative consequences, he said. The portrayal of the vaccination as a “game changer” – as Kurz had always called it – has been refuted, said Kickl with reference to data from Israel, among other things. There, more than half of the infected are already vaccinated, as is the “majority” of those hospitalized and a “large proportion” of the seriously ill.
Since the vaccination “does not keep what the policy promises”, there must be a change in strategy. “It may be the wrong approach to just fight the virus. Perhaps it would make more sense to strengthen the host,” said Kickl, calling for “preventive measures”. When asked, he said it was about strengthening the immune system: “There are many options”, such as “vitamin supplements”, the recommendation “to work with bitter substances”, to exercise as much fresh air as possible “and to encourage interpersonal relationships cultivate who is not dominated by fear “. In addition, he called for the “increased use of drugs” and more support for research in this area.
The fact that the government is currently calling for even more vaccinations is a “slap in the face of common sense”. “The whole thing has nothing to do with health policy, it is about tough business interests of the pharmaceutical industry.” Kickl appealed to the medical profession to be critical: the “uncritical mass processing in connection with vaccination” does not “go together” with the professional ethos.
Kickl demands an affidavit from Federal Chancellor Kurz, which he wanted to send to him by messenger on Wednesday. In it, the Chancellor should guarantee “that there is neither direct nor indirect compulsory corona vaccination in Austria” and that unvaccinated people do not have to fear any reprisals.
