Germany locks down unvaccinated people, as leaders plan to make shots compulsory
What we&#x27;re seeing here is one of the wealthiest countries in the world with a population of &gt; 80M people crumbling over a few thousand ICU patients because of long-standing issues that were never addressed.<p>The staffing problems in hospitals (and nursing homes) have existed much longer than Covid. I heard a lot about them myself when I did my FSJ (volunteer work) back in 2004, and it&#x27;s only gotten worse since then. Our government is in full CYA mode, and doing everything they can to blame a scapegoat for problems they themselves have willingly created over decades. It&#x27;s despicable, and nobody should support it.<p>FSJ is a year-long volunteer program for young people typically organized and funded by NGOs like the Red Cross and similar. I worked with small children, plenty of the other volunteers I met regularly worked in hospitals and nursing homes. They all talked at length about how atrocious the working conditions were and how they were asked to do things they weren&#x27;t legally allowed to (e.g. taking blood, handing out medication) because the staff shortages were severe enough that people didn&#x27;t have enough time to adhere to very reasonable safety rules anymore. That was 17 years ago.<p>This is a well known, widely publicized[0] and not at all new problem, and the unvaccinated are not to blame for it. Let me repeat, we&#x27;re talking about one of the wealthiest countries in the world with a population of 83M people crumbling over a few thousand ICU patients.<p>[0]Some random articles from 2018&#x2F;19 (German):<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;gesundheit-soziales.verdi.de&#x2F;themen&#x2F;mehr-personal&#x2F;++co++735e8160-764a-11e9-9a3c-001a4a160100" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;gesundheit-soziales.verdi.de&#x2F;themen&#x2F;mehr-personal&#x2F;++...</a><p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.tagesspiegel.de&#x2F;politik&#x2F;wenn-aus-notstand-panik-wird-was-in-der-pflege-passiert-ist-ein-skandal&#x2F;25066882.html" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.tagesspiegel.de&#x2F;politik&#x2F;wenn-aus-notstand-panik-...</a><p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.zeit.de&#x2F;politik&#x2F;deutschland&#x2F;2018-05&#x2F;pflegenotstand-jens-spahn-grosse-koalition-sofortprogramm" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.zeit.de&#x2F;politik&#x2F;deutschland&#x2F;2018-05&#x2F;pflegenotsta...</a><p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.rbb-online.de&#x2F;kontraste&#x2F;ueber_den_tag_hinaus&#x2F;bildung&#x2F;pflegenotstand-krankenhaeuser.html" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.rbb-online.de&#x2F;kontraste&#x2F;ueber_den_tag_hinaus&#x2F;bil...</a>