Special Envoy to Dresden
“Politicians talk about democracy, but here it is dictatorship.”
Steve, by an assumed name that hardly sounds German, rails against the fifty or so police officers who, on the other side of the street, form a cordon in order to isolate his anti-vaccine comrades. Names of birds fuse.
"The police are ridiculous, they harass us, discriminate against us when we are freedom-loving citizens and simply want to exercise our fundamental rights to express ourselves and to demonstrate"
, summarizes this thirty-something dressed all in black, cap backwards, the beard gathered in a braid that hangs below the chin. And punctuates his remarks with a shot of beer.
The same scene, embellished with more or less the same script and the same dialogues, has been repeated every Monday evening for several weeks, in Dresden and in several dozen towns in Saxony, the most populous of the new Länder of the former GDR (4 million of inhabitants).
A traditional source of contamination where the vaccination rate…
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