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World News See other World News Articles Title: President of Western power wants to 'piss off' the unvaccinated President of Western power wants to 'piss off' the unvaccinated 'We're going to keep doing it, until the end. This is the strategy' By Art Moore Published January 5, 2022 at 4:30pm President Joe Biden and French President Emmanuel Macron talk prior to the first session of the G7 Summit on Friday, June 11, 2021, at the Carbis Bay Hotel and Estate in St. Ives, Cornwall, England. (Official White House photo by Adam Schultz) President Biden repeatedly has scolded Americans who after weighing the risks and benefits have chosen not to get the increasingly ineffective, experimental COVID-19 shots, but his French counterpart has found new language to express contempt for the unvaccinated. "I'm not for pissing off the French ... now the unvaccinated, I really want to piss them off," Emmanuel Macron said in an interview Tuesday with the Le Parisien newspaper. "And so, we're going to keep doing it, until the end. This is the strategy," the French president said. Macron has proposed a new set of rules for unvaccinated people that would banish them from much of public life. Last month, Austria became the first European Union member to announce a law requiring that everyone in the country be vaccinated. Austria also was the first to introduce a temporary lockdown for the unvaccinated. [See WND's video interview with an Austrian activist helping lead resistance to the new nationwide mandate, which goes into effect Feb. 1.] The proposed French measures, now being debated in Parliament, would require proof of vaccination to enter restaurants and bars, and to travel inside the country. "I'm not going to put them in jail, I'm not going to forcibly vaccinate them, and so, you have to tell them: from January 15, you will no longer be able to go to the restaurant, you will no longer be able to have a drink, go for a coffee, to the theater, you will no longer go to the movies," Macron told Le Parisien. He said opponents of his mandates are "irresponsible" people who have "undermined the strength of a nation." "When my freedom threatens that of others, I become irresponsible," he said. "An irresponsible person is no longer a citizen." Critics of mandates, however, have pointed out that the COVID-19 vaccines target the initial dominant strain of the virus believed to have originated in Wuhan, China, and are ineffective against the omicron variant that is becoming dominant. Further, omicron, while much more contagious, is presenting symptoms akin to the common cold or the seasonal flu. And that combination is seen by many epidemiologists as a potential "natural vaccine" that could end the pandemic. However, the French government on Wednesday defended Macron's comments and use of coarse language, Reuters reported, which drew condemnation from the political opposition and mixed reactions from voters. Macron spokesman Gabriel Attal argued that there is a "supersonic" rise in COVID cases. "Who is pissing off who today?" Attal asked, pointing to health workers struggling to cope and businesses harmed by the pandemic. "It's those who refuse the vaccine." Post Comment Private Reply Ignore Thread
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