Postcard From Romania

We’re publishing a new addition to our ongoing series ‘Around the World in 80 Lockdowns’ today – a “Postcard From Romania”. Romania isn’t in lockdown at the moment – but the Government’s attempts to vaccinate the population has stalled and Romania currently sits second from bottom in the European vaccination league, just above Bulgaria. Here is an extract:

On the face of it, Romania’s much the same as elsewhere in Europe. Masks are compulsory inside, but not out. Vaccination clinics have popped up like mushrooms in a dark Transylvanian forest. Just yesterday we passed the famous clinic at Dracula’s Castle, promoted across the region with banners (which must’ve cost a pretty penny) bearing the provocative message: “Who’s afraid of a vaccine? Come get it; one sting and you’re immune!”

Even in the middle of a mountainous nowhere, right after the needle-shaped curve of a narrow road crossing the mountain-face from east to west: VACCINATION CLINIC 100m. And lo, there it was! A lonely little wooden cabin, apparently thrown together one night in a desperate hurry, lying between the road and the ravine. What if a traveller from Moldavia to Transylvania (some panjandrum must have fretted) were to feel a sudden urge for a sting right at that improbable chicane? Good preventive thinking. One never knows.

And yet one does, because the bigger urban vaccination sites are every bit as empty. Big banners hung across the boulevards beckon to the population. ‘There is one just across the street… 100m… No need to move far from the safety of your apartment…’ etc., yet people are shunning them. According to reports last month, the country has stopped importing vaccines and even sold a million unused doses to Denmark.

Worth reading in full.

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Cristi.Neagu
4 years ago

Last I heard, Romania, a country with a population of just over 19m, has ordered 120m vaccine doses.

Cristi.Neagu
4 years ago

Interesting passage:

Currently around 30% of Romanians have received at least one jab. We’re second from Europe’s bottom, above Bulgaria with 16%. Interestingly, we were counting 50 new cases a day until the end of July, a number which has now increased to 300. This is still a far cry from Belgium (where I live), which has nearly half of Romania’s population but where figures this summer have not dipped below 1,000 a day. Last summer, when there was no vaccine, it was around 250 a day. Today it’s just above 1,700 and rising, with over 70% of the Belgian population jabbed.

If this isn’t proof of a test-demic, I don’t know what is.

Susan
4 years ago
Reply to  Cristi.Neagu

Or a case of the shots making people ill?

Hugh
Hugh
4 years ago
Reply to  Cristi.Neagu

Note also the comment that a lot of people weren’t really getting vaccinated, making the 30% figure probably quite a large overestimate.

Mark
4 years ago

Romania currently sits second from bottom in the European vaccination league

Well presumably they’re all dead by now, or will be soon, I thought.

Imagine my surprise when I looked at the numbers and it turned out that actually Romania’s experience had been much like the rest of Europe’s. Those epidemic “case” and death rises even seemed to magically go down all on their own, without the wondrous “wall of vaccinated people” that we were told was all that had saved us from disaster.

It’s all so confusing….. [Not really.]

miketa1957
miketa1957
4 years ago
Reply to  Mark

Ditto Bugaria, which is bottom.

Hugh
Hugh
4 years ago
Reply to  Mark

Is that Europe or the European union (less than half the land mass and a little over half the population of Europe)?

JayBee
4 years ago

If the ‘link between the recent case rises and hospitalisations and deaths’ is also broken in Romania and Bulgaria, we know for sure that the ‘vaccines’ did sh*t all in that regard, and that this would be due to much higher than expected natural immunity and the dry tinder having been burned.
If the case rises also remain smaller than in the highly ‘vaccinated’ countries, we’ll also know that they are actually counterproductive with regard to this.
I wouldn’t be surprised at all anymore.
The equal flu+Covid data and sums, in conjunction with the CDC cessation of approval for any PCR test that cannot distinguish between the two, firmly suggest if not confirm that most if not all of Covid was really the flu (or Beriberi).
We’ve just been had and f*cked.
Royally.
And still are.

CynicalRealist
4 years ago
Reply to  JayBee

If the ‘link between the recent case rises and hospitalisations and deaths’ is also broken in Romania and Bulgaria, we know for sure that the ‘vaccines’ did sh*t all in that regard, and that this would be due to much higher than expected natural immunity and the dry tinder having been burned.

And possibly also the current dominant variant causes less severe illness – but of course no government wants to consider this possibility as it would undermine the claims that “it was the jabs what done it”.

amanuensis
4 years ago

“Who’s afraid of a vaccine? Come get it; one sting and you’re immune!”

That’s misinformation — a single jab offers puny protection from covid, and even the immunity from two jabs is rather poor and short lived.

Presumably given this misinformation there’ll be articles in the press about how stupid they are, special reports from fact-checkers and them having their social media pages removed.

Cristi.Neagu
4 years ago
Reply to  amanuensis

In case you haven’t noticed, government officials do not care at all about misinformation. Us plebs can be banned from social media, ridiculed in the press, given fines, beaten, imprisoned over “misinformation” (i.e. information the government doesn’t like to be made public) but government officials will never be held responsible for the spread of real misinformation. Case in point: https://petition.parliament.uk/petitions/576886?reveal_response=yes

RW
RW
4 years ago
Reply to  amanuensis

That’s a conjecture. It is known that antibody levels wane within months. People belonging to the group of scientists you mustn’t listen to claim that’s perfectly normal and means nothing. That’s also sort-of logical, because nothing organic is deathless and in absence of pathogens, why would antibodies for them still be produced?

Only One vax, two vax, three vax, four, vax you all once more! people claim that this would be dangerous. But according to them, only utmost exertion 24/7 covdinism can save anyone from the horrible disease, IOW, they would say that, wouldn’t they?

Cranmer
Cranmer
4 years ago

I’d like to think that eastern Europeans, with their recent history, are a little less susceptible to state coercion techniques and propaganda. I remember when living in Hungary having difficult explaining to someone what the Special Constabulary was in England. She kept asking ‘but why do people do that if the government does not force them to?’

Encierro
4 years ago
“Who’s afraid of a vaccine? Come get it; one sting and you’re immune!”

As we all know, that is sending the wrong message.
Question is how are these vaccines being transported and stored? I understood the requirement to keep them at low temps are critical in preserving the shelf life of them. A small wooden shack in the middle of no-where is not inspiring confidence.

RW
RW
4 years ago

Thanks for writing that.

gone_loopy
gone_loopy
4 years ago

Can vampires drink the blood of the va xxed? Asking for a friend

Hugh
Hugh
4 years ago

“Try to enter a church with a mask on and an old lady will remind you this is disrespectful towards God!”.

Can I move to Romania?

Schmendrick67
Schmendrick67
4 years ago

‘While in rural areas, with much less police around, there never really was a lockdown.’ Hmm…that’s a quite accurate description of situation. In my village at least. But: ‘the lack of satellite TV’ is a wild assumption. My take is that,like my village, which is full of antennas (all around as same) it’s the same everywhere.