Postcard From Luxembourg
We’re publishing a guest post today by Russell Davis, a blogger who has made a point of travelling to all 27 countries in the E.U., completing his quest during lockdown. His final trip – number 27 – was to the tiny principality of Luxembourg. Unfortunately, it was a bit of a nightmare. Here’s an extract:
The Luxembourg trip started off okay. I flew from London City Airport (a place where in one toilet four out of five hand basins are designated unsafe to use), to the tiny country’s tiny capital in a tiny plane provided by Luxair, which was considerably more pleasant than Ryanair last month. I stayed at the somewhat overpriced Novotel Luxembourg Centre.
The country’s tight rules had been tightened up further on November 1st. This followed seven deaths over the month of October where Covid was mentioned in a nation of 633,000 people. A further three people, so fewer than one in 200,000, succumbed to it during my three-night stay; the grand Covid death total for Luxembourg over the last two years is 855. Consequently, my hotel was awash with paranoia: every time you went to the hotel restaurant (called Red Square, ironically) you had to show proof that you’re double-jabbed; masks are mandatory everywhere; the remote control in my room was in a sealed envelope to protect me from harm; hand sanitiser is the most common furniture and there are instruction sheets on how to use it, perhaps in case guests mistakenly apply it to their feet. But this is a hotel where the breakfast baked beans have carrots in them and room service come to tidy your room at 8.40am. Carrots! 8.40am! Not good.
Worth reading in full.
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Anyone who uses a vax pass is participating in medical apartheid and should be ashamed of themselves.
Well said, especially using one to get into bloody Luxembourg.
It’s really simple now. Don’t wear a mask, don’t take the vaccine. Ever.
While I have this comment box open, do you remember the classic movie, The Omega Man, with Charlton Heston. I keep thinking about that movie. And the moment, where his ally, the woman of colour (I don’t recall her name), gets back to his apartment, and unwraps her scarf, to reveal that she too has become one of the zombies/vaccinated, and that chilling line: ‘Matthias sent me’. If you know it, you know what I’m talking about.
That’s all I hear these days when I read about someone else who has succumbed to the mask/vaccine madness: ‘Matthias sent me’.
Ok, that’s it, carry on.
Meanwhile in Austria (according to something I heard of yesterday): Police out in masses everywhere to hunt for unvaccinated in shops and other prohibited places. They’ve brought this on themselves! How dare they exercise a choice with THIS situation in the hospitals!
[THIS situation typically being someone claims something really bad will happen in a few weeks if his conjectures should turn out to be true for the first time, although I have no specific information on that]
Thanks for the nice article.
Hands up anyone who knows where Adolf Hitler was born and spent his formative years.
Here’s a piccy of one of the architects of our misfortune entering a local temple of worship.
“If you want to have a strong immune system, don’t cover your face – just stop stuffing it.”
Perhaps keeping a mask on whilst eating will do the trick.
They certainly don’t deserve General Patton’s grave anymore.
Another depressing postcard. It does seem that, for the moment at least, England seems to be an outlier in terms of restrictions. But why? This doesn’t seems to fit in with the global capitalist plan. Maybe we just seeing a delayed reaction before the upcoming by-elections?
Fuck Luxem…….. fuck it, can’t even be bothered to spell it
Well that just confirms that my decision not to have a foreign holiday was the right one
Correct, even having a holiday in dear old Blighty feels foreign nowadays.
Carrots in baked beans for breakfast! Weird!
Perhaps they should rename it “the paranoid inn” instead of Novotel.
Lovely writing Russell thank you the good old British sense of humour always prevails.
I went there on a school trip decades ago. It was shut. Good article, especially the following observation:
“Public health zealots now run the world, enabled by craven politicians, an alarmist media and dubious Big Tech organisations. Having travelled to five European countries in the last 16 months, I’ve noticed the screws getting tighter, not looser. (So much for the miraculous vaccines getting us back to normal!) It’s moderate tyranny dressed up in nurses’ scrubs. The lands we thought the most civilised have enacted the most authoritarian controls. But then wasn’t this the case in the 1930s, when one of the world’s most sophisticated nations started a cataclysmic conflict?”