They are making a show of force on TV, but they are no different than here. They don't have the troops to lock everyone down and need voluntary compliance for the vast majority of it.

They will probably get it too.

I can give you a Canadian example for comparison, a city of 200,000 people with about 2400 cops. Cops work in shifts, so only about 800 working at one time. Of that, only about 400 can be on the streets, in cars, two per car, so about 200 cars total, and that is being generous, to patrol the entire city of 200,000. One cop car per 1000 citizens. If 10% are locked down, the one car has to enforce on 100 citizens. It can't be done.

So you make a lot of noise on TV.

If they lose the TV, they lose control.

Austrian here. We currently have lockdowns for the unvaxed, while the vaxxed can pretty much do whatever they want. The police, as always, are enforcing the government rule by randomly asking people in malls, restaurants, stores to show their papers. There was an incident here in Vienna where the police coupled with WEGA(special police force) went into a restaurant with automatic weapons, there is footage online.

The government is not pleased with the population which they see as plebs, not taking the vaccine. Our new chancellor, who was put into power (because the last one resigned due to corruption investigation) and was not elected, is 'deeply ashamed of thr vaccine quotas' and wants to 'pull the reighns tighter: https://www.google.com/amp/s/amp.heute.at/s/kanzler-will-zuegel-der-ungeimpften-straffer-ziehen-100172115

The government announced that they will have lockdowns for all people in the next future. They are also legally testing the grounds for a hard vaccine mandate. The news media is very much propaganda as it is everywhere.

we must be doing fascism alphabetically. hopefully USA will be last.

Not really, places like some suburbs and inner city Melbourne\Sydney are getting much more of a heavy handed approach, most of our cops and the public don't seem to give much of a shit either way outside of the major cities.

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they are not allowed to even talk on the internet about it.. everything is monitored

It depends on the business or what you're doing, and ultimately the person who's on the front door of places (if they are enforcing it). None of the unjabbed people I know, or myself, have been refused entry to places.