Disinfo: People who refuse the coronavirus vaccine may have to be isolated, Merkel said

Summary

The introduction of “Covid passports” which register the tests that you did is a way of making a selection among people. This may also turn vaccination from voluntary to mandatory, and we heard Angela Merkel saying that if some people refuse to get vaccinated maybe it will be necessary to adopt measures or to isolate them socially, which is something very serious.

Disproof

This is part of a pro-Kremlin disinformation campaign about the Covid-19 and vaccination.

The claim is deliberately misleading. The actual words of Chancellor Angela Merkel were:

“If some people don’t want to be vaccinated, then perhaps we will have to make a distinction, then perhaps they won’t be able to do certain things”,

which is very different from saying that they will be “socially isolated”. German authorities have always maintained that, since Covid-19 vaccination is not mandatory in Germany, there won’t be any discrimination between those already vaccinated and those who are not. In November 2020, Merkel affirmed: “Nobody will be forced to be vaccinated, it is a voluntary decision”. So far, there are no plans to make the Covid-19 vaccine compulsory in any EU country.

See other examples in our database, such as claims that globalists use the pandemic and the Pfizer vaccine to reduce the world’s population, that the Covid-19 pandemic has triggered the process of the EU’s disintegration, that Covid-19 will allow total control of the population through forced vaccination and chips, that WHO received orders from “above” to declare a coronavirus pandemic, that Covid-19 vaccines will lead to full spectrum dominance by the Deep Dark State, or that by promoting Covid-19, the West aims to achieve the Great Reset.

This disinformation message appeared in the same TV programme as the claim that “After the Covid-19 pandemic, Bill Gates and big tech and pharma profit from stronger population control and the forging of a New World Order”

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  • Reported in: Issue 236
  • DATE OF PUBLICATION: 22/03/2021
  • Article language(s) Spanish
  • Countries and/or Regions discussed in the disinformation: Germany
  • Keywords: vaccination, coronavirus, Human rights
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