A majority of senators rejected a large number of measures the government is seeking to have at its fingertips without parliamentary control in the name of an extended 'sanitary state of emergency.'
Opponents have drawn a parallel between the yellow star Jews were forced to wear under Nazi rule and the QR-code that is now necessary to board long-distance public transport, go to a restaurant or a café (outdoor patio included), enter museums, festivals, fairs, and theaters, get non-urgent hospital care, or visit friends and relatives in hospitals and homes for the dependent elderly.
COVID treatments such as Ivermectin have been impounded and are no longer available to doctors who want to help their patients and not send them home with paracetamol.
'Liberté, liberté!' shouted the multitude with conviction. But never was the cry so loud, so unanimous as when it opposed the vaccination of children: 'Don’t touch our kids!'