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The Highwire with Del Bigtree

RISING UP IN AUSTRIA

The Highwire with Del Bigtree

The Highwire with Del Bigtree

News, Society & Culture, Health & Fitness

4.93.4K Ratings

🗓️ 30 December 2021

⏱️ 21 minutes

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Summary

Austrian doctor, Maria Hubmer-Mogg, reports on the story you won’t hear on the news about Austria’s government leading the world in draconian vaccine mandate measures, and the incredible surge of Austrians showing up to protest against them.

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0:00.0

As we've been reporting, one of those nations that seems to be on the front lines right

0:05.2

now truly, you know, embattled with this issue of the pandemic is Austria.

0:11.4

And as we've been watching the headlines coming out of Austria, seeing the marches, I mean,

0:16.7

massive protests, tens of thousands of people getting together, protesting what's happening

0:22.5

there, and the headlines lead us to understand what it is exactly that they are protesting

0:27.9

against. Austria's focus shifts to full lockdown as COVID-19 cases keep rising.

0:34.9

Austria orders nationwide lockdown for the unvaccinated. So they started out with locking

0:39.5

down everybody. Then they backed it off. The vaccinated could have some freedoms. Now

0:43.4

it's just the unvaccinated, but that wasn't enough. Now one of the first times we've seen

0:47.4

in the world, we're moving into fines on those that are unvaccinated. Austria to implement

0:52.8

vaccine register, fine unvaccinated residents up to $4,000. In the sort of middle of this

1:00.2

insanity in Austria, there is a loud and powerful voice, a doctor named Maria Hummer-Mog,

1:07.2

who has been organizing many of these protests, standing for the people, tens of thousands

1:13.3

of people getting together. She's also known to be one of the best dressed when it comes

1:18.0

to doing television and news interviews in Austria. Of course, they're wearing the high-wire

1:23.3

t-shirt, which I think is the best way to do that. But to get to the bottom of what's

1:28.4

really happening in a nation that seems on the other side of the world yet is so close

1:33.8

to what we're experiencing, I'm honored to be joined right now by Dr. Mog. First of all,

1:41.2

you're doing incredible work there, but I feel like I can't trust the news any longer.

1:46.9

And so I want to know what's really happening on Austria, Austria, from your perspective.

1:51.7

So what is taking place? Is it bad? Is it bad? Is it bad as it seems here in America

1:56.3

and the headlines that we're seeing?

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