"It used to be said that Greeks gave their lives for freedom now they are giving up their freedom for their lives." 
The EU’s Van Der Leyen and Mitsotakis announcing the Davos Great Reset Agenda for Greeks.
After the partial retreat by the Mitsotakis govt approach to Covid which was to crack heads open in plain sight by his praetorian guards (trained and psychologically prepared for the job at hand after decade of IMF austerity) which led to a mini rebellion, the Covid clowns that run Greece are back with a vengeance, instituting one of Europes first Covid apartheid regimes. From the 15th July once restaurants open on the inside alongside cinemas and theatres a Covid passport will be required to gain access.
Dividing society between the vaxxed and unvaxxed appears to be the ‘new normal’.
The ‘Chinese virus’
In order to justify an extended 2nd Lockdown (November 2020-May 2021) the Mitsotakis govt ramped up the deaths to around 10% of all deaths in a single year (around 13k) thus almost matching Sweden despite having compulsory masks inside and out, travel permits and a whole host of other measures thus proving once and for all that nothing was gained in relation to Sweden.
If we now take it a step further we see that Chinas Covid deaths have remained below 4k since April 2020 for a country of 1.5billion people whilst Greece’s are three times as many. So we are dealing with a ‘Chinese virus’ with almost zero deaths in China, but a runaway train in the capitalist west which begs the question, are the Chinese burying their Covid dead en masse without reporting them or is the West making the majority of figures up?
Either which way it can’t be both a deadly Chinese virus which only effects non-Chinese people….and a non-deadly Chinese virus.
Are we dealing with an actual pandemic which saw global population actually rise in 2020 or with political economic measures to wipe out a middle class which still isn’t 100% dependent on large global multinational chains.
Since the Greek Lockdowns overseas delivery and transport companies have either made a comeback (like Uber) or have set up shop (like Walt , similar to Uber eats). Either which way the ‘Chinese virus’ is no longer a political football inside China, but in Greece Covid is still the only show on the road.
Destroying tourism one Covid-1984 rule at a time
Despite lifting certain restrictions when Prince Charles visited for the 200 year anniversary of the independence of Greece from the Ottoman Empire showing in practice that Covid is a very clever virus, the Mitsotakis govt has tried its hardest to stop tourism despite alleging it is… ‘fully open’.
Visitor number based on arrivals by plane in the first six months of 2021 are at 76% of the numbers for the same period in 2019. One bankruptcy after another arrives in the news media but is buried in the back pages as we are… ‘Building Back Better’.
The oldest and largest company Mouzenidis travel which operated with offices from Moscow for Russian travellers and having brought over 1m tourists in 2019 just went bust. In response the Mitsotakis government introduced new restrictions on Russian travellers by refusing to recognise their Sputnik vaccine and forcing them to do a PCR test to fly to Greece and another test on arrival. As for the Chinese they are banned from coming to the EU.
An internal shipping company Agoudimos transport has also gone bust. With numbers not expected to be more than 30% of the last full year 2019 and with poorer tourists this will imply a second year with a loss of tourist income. It’s no coincidence that in one region fights broke out amongst councillors who wanted to ban migrunt arrivals as hotel owners have arrived at a point in time wanting to have anyone in to collect some money instead of zero.
Tens of hotels are up for auction and the aim may actually be by targeting tourism to close or merge independent hotels and aim to turn certain areas into Florida style accommodation for retired eg German pensioners. That’s why Syriza handed over 14 regional airports to a German company and Brussels imposes constant Covid-1984 rules. By destroying the competition they aim to gain control of many hotel units to use them as they see fit.
By limiting Russian and Chinese tourism they make the dependence of the Greek tourist industry on Government handouts when Lockdowns are imposed and they have finally changed the nature of the tourist labour market.
Pre-Covid-1984 one used to get a standard 6 month contract for the hotel industry (chefs, waiters, cleaners, drivers, reception etc.) and then sign on the unemployment office in the winter months, now the contracts are month by month and the instability and insecurity created implies many workers refuse to even countenance that so shortages have been created in many island areas due to this instability. The hotel industry is very labour intensive in terms of cooking and cleaning and difficult to automate in those areas.
Covid Junta morphs into a Covid Apartheid
The Mitsotakis government was praised by the Economist as being the best rule book followers for Covid. They are now attempting to divide society into vaxxed and unvaxxed and are implementing measures to support only the vaxxed. The reason might be due to the slow uptake of the vax which according to their own figures imply:
An analysis of the vaxxes in the Greater Athens shows the following:
Western Athens 21% one dose 16.3% double vaxx
Eastern Athens 21.97% with one dose and 15.88% double vaxx
Northern Suburbs 81% with one dose 60% with two vaxxes
Piraeus 28% with one and 22% with two vaxxes…
It’s good to remember the OXI referendum in Greece which if more than anything else contributed to Brexit as it became de facto a pro EU Referendum with all the media campaigning for a YES vote.
OXI (NO) YES
Western Athens
Elefsina 71.88% 28.12%
Aspropirgos 79% 20%
Northern Suburbs
Marousi 49.52 50.48%
Kifisia 36%. 63.92%
Filothei Psihiko 28% 71.84%
Piraeus
Keratisini-Drapa 72.84% 27.16%
Koridallos 71.25% 28.75%
Perama. 76.64%. 23.30%
If one knows the wealth distribution of Athens one sees that the socio-economic distribution of vaxxed and unvaxxed is that the areas with more money are the ones that had the vaxxes and those with less money voted with their feet mirroring the anti-EU referendum of the last decade.
That explains in part the venom by all the parties in Parliament against the people. All the parties present either voted for the 3 Memorandums of Understanding with the Troika or abstained from the OXI Referendum (KKE).
In all press releases or statements by leaders of the Opposition, getting the vax is the priority all else secondary.
The Greek government has introduced internal Covid passports to travel from the mainland to the islands and wants to extend them when going from region to region. Failure to comply implies one cannot board a ship or a plane, but if one isn’t vaxxed one has to pay Euro 20 for a Rapid Test to go and same again to come back. The same rule will apply if one is going to be inside a theatre, a cinema, or nightclub or attending an open air football match…
Its no coincidence then that the Mitsotakis government announced 150 Euro incentives to all those aged between 18-25 knowing full well that they won’t be rushing to take the vax.
After announcing with much funfare the pro-vaxx measures and asking eateries to declare their interest only 6% declared they would accept only vaxxed and a movement on Facebook and Telegram has emerged out of the blue with over 60k participants against this ‘medical apartheid’.
The government appearing to be incensed announced another raft of measures that they would do spot checks on restaurants and if anyone is found to be sitting inside and not having done a rapid test they would be fined alongside the owner and establishments would face closure starting from 7 days. Covid fascism at its finest.
Government announces 13 Hospital Closures
This same government and the same ministers bar a few odd exceptions in the previous dccade when they were implementing Troika Memorandum (2012-14) became internationally famous for cancelling cancer treatments for patients is now saving lives by announcing 13 hospital closures (five of which are in Athens and Thessaloniki).
In the midst of the ‘deadiest pandemic’ in history according to Mitsotakis certain hospitals are too close to each other and need to close in order to ensure that they are able to cater better for Covid patients after being overrun by all those …cases. 95% of which are all over 70 years of age with one and more underlying health condition.
More and more allegations have surfaced that the Covid protocols introduced in almost every western country is what led to such large fatalities, not the actual disease itself. The lack of treatment or more precisely medical negligence for those over a certain age who weren’t in the best of health led to mass deaths thus ensuring the Covid narrative continued beyond its sell by date.
The figures speak for themselves. During the 2nd Lockdown that lasted for around 7 months Greece matched Sweden and overtook them in the rate of deaths which leaves us with the question why the Lockdowns?
EU’s Muppet Greece implementing the Green and Digital 2030 Agenda
When Ursula Van Der Leyen came to Greece to announce an 8b Euro package for a Green and Digital ID agenda it became clear Greece is being singled out once more to pioneer the latest socio economic experiment whose epicentre is techno fascism where most humans become surplus to requirements.
Greece 2.0 is a version of ‘Build Back Better’ or in our case Destroy and Leave Nothing Standing.
Having sold off almost everything, testing the new economy on the locals is the new colonialism like the small island of Astypalaia which will become a Green paradise where no cars, but electric are to be used (will be borrowed not owned) after they install giant wind farms to power the electricity making it probably impossible to sleep.
The Greek government has gotten rid of the 8hr day and has implemented new labour laws for the post-Covid era. Compulsory 7day a week working if required which will not be compensated in overtime but taken off in extra holidays when the boss sees fit making the ideal of the flexible employee equal to a switch on a machine. When you need to turn it on or it to work you press the switch or extend labour time irrespective of the other costs, ie transport, or childcare etc.
In this new ‘woke’ era, we have phenomena of migrants who died due to lack of heating being compensated to the tune of hundreds of thousands of Euros (their descendants) as they arrived illegally in the country and the country has a duty to house, feed and clothe them, whilst no such right exists for the locals. It’s no coincidence that Mitsotakis in one of his pre-electorial speeches stated that one of his main priorities is that… nativism should go. Covid it has appeared has given him a once in a lifetime opportunity to achieve that goal alongside the Opposition parties that egg him on constantly and highlight his failings as being he hasn’t implemented measures harshly enough.
The fact that the Greek army is the one that run the illegal immigration warehouse built and run all over Greece and is now involved directly in the vaccination programme in the largest such centres in Athens and Thessaloniki shows that the Greek state has become a militarised appendage of the demands of the Great Powers. Unless this link is broken, this decade will be worse than the one before.
Evans Aggelissopoulos
CURTEOUSY OF ONEWORLDPRESS.COM
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