{"id":247750,"date":"2021-12-31T06:59:28","date_gmt":"2021-12-31T06:59:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=247750"},"modified":"2022-01-02T09:48:46","modified_gmt":"2022-01-02T09:48:46","slug":"belgiums-prime-minister-considers-mandatory-vaccination","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=247750","title":{"rendered":"Belgium\u2019s prime minister considers mandatory vaccination"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1 style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>Barbara Moens \u2013 Politico Dec 27, 2021<\/strong><\/h1>\n<p>Belgian Prime Minister Alexander De Croo is considering mandatory vaccination, he <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dezondag.be\/lezersontmoetingalexanderdecroo2021\/\">told<\/a> the newspaper De Zondag in an interview published over the Christmas weekend.<\/p>\n<p>The French-speaking socialists, who are part of De Croo&#8217;s government, had previously asked for mandatory vaccination in Belgium, but De Croo <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tijd.be\/politiek-economie\/belgie\/federaal\/de-croo-verplichte-vaccinatie-is-politieke-luiheid\/10347783.html\">called<\/a> such a step &#8220;political laziness.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>In a seeming change of heart, Belgium&#8217;s liberal prime minister said the situation on intensive care units was now making him reconsider. &#8220;The impact of a relatively small group on our healthcare is too big. We can not allow that to happen. Keynes, a British economist, once said: &#8216;When the facts change, I change my mind.&#8217; Good arguments can convince me.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The goal is clear: we must vaccinate everyone.\u00a0If the path of mandatory vaccination can help, then I would like to consider it.\u00a0Mind you: A government cannot decide that by itself.\u00a0That debate must happen in parliament,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>On Sunday, the number of COVID-19 patients in Belgian hospitals dropped below 2,000 for the first time since the beginning of November, according to a press release from the national public health institute Sciensano. But authorities expect this number to rise again because of the Omicron variant.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.eu\/article\/belgiums-prime-minister-considers-mandatory-vaccination\/\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;The goal is clear,&#8221; says Belgian Prime Minister Alexander De Croo, &#8220;we must vaccinate everyone.&#8221; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":39262,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[105],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-247750","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-coronavirus"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/247750","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/39262"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=247750"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/247750\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":247751,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/247750\/revisions\/247751"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=247750"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=247750"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=247750"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}