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Apparently anti-vaxxers have driven an Austrian doctor to suicide. As usual, the cops (even there) backed the right wing crazies because they probably didn't want those night meetings to get too uncomfortable.

Wow didn't think this would be reported outside of my homecountry, but it is truly tragical. Dr. Kellermayr was a GP in rural Austria who voluntered to visit Covidpatients at home when no one else in our country had the guts to do so, because she didn't have a family and thought to herself who if not me should do this. After the first vaccines came out she was made sure everyone in her communitiy would get vaxxed.

Everything went to shit after a protest of anti-vaxxers in front of a hospital, which she condemned on twitter, saying the protesters blocked the entrance to the emergency room for the ambulances. Austrian police answered that this wasn't true because they arranged for a different entry point after talking to the protesters beforehand. The tweet and the reply of the police went viral in anti-vaxx telegram forums and it wasn't long until she received death threats via E-Mail. The Mails were very disturbingly written and by many different people, explaining in detail how they would visit her practice as a patient and would then proceed to torture her and her colleagues allowing them only a slow and painful death.

She reached out to the austrian police which told her that they couldn't locate the sender because the messages came from the mysterious darknet! One police-official even said in the morning news that he thinks she shouldn't have been so outspoken regarding the vaccinations and she only craves publicty for personal gains. 

Also the austrian medicine society didn't really help out they only said that if she wants help she needs to fill out a request and that they also think she should have kept a low profile.

She hired a private security firm which cost her a lot of money, so she had to close her practice a month ago. One official of the austrian medical society said that it's a nice practice next to a lake, and they won't have problems finding someone else to do her job.

Last friday she committed suicide and i don't want to speculate why. All I know is that every decent person in austria who helped to get over this pandemic is fucking furious towards the austrian police and the medical society, for not really helping out. It is a terrible sign to everyone who still believes in the society. Her death is also celebrated in many anti-vaxxer telegram forums.

As an austrian doctor what happened leds me to seriously doubt my countries officials and it makes destroying my health in the hospital everyday even harder.

Small comfort to realize that this doesn't just happen in the US, that the cops are right wing adjacent just about everywhere. Take, for example, this piece on cops who arrested medical students while leaving the anti-vaxxers alone:

Na, each country has its own lunatics. Both everywhere and regionalized clusters.

As a German it's too easy to shit on Saxony. But holy shit, they set the bar so low. There is a reason r/MannausSachsen is the German r/Floridaman.

Last winter, there was an aggressive protest of right-wing/neo-Nazi COVID lunatics in Dresden in front of the hospital. Local med students organized a counter-protest wearing white coats, keeping the entrances open.

Police appeared and fined and banned..the med students. Because of their white coats. Citing a law forbidding uniformed protests to surpress Weimar Republic style paramilitary organizations.

Can't make this shit up.

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