Austrians expressed shock and anger this week over the suicide of doctor who had been the target of a torrent of abuse and threats from anti-vaccination protesters.
The 36-year-old doctor was found dead at her practice on July 29.
She had long been the target of death threats because of her criticism of the widespread anti-lockdown protests of 2021.
She described how she had "invested more than 100,000 euros" ($102,000) in measures to ensure her patients' safety and was on the brink of bankruptcy.
Then, at the end of June, Kellermayr announced on her professional website that she would not be seeing patients until further notice.
The police, who had previously suggested Kellermayr was exploiting the situation for attention, insist they did everything to protect her.
The local prosecutor's office also rejected suggestions it could have done more.
But on some Telegram groups, the hateful messages continue.
"Some people are celebrating her death; others believe the vaccine killed her," said Ingrid Brodnig, a journalist and author who investigates online disinformation.
https://www.rawstory.com/austria-in-shoc...vax-abuse/
The 36-year-old doctor was found dead at her practice on July 29.
She had long been the target of death threats because of her criticism of the widespread anti-lockdown protests of 2021.
She described how she had "invested more than 100,000 euros" ($102,000) in measures to ensure her patients' safety and was on the brink of bankruptcy.
Then, at the end of June, Kellermayr announced on her professional website that she would not be seeing patients until further notice.
The police, who had previously suggested Kellermayr was exploiting the situation for attention, insist they did everything to protect her.
The local prosecutor's office also rejected suggestions it could have done more.
But on some Telegram groups, the hateful messages continue.
"Some people are celebrating her death; others believe the vaccine killed her," said Ingrid Brodnig, a journalist and author who investigates online disinformation.
https://www.rawstory.com/austria-in-shoc...vax-abuse/
teachings of the Bible are so muddled and self-contradictory that it was possible for Christians to happily burn heretics alive for five long centuries. It was even possible for the most venerated patriarchs of the Church, like St. Augustine and St. Thomas Aquinas, to conclude that heretics should be tortured (Augustine) or killed outright (Aquinas). Martin Luther and John Calvin advocated the wholesale murder of heretics, apostates, Jews, and witches. - Sam Harris, "Letter To A Christian Nation"
