Romania offering free vaccinations and torture chamber tours at Dracula's castle
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In a clear acknowledgement that it needs to right the wrong of centuries spent luring unsuspecting travelers into the domain of a bloodsucking monster, a Romanian town is now offering free COVID vaccines to visitors of the not-at-all-ominous Bran Castle.
Bran, which lays pretty dubious claim to being the site of historic Transylvania’s “real” Dracula’s castle, is currently hosting the medical drive as part of a national effort to boost vaccination rates. The BBC reports that “almost half of Romanians say they are not inclined to get the jab—one of the highest hesitancy levels in Europe.” In a real deal with the devil, the government has worked out an arrangement with the definitely existing Dracula himself to give no-appointment vaccinations as well as “free entry to the castle’s exhibit of 52 medieval torture instruments” every weekend this month.
The Guardian adds the welcome detail that “those who receive the vaccine” are also given “a certificate hailing their ‘boldness and responsibility’ [that promises] they will be welcome at the castle ‘for the coming 100 years.’” Other vaccination drives are taking place across the country at locations such as Bucharest’s National Library. We’re sure the National Library is a fantastic place to visit, but it sadly pales in comparison to being able to boast that your vaccine was administered in a place that also gives free medieval torture exhibition passes along with it.
In the past, Bran Castle has also provided visitors with Easter egg hunts, which really makes us think that the people who harbored the world’s most notorious vampire in their town are working overtime to try to make up for past crimes. To this, we say thank you, but also remind Bran that their ancestors were merely thralls to a demonic creature at the time and they really don’t need to keep beating themselves up over it.
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You don’t need an age-old castle.
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dracula just trying to keep his food source healthy.
And honestly, good for him.
I’ve been there (pre-pandemic). Yes, the connection to Dracula is dubious, and the place is surrounded with a lot of tacky tourist-trap nonsense like at Niagara Falls and the Wisconsin Dells, but you can hardly blame them for doing it — it’s in a not very prosperous area of Romania, itself hardly a prosperous country. Good to see that it can be used to help Romanians (via the vaccine effort) besides the obvious normal benefit of separating foreign tourists from their cash.
All I got with my vaccine (apart from near-immunity to Covid) was a damn sticker.
You got a sticker!?Fancy.
I wonder if the hesitancy has anything to do with lack of trust in the healthcare system as fallout from everything documented in the movie “Collective.”
According to my Romanian friend, people aren’t getting the vaccine because they are told they can’t drink for a week.
Get one vaccination, get an hour on the rack FREE!