Tens of thousands of people took to the streets across Europe over the weekend to demonstrate against their respective governments’ recent decisions to reimplement COVID-19 rules and mandates following reported increases in cases. Thousands of peaceful protesters demonstrated in central Brussels, Belgium, on Sunday for the third time against reinforced COVID-19 restrictions that were imposed by the government. The marchers—some with placards reading “free zone,” “I’ve had my fair dose,” and “enough is enough”—came to protest the government’s recent mandates. The Belgian protest comes one day after similar protests in other capitals including Paris and London. Nations across Europe moved to reimpose tougher measures to stem a new wave of COVID-19 infections spurred by the highly transmissible Omicron variant, with the Netherlands leading the way by imposing a nationwide lockdown. Since the Omicron variant was named late last month, few deaths have been reported, while authorities in South Africa said …