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Everything You Need to Know About “Vaccine Passports” (Will it be required to vote?)
Mother Jones ^ | 4/01/21 | Molly Schwartz

Posted on 04/02/2021 1:56:31 PM PDT by Libloather

**SNIP**

Vaccine passports are hardly a novel concept. Countries around the globe, to curb the spread of deadly diseases, require foreign visitors to present certificates of vaccination. Many of our own states have vaccination requirements for kids to attend school.

But a technology implementation that will allow people to present a QR code on their smartphone to prove they’ve been vaccinated is something new. The past two months have witnessed a proliferation of plans by states, countries, companies, and international consortia to develop digital vaccine passports. Though the building blocks for digital vaccine passes have been around for a while, such a technology has never been deployed on such a large scale, and with such a big potential impact on people’s lives. This is what has some people concerned. Equity-minded folks are concerned about stratifying society between vaccine haves and have-nots. Privacy activists are worried about increased surveillance. Republican politicians are crying government overreach.

Every vaccine passport technologist I’ve interviewed has asked me not to call them vaccine passports. Drummond Reed is the chief trust officer at Evernym—the technology underlying the International Air Transport Association (IATA)’s TravelPass initiative. He prefers “vaccine pass” because it’s more accurate. “Passports are inherently discriminatory,” says Reed. They have age and citizenship requirements, “and that’s not consistent with being able to get a vaccination or a COVID test.” Unlike vaccine passes, passports also require strong proof of identity and are issued only by governments.

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TOPICS: Business/Economy; Conspiracy; Health/Medicine; Local News
KEYWORDS: covid19; id; passports; vaccine; vaccinepassports; vote
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I need an ID to buy beer at Wal-Mart. No ID, no beer. Maybe this will also keep the dead from voting next time.

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1 posted on 04/02/2021 1:56:31 PM PDT by Libloather
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To: Libloather

Yeah to vote but hey...dont ask for a pic ID...


2 posted on 04/02/2021 1:59:10 PM PDT by Tennessee Nana
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To: Libloather

Are you a Sheep ?


3 posted on 04/02/2021 2:00:34 PM PDT by butlerweave
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To: Libloather

Dream on, Mother Jones. Your socialism is showing.

The vaccine passport scheme is dead on arrival.


4 posted on 04/02/2021 2:00:53 PM PDT by BrexitBen
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To: Libloather

Vaccination Passport, excellent voter ID....BRING IT!

( knowing that the treasonous Alinskyites will back off immediately)


5 posted on 04/02/2021 2:01:02 PM PDT by Candor7 ((Obama Fascism:http://www.americanthinker.com/2009/05/barack_obama_the_quintessentia_1.html) )
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6 posted on 04/02/2021 2:01:42 PM PDT by 4Liberty (Honest GOP can’t use legal options cause Dems use illegal ones (threats). The Robert Creamer Party! )
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To: BrexitBen

LOL. You beat me to it. Mother Jones as a “news” outlet?


7 posted on 04/02/2021 2:04:58 PM PDT by jeffc (I'm a Patriot, and the media are our enemy)
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To: Libloather

https://nypost-com.cdn.ampproject.org/c/s/nypost.com/2021/03/31/woman-suffers-agonizing-rash-after-oxford-astrazeneca-vaccine/amp/

Woman suffers agonizing rash after vaccine

“ “My skin was so sore and constantly hot. I have never felt pain like this – it has been a horrible experience,” said the hairdresser, the mother of a 13-year-old autistic boy named Aidan.

“I am a very healthy person and am not on any medication or anything like that. I am not even in a vulnerable category,” King told the news outlet. “I only got the vaccine as I am an unpaid carer for my son, who has autism and mobility issues.”

She added: “I haven’t even been able to care for him since I got the vaccine as I am in such pain.”


8 posted on 04/02/2021 2:06:10 PM PDT by aMorePerfectUnion (I'd rather be anecdotally alive than scientifically dead...)
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To: Libloather

So you’d need a passport AND an iPhone.


9 posted on 04/02/2021 2:08:45 PM PDT by fruser1
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To: jeffc

Meanwhile, with the passage of time, the “ vaccines “ continue to cause increasingly bad side effects.

Even Dr. Falsi is trying to backtrack.


10 posted on 04/02/2021 2:15:23 PM PDT by BrexitBen
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To: Libloather

If one is needed to have my vote legitimately counted I’ll consider it.


11 posted on 04/02/2021 2:26:12 PM PDT by JonPreston (Q: Never have so many, been so wrong, so often)
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To: Libloather

Mother Jones LOL!


12 posted on 04/02/2021 2:26:34 PM PDT by sauropod (Chance favors the prepared mind.)
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unless there’s massive counterfeit vax cards available to all RAT voters the RATS will NEVER give up the illegal/ghost votes for vax voter id


13 posted on 04/02/2021 2:27:22 PM PDT by Chode (there is no fall back position, there is no rally point, there is no LZ... we're on our own. P144:1)
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Hah! Good one. and.... quite true.

Note... see: Johnson and Johnson's only TRUE vaccine (preventative vaccine against infection) of covid— had 70 million doses destroyed by negligent subcontractor.

Personally— this is Pharma sabotage— Pfizer was fronted billions for “distribution” and has margins of profit in the 600% range for every dose “covered” or paid for by any entity.
Just one example. Note the Pfizer “vaccine” is to “obviate or ameliorate the symptoms of covid infection”— not prevent it.

A true vaccine would prevent infection by building antibodies/antiviral response to the current coronavirus of choice. Of course natural immunity can be derived from well known and publicized supplement preventing infection through the ACE2 lung cell surface receptors. Sorry, a side comment.

14 posted on 04/02/2021 2:33:47 PM PDT by John S Mosby (Sic Semper Tyrannis)
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To: Libloather

<>But a technology implementation that will allow people to present a QR code on their smartphone to prove they’ve been vaccinated is something new.<>

Where have I read at FR that this is the beginning of Chicom-style social justice points? Post thought-crimes at FR or FB or Twitter, watch the wrong movies, drive an internal combustion engined car, own guns . . . and get too far on the wrong side of the thought police can mean loss of employment, non-acceptance to college, banishment from air travel, etc.


15 posted on 04/02/2021 2:44:05 PM PDT by Jacquerie (ArticleVBlog.com)
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"Everything You Need to Know About “Vaccine Passports” (Will it be required to vote?)"

No need. Voting in future elections will be Kabuki theater. The pre-selected Demonicrat winners will be announced by the Demonicrat kakistocracy.

16 posted on 04/02/2021 2:45:21 PM PDT by Carl Vehse
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17 posted on 04/02/2021 2:50:33 PM PDT by Diogenesis (Tuitio Fidei et Obsequium Pauperum)
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To: Libloather

LOL!! That doesn’t effect me. I’ve already decided I won’t be voting ever again.


18 posted on 04/02/2021 3:12:27 PM PDT by mass55th ("Courage is being scared to death, but saddling up anyway." ~~ John Wayne )
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To: Libloather

Well .. welcome to first level communism.

You all voted for it, so you got it.

You gave the key to the village scrounger, now live with it.


19 posted on 04/02/2021 3:25:07 PM PDT by Terry L Smith
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To: Libloather

Radical insane mother jones says vaccine “passports” are coming and is defending them. That means they are coming for sure.


20 posted on 04/02/2021 3:35:29 PM PDT by I want the USA back (I fear my government many times more than I fear the chinese kungfu virus.)
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