Posted on 03/29/2021 10:07:42 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
New Yorkers will be required to show “vaccine passports” — proof that they have received the COVID-19 vaccine — in order to re-enter society.
The New York Post reported that the “Excelsior Pass” would officially launch on April 2, following an announcement from Gov. Andrew Cuomo (D-NY) on Friday.
“Similar to a mobile airline boarding pass, individuals will be able to either print out their pass or store it on their smartphones using the Excelsior Pass Wallet app,” said a press release about the program. “Each Pass will have a secure QR code, which participating businesses and venues can scan using a companion app to verify proof of COVID-19 negative test results or proof of vaccination. An individual’s data is kept secure and confidential at all times.”
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The app won’t show any health information when scanned — it’ll only show a green checkmark if the person has been vaccinated or tested negatively or a red “x” if they haven’t.
Major venues, such as Madison Square Garden and the Times Union Center in Albany, will begin using the app next week and on April 2, Excelsior Pass will expand to “smaller arts, entertainment and event venues,” Cuomo’s office said.
The app, which launched Friday, already works to prove vaccination status or negative test results and can be used to gain access to wedding receptions, which now require negative tests from attendees, and other events above the social gathering limit.
In a statement, Cuomo said: “New Yorkers have proven they can follow public health guidance to beat back COVID, and the innovative Excelsior Pass is another tool in our new toolbox to fight the virus while allowing more sectors of the economy to reopen safely and keeping personal information secure.”
“The question of ‘public health or the economy’ has always been a false choice — the answer must be both. As more New Yorkers get vaccinated each day and as key public health metrics continue to regularly reach their lowest rates in months, the first-in-the-nation Excelsior Pass heralds the next step in our thoughtful, science-based reopening,” he added.
As The Daily Wire’s Joe Curl previously reported, the program was announced earlier this month and was tested at a New York Rangers game at Madison Square Garden on March 2.
At the time, Cuomo said, “We’re doing everything we can to vaccinate as many New Yorkers as possible, as quickly as possible, while keeping the infection rate down and re-energizing our economy in a safe, smart way.”
“As we begin reopening the valves on different sectors of our economy, we are putting guidelines in place to ensure individuals attending events involving larger gatherings have tested negative for COVID or have been vaccinated to avoid an outbreak of the virus. The Excelsior Pass will play a critical role in getting information to venues and sites in a secure and streamlined way, allowing us to fast-track the reopening of these businesses and getting us one step closer to reaching a new normal,” he continued.
Cuomo also stressed that the vaccine passes would protect users’ privacy.
“Robust privacy protections are woven throughout the digital health pass solution, giving individuals a secure, verifiable and trusted way to maintain control of their personal health information using an encrypted digital smartphone wallet or printed credential. Each participant will be able to determine if they would like to use it — and if so, what passes they wish to use for which purpose — all without sharing their underlying personal data. User data is always kept completely confidential, and participation is voluntary. The QR code only informs the venue if a pass is valid or invalid,” said a press release for the program.
What if you already got Codvid?
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Not good enough.....
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QFKzaXW8_Ek
Interesting how Liberals can require all people to have these passports, but it is impossible and too much of a burden to require all their residence to have voter IDs.
Lol! Good observation.
That said, Biden ... or whatever is behind that empty husk. ...is “considering” a national vaccine passport.
Write to your Congress critters and senators now.
Damn.
I predicted the mark of the beast would come out of Rome (Vatican).
Oh well, I still have a pretty good track record.
5.56mm
Great, will they be having Voter ID too?
Can’t have one without the other.
If not, then they can get stuffed.
Anyway, this leads to all kinds of interesting questions. Can they stop me at the border if I don’t have one? Can they detain me? What about illegal aliens?
Old joke: New York was the only major American city controlled by the enemy from October 1776 until the end of the American Revolution. And thus it has remained ever since.
Interesting how Liberals can require all people to have these passports, but it is impossible and too much of a burden to require all their residence to have voter IDs.
They have no idea what a corner they just backed themselves into.
Yeah, so where are all the fearbros here who for the past year have been saying, “Its not that much to ask you to wear a mask”? Never occurred to any of those dopes that this is where it was going. Enjoy your experimental “vaccine”, morons.
Can they stop me at the border if I don’t have one? Can they detain me? What about illegal aliens?
You will not be able to fly across the border without the permit.
Then, they will make sure that you can’t ride a bus, train or mule across the border and back in without the passport.
Actually, my wife and I had planned on going to the Westminster Kennel Club show in New York in June. They are holding it this year up in Westchester County about 40 miles north of the city right on the Hudson River. They usually hold it at Madison Square Garden. It is the first time they moved the show in a hundred plus years.
“Excelsior Pass”
WOW. Just f’n wow.
I thought the 10th Amendment prevented states from interfering with interstate commerce.
If you choose to be part of a worldwide clinical trial, and get an experimental vaccine, so that you can go to a baseball game or theater, I wish you luck.
It’s exactly how they mandate vaccines and testing in other countries. For example my sister lives in Europe. They were mandated to get the vaccine otherwise they would not be paid. Now after she has gotten the vaccine she STILL has to be tested every single Saturday. Don’t get a test? No pay. SHEEP
Well, whatever they come up with, illegal aliens will be exempt from any such requirements. Those requirements will only apply to us citizens.
You mean she doesn’t get paid from her job, a paying job, unless she has ongoing covid testing?
If they can’t stop illegal aliens with no vaccinations, no point in doing it. Won’t comply.
If we are to have a vaccination passport, there ican be no reasonable objection to a voter ID.
“I suspect these vaccine passports would violate HIPAA, but rule of law is a thing of the past.”
Plenty of holes already exist in that law. Don’t look for any help there.
I cannot believe that this will pass court scrutiny.
It’s kinda funny. I’ve driven all over the US and that is one place I have no interest in going.
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I’ve been to N.Y. State but not N.Y.C. Beautiful state overall but like other blue states, dominated by a big city or cities.
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