Posted on 04/01/2021 8:44:13 AM PDT by Kaslin
As we continue to debate the wisdom or fairness of establishing a system of immunity passports allowing the vaccinated to return to normal life while the rest are left behind, one curious aspect of these proposed systems is coming to light. The New York Post editorial board points us to a few observations from Dominic Green at Spectator USA. One thing we know about the rollout of COVID vaccinations across the country is that white people are being vaccinated at significantly higher per capita rates than Blacks or Hispanics. Whether this is a result of greater rates of vaccine hesitancy among minorities or uneven distribution of the vials as they become available is a matter you are free to debate. But the underlying numbers haven’t changed. Black people in particular are being vaccinated more slowly than whites. That means that significantly fewer Black people will be qualified to receive immunity passports and will be denied access to many public events as society continues to reopen. So doesn’t that mean that vaccine passports are… racist?
At Spectator USA, Dominic Green takes aim at the drive to establish “vaccine passports” to, for example, “exclude the unvaccinated from attending sporting events.” Crucially, “the unvaccinated are disproportionately poor and non-white. So they would suffer most from vaccine-based exclusions. In functional terms, mandatory vaccination passports would be the Jim Eagle of class and race discrimination.” An administration obsessed with things like minority voting rights “is floating a proposal to bureaucratically disenfranchise black people. This is incoherent, knee-jerk control-freakery.” It leaves you “feeling that we’re governed by fools.”
If that sounds like buffoonery to you, you’ve probably been paying attention to everything else that the radical left has been trying to lecture us about for years. But that’s how this game is played in the 21st century, right? If something impacts communities of color in a statistically greater fashion than white communities, then it has to be racist by definition. We’ve been assured of this repeatedly. So turning away larger numbers of Black fans wishing to attend the next Knicks game in New York City because they can’t qualify for an Excelsior Pass is an example of the state government enacting racist policies. Don’t try to argue about this, Democrats. What’s good for the goose is good for the gander.
This is the same as saying the war on drugs is racist because arrests take place disproportionately in communities of color. You’ve heard people saying the same thing about traffic tickets. But now we’re talking about something that actually matters. The federal government is working on taking immunity passports to the national level after they’ve already been put in place in New York State. And if you don’t have one, you are going to be out of luck when it comes to participating in many nonessential activities or being able to get on a plane or any form of public transportation.
Even if you manage to get on a plane, if your destination is Sin City, you may find yourself out in the cold when you arrive. Yes, immunity passports are already being set up in Las Vegas.
Health service company Reviv Global has launched its Heliix Health Passport in Las Vegas. The mobile app uses an encrypted code to show the results of a recent COVID-19 test, and could be implemented at hospitality venues such as restaurants, conventions, nightclubs and shows.Julia Miles, Reviv’s commercial operations director, said the company is in “extended talks” with a number of major Las Vegas hotel-casino operators. So far, conversations have focused largely around using the technology to make sure resort or convention guests have recently tested negative for COVID-19 at one of Reviv’s local testing centers.
The Reviv system that’s taking shape in Vegas is at least slightly better than some of the others. If you haven’t been vaccinated you can go to one of their centers and pay to have a COVID test done. If you produce a negative result, you can rent an immunity passport for a couple of days. If you’re staying longer, you’ll need to go back and be retested periodically. That’s a major pain in the neck, but it’s better than being locked out entirely. Of course, we would expect Las Vegas to take a more reasonable approach because it’s one of the most capitalist cities in the world. They don’t want to shut out large numbers of people who are waiting to enter the casinos and lose all of their money.
In any event, this is where things stand today. If our nation’s elected officials want to try to make this a permanent part of “the new normal,” we need to be storming the gates (figuratively) during the next election cycle. This is not freedom. This is not American. This is simply tyranny.
There has to be a HIPAA violation in there somewhere as well...
It means exactly what I mean it to say, nothing more or less.
Each day I try to believe three impossible things before breakfast.
Can you say “disparate impact lawsuit” children? I knew that you could!
“How hard is it to forge vaccine cards.”
They’re already for sale on the dark web. Just look at the picture of the CDC issued card on the top of the thread. I could make my own in 15 minutes on Photoshop. Don’t even need a color printer.
The hardest part is believably faking the vaccine details that the doctor/nurse is supposed to fill in with pen, but just make it in illegible handwriting nobody can read, and it will look like everything else a doctor writes anyway.
The mark of the beast draws nigh.
Or yellow stars of David if you don’t comply with the state’s group think.
I’ll be dead before it happens...or during...
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Ironic that the liberals who are pushing for everyone to have a vaccine passport, say a photo ID to vote is racist.
When viewed as a first step toward total restricted travel within and from the US based on a national set of “papers,” , it makes sense. And there will be no acknowledgement of the hypocrisy behind demanding that every citizen - including minorities - will get one, while Voter ID’s will continue to be denigrated as too complicated for stupid minorities to obtain.
Its just a printed card, easily counterfeited. So, they will have to revise this entire scam after it is generally accepted, and it is too late to object. Remember, your Social Security Card was not supposed to be used as identification. Is it now?
What stops a bad faith government from morphing this monstrosity into a “license” rather than just a receipt for a vaccination? Nothing stops it. The implications are not hidden. You will need this “license” to do anything: travel, buy food, anything involving civil or governmental authority, etc, etc, etc.
There will be a magnetic strip on this card, with a number encoded on it. You will become that number. And if your number is pulled by the government, you are SOL. I would say “fight the power!” but that is rather presumptive. Who’s power, and why? Talk to me tomorrow.
Hehehe, I love irony. WHO’s power, indeed~!
SSDD
Most can't bother to eat healthy. You really expect them to shell out their own money to buy vit D?
No, it's not. I'm not going anywhere that demands this BS. And I'm so po'd, it won't be a hardship.
If they want to be healthy then yes. I see your point, and I know you can’t help anyone that doesn’t want it or refuses to help themselves.
"Even if you manage to get on a plane, if your destination is Sin City, you may find yourself out in the cold when you arrive. Yes, immunity passports are already being set up in Las Vegas.Health service company Reviv Global has launched its Heliix Health Passport in Las Vegas. The mobile app uses an encrypted code to show the results of a recent COVID-19 test, and could be implemented at hospitality venues such as restaurants, conventions, nightclubs and shows.
Julia Miles, Reviv’s commercial operations director, said the company is in “extended talks” with a number of major Las Vegas hotel-casino operators. So far, conversations have focused largely around using the technology to make sure resort or convention guests have recently tested negative for COVID-19 at one of Reviv’s local testing centers.
The Reviv system that’s taking shape in Vegas is at least slightly better than some of the others. If you haven’t been vaccinated you can go to one of their centers and pay to have a COVID test done. If you produce a negative result, you can rent an immunity passport for a couple of days. If you’re staying longer, you’ll need to go back and be retested periodically. That’s a major pain in the neck, but it’s better than being locked out entirely. Of course, we would expect Las Vegas to take a more reasonable approach because it’s one of the most capitalist cities in the world. They don’t want to shut out large numbers of people who are waiting to enter the casinos and lose all of their money.
In any event, this is where things stand today."
This is such unlimited express train horseshit.
Let's just skip the homeys and their entourage checking in at Luxor without so much as an id for a moment...
Vegas has advanced from 20 to 30% foreign visitors using the last valid year 2019 as baseline.
Many, MANY of these people are from the 'new wealth' countries in Oceania that do not have a firm national vaccination record system (har har har, to say the least) and might have more than one objection to being forced-funneled to some half-azz startup to have their brain swabbed.
Most come to Vegas on a plane ticket and maybe a lower-deck reservation on the Strip or downtown.
You can see the hilarious arguments from here! "No, NO, I no go to test site, I have comp room! You get fucked! I go down the street!"
These nasty skels pimping this garbage in the MSM should be forced to be present between the hotel staff and Wi Too Lo and break up the fight lol.
So let's go back to the Luxor and same scenario --
"Yo, WorldStarHipHop, what up, we live streemin chickin at de Luxor dayum! Good to be back, you know whut I mean!"
"Sir, sir, do you have proof of vaccination sir?"
"Naw I ain't got no damn vaccination dayum I got 10 large ready and I want my suite NOW."
"Sir, sir, you have to go to this address and get swab..."
"I AIN'T GETTIN NO SWAB #!T@&%! GIVE ME MY GODDAMN ROOM CARD YOU HO."
Bwahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa.....
Vitamin D. The Racist Vitamin.
I don’t give a crap about sporting events anyway. I am not paying to watch of overpaid thugs in the NBA bounce a basketball and shoot 35 foot jump shots or dunk and no defense. I could give a damn less about the NBA, NFL, MLB or NHL. I barely watch any sports anymore. I got sick of the crap of overpaid, loud mouthed, dope using and dealing pre-madonna ball players years ago. And this from a guy that played sports from age 9 through retirement from the Army at age 42, called football, baseball, softball, soccer, basketball, sports at high school, Jr. College and military level sports. Ref’ed for over 25 years. Called thousands of games, 7 days a week for years in the Army and in local associations in the States. Weekends did softball tournaments where I would call 6 or 7 games a day. Wear you out. I watched everything on TV. I was there the very first night Sportscenter came on TV on ESPN. Watched for decades. Now, I will not click on their stinking crappy channels. I got sick of the crap. The Keith Oberman’s of the world and ESPN’s racist crap against whites and southerners too boot!!! ESPN can go to hell. Screw overpaid loud mouth Leebronnie obamma’s crappy pukes. To hell with them.
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