Posted on 05/15/2021 4:09:32 AM PDT by Kaslin
For months, I've been reading about COVID passports, possibly for airplane and cruise travel, attendance at professional and college sports, and so on. At first, I thought, possibly this makes sense. After all, one infected person among a bunch of people could lead to severe repercussions.
Then, like a thunderbolt, a definitive answer emerged. It came from Bloomfield (CT) High School fellow classmate, Tony Evans, known for his astute political and common sense observations.
Clarity Happens
In one succinct passage, in social media shorthand, Tony uncorked a gem that everyone ought to heed. He said, “It’s a little too much. ‘Your papers please.’ The federal government collects too much info on all of us already. Should we carry HIV passports, a disease that has killed over 35 million people?”
“Did anyone suggest polio passports 60 years ago, or measles passports? They’ll be testing for drugs or alcohol use next. Or, we’ll have to pass some genetic tests to see if it’s appropriate to reproduce. The more power you give government, the more they abuse it. That’s the nature of the beast.”
Tony acknowledges the short and slippery slope between requesting people carry a health passport, and having the U.S. government, especially under Biden and his puppet masters, adopt Nazi-like posture, such as surrendering ‘your papers’ for everyday activities and travel of any kind.
After reading Tony's observation, it is clear that we can not go down the path of health-related passports: Consider how government programs are introduced repeatedly under the guise "it won't be any more than this." Then, ten years later, or decades later, the program morphs into something unimaginable: Medicare and Medicaid cost; Obamacare, Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac. All have far exceeded their original scope, budget, and mission.
Here, Steal My Identity
Receiving a unique Social Security number seemed beneficial to nearly everyone in 1935. And, the government insisted that social security numbers would never be used for ID purposes. Yet, well before the end of the 20th century, asking for one’s social security number became the primary way in which medical facilities, government agencies, and licensing groups verified your identity.
Today, Americans readily and unwittingly supply their Social Security number to any 'authoritative' entity which requests it. Nevermind that breach of one's Social Security number frequently leads to identity theft. The combined breaches of one's Social Security number and driver's license is a recipe for potential financial ruin.
For travel abroad, it might be useful to show verification of vaccination. Domestically, no. People who have not been vaccinated, or can't be, would experience restricted freedoms. Indeed, 'no-passport advocates' say it is fascist to diminish the rights of citizens in the name of questionable public safety.
Do As I Say, Not As I Do
Over the last 14 months, at least temporarily, we've already surrendered too many rights in the name of public safety. We ought not to relent so easily, especially for hard fought rights. In some large states--New York, New Jersey, Michigan, California come to mind--governors have exhibited blatant hypocrisy.
These governors disobeyed their own edicts levied on their residents. De facto, such governors demonstrated that their public safety protocols were not vital or even necessary. In cities where heavy marches, protests, and rioting occurred, few if any mayors lamented the lack of social distancing.
Meanwhile, we are daily becoming so removed from the concept of limited government, that the Founding Fathers might be turning over in their graves. As Ronald Reagan said, "Government is not the solution to our problem; government is the problem."
The Federal Government is a bungler. It does a few things well, usually after several attempts and a lot of tinkering. Quite a bit, it does not do well. Are you willing to surrender your second amendment rights and trust the government to protect you? Government cannot stop robo-callers from calling your cell phone all day long!
Pointless and Precarious
Needing a ‘passport’ to take part in everyday activities is wrong. Discriminating against individuals based on their health status is wrong. If vaccines work, a health passport is not needed. If vaccines don’t work, what is the point of them?
If anyone advocates health passports, immediately burst their bubble. Health passports are not a good idea, in the long run won’t protect people, and will do more harm than anybody can imagine. We don't need them and we shouldn't have them.
Your kids have always had to have their shots before they could go to school.
“Did anyone suggest polio passports 60 years ago, or measles passports? They’ll be testing for drugs or alcohol use next. Or, we’ll have to pass some genetic tests to see if it’s appropriate to reproduce. The more power you give government, the more they abuse it. That’s the nature of the beast.”
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For a lot of things, I remember having to carry the ?yellow? vaccination card/booklet I was issued in the Army back in the 1980s…
Yep. When I was in HS in Baltimore, there was a push to make sure all kids had been vaccinated for Measles, Mumps and Rubella and if you didn’t have a record of the MMR vaccine, you had to get one or would not be allowed back in school.
I had had measles in the 3rd grade when we lived in PA but my parents didn’t take me to the doctor’s, and I think had at one point later had gotten the MMR vax but we moved a lot when I was growing up and my parents didn’t keep or lost my medical records. So, I go the MMR vax again. They gave them to us in the school. No big deal and I was fine.
This is not even remotely the same thing.
This is not even remotely the same thing.
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Yeah it pretty much is. But modernized with a QR code. Originally suggested by Communist China.
Schools requiring shots regards established lethal-to-children diseases, requiring paperwork provided to one administrative entity on rare occasion.
Vaccine passports are an everywhere always “papers please”. Instant social pariah if you don’t produce your permission-to-exist app.
If this disease was so bad or the vaccine was so good everyone would be onboard. Instead you have governments, media, big religion, big business, hollywood, academia and sports teams all pushing a narrative only a small percentage of people are buying.
Report from another thread is that both Oregon and Louisiana are getting ready to fall inline with an international group and issue digital ‘passport’ IDs and vaccinations to be carried on cell phones
SO, a vaccine passport is okay with you? How about everyone has to have a flu shot every year and any other shot the government decides to include before anyone can go to an amusement park, sporting event, concert, play, etc?
BUT-—They NEVER had to carry a card with them to prove that.
While I still think there are some bots here promoting the lies of covid, vaccines, masks, etc., etc., I now believe the majority of government apologists are real FReepers who don't want to lose their accumulated wealth, or the power to keep creating and enjoying it.
"How difficult it is," said my Lord Jesus, "For a rich man to enter Heaven."
These anti-passport people have it ALL WRONG. Of course vaccine passports should be required. They need to contain photographs, and other identifying information, as well, in order to make sure the holder isn’t using someone else’s passport. Oh, and by the way, unvaccinated people shouldn’t be allowed to vote, either, and must show their passport to receive the ballot!
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After our second vaxx, my wife and I were advised to take a photo of the vaccination card so that we’d always have it with us.
Papiere bitte?
No buying food without showing that you have your papers. Or your chip, which is updated to show compliance on a regular basis.
Yesterday, DH got a call (they left a voice mail) from Humana where we have our Part D for Medicare. The message was that that they “strongly suggest” that he get a Covid vaccine. The tone was “you VILL” get the vaccine. I supposed I’ll be getting the same call soon.
And since it’s not open enrollment period I suppose we aren’t able to go to another provider now.
Anyhow, it appears that the health insurance providers now are going full thug on this subject.
No buying food without showing that you have your papers. Or your chip, which is updated to show compliance on a regular basis.
Sounds like what the history books used to call a proximate cause.
We’ve had international vaccination records for decades...mine is in my passport case, for when I travel. Yes, it now has the COVID-19 vaccine record in it as well.
I will not let myself or anyone I care about take a shot or be required to carry a passport just because nobody wants to call it an attack.
I also will not let anyone after a year of fear campaigning and lies use those lies to inject who knows what into me.
So what am I supposed to do? Be a second rate citizen?
True but you were ordered to get shots in the military. Easy fix to that problem. Resign or do not reenlist in the Army.
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