Posted on 03/03/2021 12:08:45 PM PST by lowbridge
Democratic New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo on Tuesday announced a new program that will require New Yorkers to show a COVID-19 “passport” to enter sports arenas, theaters, and other businesses.
The plan establishes an “Excelsior Pass” which will use secure technology to prove that a state resident has been vaccinated against COVID-19 or has had a recent negative test. Sites included in the rollout plan include Madison Square Garden and the Barclays Center, both sports and entertainment venues.
“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’s ‘Wallet App,'” according to a press release on the governor’s webpage. “Each pass will have a secure QR code, which venues will scan using a companion app to confirm someone’s COVID health status.”
The program is already underway as the pass was tested at Tuesday night’s New York Rangers hockey game at Madison Square Garden (MSG), the New York Post reported.
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From the horse’s mouth...
Check out the people and companies involved.
Let the lawsuits commence!
How is this possibly Constitutional? What if you already had COVID and don’t need the vaccine, or you are allergic to vaccines?
What about mail in voting? how do the counters know the mail in votes weren’t laced with the china flu??? THATS RACIST!!
Welcome to NAZI Germany-—look into their history. This is only the beginning! Time to seriously fight back!
Bwahahahahahaha!!!!!!
Question: What will these badges cost on the black market?
Welcome to NAZI Germany-—look into their history. This is only the beginning! Time to seriously fight back!
Welcome to NAZI Germany-—look into their history. This is only the beginning! Time to seriously fight back!
HIPAA is something the plebes must obey.
Our rulers make up their own rules...
EinNYC wrote: “How is this possibly Constitutional? What if you already had COVID and don’t need the vaccine, or you are allergic to vaccines?”
States have the legal and constitutional authority to require that the people who live in that state be vaccinated, or to introduce a vaccine mandate.
The authority for the state being able to compel vaccination—the affirmation of that authority—goes all the way back to a U.S. Supreme Court case in 1905 called Jacobson v. Massachusetts. That case arose in the midst of an outbreak of smallpox in Cambridge, Massachusetts, in 1902. Cambridge introduced an ordinance requiring all adults be vaccinated or revaccinated against smallpox. If they didn’t [get vaccinated], they would have to pay a fine of $5.
Jacobson was a resident of Cambridge who, for a number of reasons, objected to the vaccination mandate and brought a lawsuit against Massachusetts for the mandate. He raised a number of arguments, including one that his constitutionally protected liberty interests were being infringed by this mandate.
In that case, the Supreme Court—and —said that states have under their police powers, which is under the Constitution, the authority to enact reasonable regulations as necessary to protect public health, public safety, and the common good. Vaccination mandates constitute exactly that kind of permissible state action to protect the public’s health. Even though it’s 115 years old, this continues to be the benchmark case on the state’s power to mandate vaccination.
In response to the argument about this individual liberty interest, the court said that sometimes individual interests might have to yield to state laws that endeavour to protect the health of everybody—the “common good.” The court said: “The rights of the individual may at times, under the pressure of great dangers, be subjected to such restraint to be enforced by reasonable regulations as the safety of the general public may demand.”
So, yes: Once COVID vaccines are available, states could elect to require that people who live within that state be vaccinated.
Just another reason not to go to New York.
Why do New Yorkers put up with this wannabe tyrant?
That doesn’t make a whole lot of sense.
They want people who have been vaccinated to wear masks to
help stop the disease.
That reveals they don’t think they are immune to spreading
the disease, so why does having a vaccination card make you
any different than anyone else?
This is just punitive.
Those who haven’t chose to get vaccinated are to be punished.
Even if you have a demonstrated allergic reaction to vaccines? And could you sue if a loved one died from getting the vaccine?
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Guess what. More business failures. Most, even if they did get a vaccination, won’t carry the papers.
Shouldn't have to have either one, given that the "tests" produce 94% false positives (and that is by the CDC's own admission, so don't tell me I'm spreading misinformation).
Sounds like a great opportunity for document sellers.
Then I guess it’s a plus that I never utilize any of them to begin with.
Ok. No Madison square gardens for me. What a shame.
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