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Thousands of protesters gathered in central London on Saturday to protest government COVID-19 mandates. The London demonstration, part of a global movement against severe coronavirus restrictions known as the Worldwide Rally For Freedom, saw a large crowd forming the city's Trafalgar Square to protest mask mandates, business restrictions, and vaccine passports, among other government restrictions. Among the attendees were conspiracy theorist David Icke, media personality Katie Hopkins, and Piers Corbyn, whose brother is former Labour Party Leader Jeremy Corbyn. Speakers rallied the crowd with comparisons to the Holocaust, arguing the government's restrictions were overly invasive. "Get their names [of doctors...

TRENTON, New Jersey -- New Jersey on Monday unveiled a phone app that lets people keep track of their COVID-19 vaccination card digitally. Democratic Gov. Phil Murphy announced the app called Docket during a news conference in Trenton. He said it's not meant to serve as a passport, and instead will serve as a backup in case people lose their paper vaccination cards.

The College of Charleston is amending is policies regarding Covid-19 vaccinations for students this summer and fall after parents voiced concerns to the school – and to the office of South Carolina attorney general Alan Wilson. Documents obtained by this news outlet reveal that Wilson’s office was inundated with inquiries regarding the school’s policies – which would have required unvaccinated students to subject themselves to monthly Covid-19 testing or face unspecified sanctions. Specifically, the school initially required any unvaccinated student who failed to fill out a university-mandated form attesting to their status “be placed in a monthly Covid-19 required testing...

The Biden administration has announced that the State Department will allow people to choose their gender identity on passports, even if it contradicts their biological sex. It's also looking to add an X marker for those who identify as nonbinary. Secretary of State Anthony Blinken announced Wednesday that the State Department will update “our procedures to allow applicants to self-select their gender as ‘M’ or ‘F’ and will no longer require medical certification if an applicant’s self-selected gender does not match the gender on their other citizenship or identity documents.” “The Department has begun moving towards adding a gender marker...

The state’s public health and technology departments said the new tool allows Californians access to their COVID-19 vaccination records from the state’s immunization registry... To access the information, Californians will enter into a state website their name, date of birth and email or phone associated with their vaccine records

Thousands of demonstrators marched through London’s streets on Saturday in protest of CCP (Chinese Communist Party) virus restrictions and “vaccine passports.” Demonstrators gathered at Parliament Square before moving through areas in central London including Oxford Street, Downing Street, Trafalgar Square, and Hyde Park. The protest was largely peaceful but police said that “a small minority” of protestors threw objects at officers and a group of demonstrators briefly occupied Westfield Shopping Centre. The “United For Freedom” March on Saturday was bigger than the previous protests against pandemic restrictions. Many have travelled from outside of London, with one group telling NTD News...

POINTS Airlines are already offering digital platforms that contain passenger health information. Several governments are opening borders if travelers can prove they’ve been vaccinated or tested negative for Covid-19 but it’s unclear if digital credentials will be required. Italy, Iceland, Greece and Spain now allow or are opening their borders to people who’ve been vaccinated or who recently tested negative for Covid-19. The European Union has agreed to open its borders to more vaccinated tourists, including from the U.S. As of Wednesday, almost half of the total U.S. population had received at least one Covid-19 vaccine dose. New Covid infections...

So I work for my local county (Upstate NY) and the new county administrator put out the edict as of tomorrow, if you are "fully vaccinated" (TM) then you don't have to wear a mask. All others do need to wear a mask on the job and social distance. Violators will be "disciplined" WWYD?

MSN has partnered with The Points Guy for our coverage of credit card products. MSN and The Points Guy may receive a commission from card issuers. Nearly 120 million Americans have been fully vaccinated against COVID-19, according to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). If you’re one of the millions who has been vaccinated, you’re probably thinking, “now what?” — especially if you’re itching to hit the road. Travelers may need to use vaccine passports to enter certain countries, take certain cruises and tours or be exempt from strict testing and quarantine requirements. They will be a...

So, today my DH got his 2nd Pfizer shot. He showed me he got a card for it. I took a close look, and it's not just a card from his employer that administered the shots. It's a federal-level card issued by Dept. of Health & Human Services (HHS).

Governor Jay Inslee says you could expect to see more places asking for your vaccination card for entry. The governor said Thursday that he will make announcements on places in Washington that will have vaccination requirements by mid-May, which could include some cruises, sporting events, performing arts and school graduations. .... Gov. Inslee says he is in full support of private companies and nonprofits that want to have vaccine requirements. He says more colleges and universities are likely to add them, and he expressed his support of those efforts as well.

House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) on Wednesday joined the growing chorus of Republican lawmakers opposed to a government-mandated “vaccine passport” to verify inoculation against the coronavirus. “Thanks to the safe vaccines from Operation Warp Speed, we will defeat the virus. But forcing Americans to carry a ‘vaccine passport’ to go about daily life is unacceptable in a free society,” McCarthy wrote on social media. “That’s something you’d expect in Communist China. Not in the United States of America.”

New York state has launched the nation’s first COVID-19 virtual passport for individuals to prove they received a vaccine or negative test result through the first “Excelsior Pass,” a move conservatives see as government overreach. The free, voluntary platform developed in partnership with IBM will use technology to confirm a recent negative PCR or antigen test result or proof of vaccination to gain entry into businesses or venues that want to participate. New York announced the Excelsior Pass, a vaccine passport app, in a March 26 press release from the office of Gov. Andrew Cuomo. The app will have a...

After it was confirmed that the Biden regime is working with major corporations to develop a country-wide vaccine passport, and after New York began the rollout of its own vaccine passport system, the FBI is warning people against fake vaccine passports or COVID-19 vaccination cards.“We’ve all seen friends posting their #COVID19 vaccination cards on social media,” wrote the Minneapolis branch of the FBI on social medial. “If you make or buy a fake one to misrepresent your vaccination status, you endanger other people and may also be breaking the law.”We've all seen friends posting their #COVID19 vaccination cards on social...

As vaccinations become more widely available for people in the United States and travel starts picking up, many people have started sharing their simple white vaccination cards on social media as prized new possessions. With some destinations, cruise lines and venues already requiring travelers to provide proof of vaccination against Covid-19, keeping that record is key. In New York, for example, proof of vaccination or a recent negative test will be required for entry into large venues or catered events when they are allowed to reopen at reduced capacity on April 2. Proof will be required at events with more...

With COVID-19 vaccination rates accelerating, governments around the world have begun to consider implementing a standardized credential or “vaccine passport” that would let people prove that they’ve been vaccinated. And the idea became more real when the Washington Post reported on Sunday that the Biden administration was working with companies to develop such a structure. Our nation’s primary push right now should be equitable vaccine distribution that gets as many people as possible vaccinated and reaching herd immunity. If we can do so, epidemiologists say, we’ll reach a point where COVID no longer has enough vulnerable hosts to circulate within...

Florida’s Agriculture and Consumer Services Commissioner, Nikki Fried (D), used an appearance on MSNBC to criticize Governor Ron DeSantis (R-FL) for his COVID response; Fried is rumored to be preparing to challenge DeSantis for his reelection bid in 2022. Fried accused DeSantis of “going off on a rampage” earlier this week, when he vowed to sign an executive order banning the use of vaccine passports. The Biden administration is planning to spearhead the implementation of vaccine passports to require individuals to show proof of vaccination in order to attend public events, travel, and reenter normal life. “It’s completely unacceptable for...

The desire by world leaders to create a single one world government is no longer secret. Taking advantage of the COVID-19 ‘crisis’, world leaders are openly calling for an end to nationalism and isolationism. 24 countries have come together to call for a global settlement like the one reached after the second world war to “protect countries” and build cross border co-operation. U.K. Prime Minister Boris Johnson, French President Emmanuel Macron, German Chancellor Angela Merkel, the head of the World Health Organisation (WHO), as well as 20 other world leaders, joined forces in penning a joint letter with the apparent...

Speaking to Steve Hilton, Wolf said "I am not overstating this, I can't say it forcefully enough, this is literally the end of human liberty in the West if this plan unfolds as planned." "Vaccine passports sounds like a fine thing if you don't understand what those platforms can do. I'm CEO of a tech company, I understand what this platform does. It's not about the vaccine, it's not about the virus: It's about your data. "And once this rolls out you don't have a choice about being part of the system. What people have to understand is that any...

Even as the nation begins to round the corner on the coronavirus pandemic, Joe Biden and his Democratic buddies don’t want what’s left of the crisis to go to waste. Enter his “vaccine passports.” Biden’s White House spokeswoman Jen Psaki says any vaccine passports will be outsourced to Big Tech, but Acting Medicare and Medicaid Services chief, Andy Slavitt, says, “This is going to hit all parts of society, and so naturally, the government is involved.” OUTSOURCING VACCINE PASSPORT TO BIG TECH The passport sounds like the continuation of ObamaCare, but hitting “all parts of society” to achieve compliance. As...