Want to fly, eat out, go to a game? You're gonna need a 'vaccine passport,' says Biden
The White House is working on a COVID-19 vaccine passport initiative that could be required for travel, sporting events and even eating out
“Papers, please.”
That line from every “B” movie about a totalitarian regime may soon be a permanent fixture in American society. Despite the appalling nature of such a question from police or other quasi-official uniformed personnel and American’s general opposition to such police-state tactics, it may soon become standard fare in a city near you.
Tuesday morning, ACV learned that the Biden cabal in Washington is working on finalizing a plan for a so-called “vaccine passport” that would be required, at the very least, for travel, and may become necessary to attend large sporting events and even for dining out.
The report comes as major U.S. airlines and nearly 30 travel and labor groups are pushing President Joe Biden to develop a standardized, government-backed credential to "accelerate safe economic activity and recovery."
"The U.S. must be a leader in this development," the groups wrote in a letter to COVID-19 Recovery Team Coordinator Jeff Zients on Monday. "The current diverse and fragmented digital health credentials used to implement different countries' air travel testing requirements risk causing confusion, reducing compliance, and increasing fraud."
Zients and the Department of Health and Human Services are leading the effort, according to sources who spoke with ACV. The White House declined to answer questions about the initiative and instead directed us to public statements made by Zients and other officials this month on the topic.
"Our role is to help ensure that any solutions in this area should be simple, free, open source, accessible to people both digitally and on paper, and designed from the start to protect people’s privacy," Zients said at a March 12 briefing.
The Vaccine Credential Initiative, a collaboration between tech and health care companies to develop technology that would store a secure copy of an individual’s vaccination record in a digital wallet on a person’s smartphone, is already in the works.
CNN reported earlier this month that several companies and technology groups have begun developing smartphone apps or systems for individuals to upload details of their Covid-19 tests and vaccinations, creating digital credentials that could be shown in order to enter concert venues, stadiums, movie theaters, offices, or even other countries.
The initiative has presented multiple challenges for the administration, including data privacy issues and healthcare equity. Additionally, at least 17 other initiatives are already underway.
Organizing a unified system for these types of credentials represent a hugely complicated undertaking and the stakes are high: An inconsistent array of options would be confusing and could hurt public health efforts, officials said in a March 2nd meeting of the Federal Health IT Coordinating Council.
Creating a vaccine passport would extend the miseries of COVID well into a time when the vaccine has largely obviated them. It will create a massive constituency — made of rent-seeking tech companies, and of hypochondriacs — for extending that system’s reach. (Photo:
“A chaotic and ineffective vaccine credential approach,” said a slide obtained by ACV said, “could hamper our pandemic response by undercutting health safety measures, slowing economic recovery, and undermining public trust and confidence,.”
Government officials, especially within the Biden cabal, seem more concerned about logistics than about potential violations of the rights and freedoms of the American people. At last count, 17 groups are already working on their own versions of a “passport,” including a tech company coalition called the Vaccination Credential Initiative (VCI), the World Health Organization, and the International Air Transport Association.
New York state already started using a digital pass developed by IBM. It can show vaccination status or COVID-19 test results, and venues like Madison Square Garden have already announced that they’ll use it as a requirement for admission.
There has been no public discussion of the impact on First, Fourth, Sixth and Fourteenth Amendment rights of American citizens. Somehow those issues seem to have escaped the Biden cabal, tech companies and the Fascist Left media gleefully endorsing these methods as the primary way to reopen America.
Federal officials and groups working with vaccine credentials are grappling with various technical, ethical, and equity issues as the programs move forward. Using vaccination as a ticket to various activities is fraught with difficulty. Even now, vaccines aren’t easily available to everyone, being more accessible to elderly communities who most likely are not widely interested in any of the events the passport is allegedly designed to facilitate.
Questions arise as to just how robust will credential programs be regarding privacy protections and how resistant to hacks or forgery they might be. Confidence is not high among skeptics, as people are already forging paper vaccination cards distributed at vaccination sites, paying as much as $200 for the fakes.
The Biden administration says it will have more information available on its approach to overseeing vaccine credentials soon. Almost 30% of the U.S. population has at least one dose of a CCP virus vaccine. There is no reason for the Biden cabal to rush to a “vaccination passport” at a time when the CCP virus is in decline across all population dynamics.
Of course, the Fascist Left media disagrees, an official telling The Washington Post it’s “important to move deliberately on this project. This has a high likelihood of being either built wrong, used wrong or a bureaucratic mess,” the official said.
We agree wholeheartedly, which is precisely why the “vaccination passport” needs to be dropped like the incompetent idiots developing need to be pushed head-first out the door of the White House.