Coronavirus: Thread

grarpamp grarpamp at gmail.com
Mon May 3 20:58:02 PDT 2021


> Wearing a mask is always recommended, even if you are already vaccinated.

And just who is going to enforce all that on these
10k's of people all screaming within 1 foot of each other...

An entire planet locked under ridiculous mind-control and slavery.
Don't forget to watch the Fauci (TM) halftime propaganda show,
brought to you by Davos Bilderburg WEF and friends.


Wake the fuck up. Fight back.

https://www.aier.org/article/vaccine-passports-vs-freedom-itself/



https://www.reuters.com/world/the-great-reboot/airport-security-app-clear-looks-score-with-us-vaccine-passport-2021-05-03/

Vaccine Passports Are Coming To Sports Venues

Vaccine passports (or passes or certificates) are being deployed at
over 60 US stadiums and other venues this summer to get the economy
"back to normal," according to Reuters.

Major League Baseball's San Francisco Giants and New York Mets are
some of the first teams demanding fans present proof of vaccination or
a recent negative test via an app called Clear to verify their
COVID-19 status. The teams will accept medical paperwork as proof, but
they encourage all sports fans to download the Clear app for
convenience.

Clear already streamlines the process of traveling through airports by
securing all travel documents into an app. It allows travelers to
expedite their way through security. Now Clear is being applied
outside airports to over 60 US stadiums and other venues.

"Clear powers fast, touchless experiences that keep you moving at
airports, sports stadiums, and other venues nationwide. No crowds, no
waiting, keep moving," the company said on its website.

Besides MLB stadiums, Clear also partnered with NBA teams "to help get
fans back to the game by verifying health insights for a safer and
touchless entry at select venues for the 2020 - 2021 season," the
company said.

A recent Rasmussen poll revealed that almost half of Americans support
the introduction of health passports to reopen the economy.

As the use of vaccine passports snowballs from airports to sporting
venues, concerns about the app's potential reach and implications are
growing.

Privacy group Electronic Frontier Foundation fears Clear will hold
sensitive medical data of users and transform it into consumer
trackers. Clear said users control their health records.

As of April, Clear has about 142k downloads.

Clear users upload a driver's license and take a selfie, which the
system matches them before connecting to COVID-19 test results from
hundreds of labs.

Some sporting venues also require additional symptom questionnaires
that can be quickly filled out on Clear or an automated temperature
check at a Clear kiosk. Once they pass, users get a "green" pass with
their headshot and a QR code that venue staff scan at entrances.

Health passports have already migrated from airports to sporting
venues within a year - we wonder what is next?

Will passports be needed at shopping malls, gyms, schools, government
buildings, supermarkets, and or any other mass gathering event or
indoor area?

Also, how does a vaccine passport help if the vaccine is impotent in
protecting an individual from infection and its furtherance through
transmission, particularly when there are increasing mutant forms of
the virus?

Already, several US states have shown a resolve against the premise of
the vaccine passports. They include Texas, Tennessee, Florida,
Mississippi at the moment. We're assuming more will follow.

These health passports are nothing more than creeping totalitarianism
and dictatorship by the government that wants to control and track
everything we do.














Vaccine Passports Versus Freedom Itself

https://www.aier.org/article/vaccine-passports-vs-freedom-itself/

To reject the creeping totalitarianism and dictatorship is the
lifeblood of all freedom-loving individuals across the world. Those
under despotic control yearn for freedom. We need only to look at the
failing state of Hong Kong, where once freedom reigned and commerce
enjoyed an unprecedented expansion of wealth and enviable quality of
life, and now finds its democratic pursuits thwarted while it cowers
under the dictates of Chinese Communism.

CS Lewis said, “Of all tyrannies, a tyranny sincerely exercised for
the good of its victims may be the most oppressive. It would be better
to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies.”

And it is with that in mind that we find ourselves both stunned and
aghast concerning the fact that our Governments are even considering
the issuance of what have become known as Covid-19 ‘vaccine
passports.’ The very idea is anathema to our democratic principles and
rights that are enshrined in the US Constitution as well as the
Canadian Charter of Rights. The vaccine passports are being considered
and/or introduced by various government bodies which will constrain
the rights of citizens under the questionable guise of safety!

The Covid-19 pandemic era we face today has brought out the manifest
nature of a government of bureaucrats and technocrats, who invoke
safety and security of the public in a sly and unobtrusive manner to
promote their agenda of surveillance and control. We have been
struggling with unsound, unscientific, illogical, irrational, and
specious societal lockdowns, shelter-in-place edicts, masking and mask
mandates, and school closures.

Businesses have been shuttered for good, homes lost, and many children
and adults have engaged in heavy drug use to cope, self-harm, and even
committed suicide. Deaths of despair are on the rise, while economic
and related health injuries (many life-threatening and most
life-altering), the crushing costs of the lockdowns have been
extensive and some argue that the impacts will not be felt for months
or years, but for the rest of the 21st century. Even at this point,
were the lockdowns stopped instantaneously, we have locked in decades
of suffering.

Covid-19 vaccine passports, the latest insult in the unending stream
of scientifically inapt actions as outlined above, is already driving
extensive anguish and debate. These digital passports linked to one’s
entire life experience with geolocated data and one’s personal medical
information represents the latest intrusion and attack on our freedoms
that have been put before the easily distracted populace. These
passports are simply unjustifiable on any grounds, not the least of
which is the fact that SARS CoV-2 is no more deadly on a population
level than influenza. Ostensibly, the passports are designed to allow
individuals to partake in everyday commerce and “life” with freedom.

The same freedoms that each and every individual is entitled to under
the Constitution and other bills of rights and freedoms in democratic
societies by definition. And yet we now require a passport to exercise
our ‘unalienable’ right? Absurd. While vaccine records were and still
are a requirement for international travels where infectious diseases
are common, this is as a safeguard for the traveler. But for citizens
of the USA, and elsewhere, the requirement of a digital SARS CoV-2
injection passport has taken on a darker and sinister meaning. These
passports are now being touted as a requirement for living a life
within the country, our own country. This is simply a shattering idea.
Public discourse is already available suggesting that one’s life could
be essentially ‘shut down’ if one does not acquiesce to getting
vaccinated in order to obtain a vaccine passport. Will these passports
now constitute, as they have in the past under the governance of
totalitarian regimes, the very currency for free existence?

What are we about to do? There is even talk of immunity passports also
known as ‘antibody passports’ with the concept of antibodies as a
“declaration of immunity” or “golden passport” so as to return to
routine work and travel. Yet, it is well known that insofar as
immunity passports are concerned, antibody levels in people who’ve
either had Covid-19, or have been vaccinated, wane after weeks to
months.

Hence even someone who should be completely eligible not only for a
vaccine passport but in fact an ‘immunity’ passport would easily fail
the tests required to obtain such a passport. We and others argue that
such will drive the development of a heretofore unheard of (in the USA
and Canada) caste system of the haves (have vaccine passports) and the
have nots (don’t have vaccine passports). Liew stated “the
introduction of immunity passports is beset with challenges, not least
of which is the potential erosion of civil liberties, as travelers are
stratified into the ‘immunoprivileged’ and the ‘immunodeprived.’

Experts have argued that the introduction of vaccine and/or
immunization (antibody) passports must entail extensive debate that
considers all of the moral, ethical and constitutional issues,
including “a comprehensive assessment of benefits and harms, and what
would least restrict individual liberties without significantly
heightening the threat of Covid-19”.

The ACLU has weighed in, sounding warnings that there are many harms
that can arise with the introduction of vaccine passports,
particularly the digitization of relevant information associated with
the granting of those passports. The ACLU stated, “Given the enormous
difficulty of creating a digital passport system, and the compromises
and failures that are likely to happen along the way, we are wary
about the side effects and long-term consequences it could have.”

Perhaps Kofler has outlined the key troubling issues that include the
unreliable nature of serological testing, the extent of erosion of
privacy with monitoring, marginalized groups facing much more uneven
scrutiny, unfair access, and the inevitable, societal stratification.

The U.S. Government has stated that it will not invoke such a
requirement as a Federal Standard, but it is clear that the government
is not beyond giving tacit approval relating to the practical uses of
such passports by businesses and all forms of commerce including
travel. The government appears to be encouraging the private sector to
force the requirement of vaccine passports as a mandate before an
individual is able to utilize these corporate entity services. Even
Dr. Scott Gottlieb, former head of the FDA (2017-2019) advocated for
such passports by intimating that “digital proof would allow Americans
to visit family in the hospital, not keep folks out of restaurants.”
We consider Dr. Gottlieb’s recent op-ed in the Wall Street Journal as
being an egregiously harmful commentary that will lead to the coercion
of the public into seeking and receiving questionably effective and
still experimental vaccines, in order to obtain vaccine passports.
This is nothing short of reckless. In this regard, Gottlieb has
suggested that “passports would empower consumers by giving them more
control over their own health information.” Does he not understand
that we already have control over our own healthcare information and
do not require oversight by ‘Big Brother?’ Indeed, we believe that
even George Orwell would be dumbfounded by such an opinion.

There are many unanswered questions, many troubling ethical and
privacy concerns, especially since this type of digitized governmental
oversight regarding our health has no precedent (and by the way, it
won’t stop there; think about China’s social credit system!). A
vaccine passport is unnecessary and unacceptably invasive and
represents grave overreach in our opinion. We have already been
subjected to vaccines that are causing adverse events and in some
instances, deaths, as per the CDC’s own VAERS reporting system. These
adverse events and deaths must be thoroughly investigated, and very
rapidly, so that the public can get clarity on the risks (the validity
of these reports) as the risk information has been held back from the
public.

Even if the vaccines eventually show themselves to be completely
harmless, safe and effective, which we all pray for, it is wholly
unethical to require proof of vaccination in the first place as a
general principle, and even more so concerning the fact that as of
this writing, all vaccinations for SARS-CoV-2 are still considered
experimental!

What is even more jarring to our sense of liberty is the additional
imposition of censorship of thoughts expressed on paper or social
media, particularly of course thoughts that challenge the current
narratives. It seems that corporate giants with multibillions of
dollars in revenue gained from sharing individual user’s personal data
are hard at work to bring the entire society under their umbrella, now
including personal health data! Even though a private enterprise is in
point of fact free to limit the use of its facilities to anyone, we
hold that state governments can still, and are obliged to enact laws
to prevent such private enterprise overreaches that are tantamount to
mass discrimination, thus also making the vaccine passports
discriminatory by their very nature. And as one would imagine,
objections to so-called vaccine passports are also mounting in the
United Kingdom, where freedom loving individuals are expressing their
outrage via podcasts.

The airlines, such as United Airlines, are enthusiastically leaning
towards the requirement of a vaccine passport prior to gaining entry
to a flight. The cruise line industry , including governments such as
Australia, Denmark and other European nations, are actively seeking
such mandates as a means to ensure safety with such demands. But in
reality this is pure theatre and safety is definitely unimportant
insofar as their judgements are concerned.

The folly of these requirements becomes very striking when one
considers that we do not require vaccination passports for smallpox,
influenzas, tuberculosis (TB; an emerging crisis regarding the
development of multidrug resistant TB). Microsoft, meanwhile has
developed an Excelsior Pass in New York that would ostensibly be used
on a voluntary basis but has run into trouble with regard to
reliability and implementation. Its use portends an extreme degree of
surveillance of an individual’s freedom by a private enterprise and
simultaneously allows the government to accumulate data for its own
‘potentially’ questionable goals.

One wonders whether restaurants will monitor for such a passport from
their patrons, a retail store for that matter, or a sporting facility.
If such private mandates are allowed, there will of necessity exist
two tiers of citizenry, those with and those without such passports.
The latter will come under harder scrutiny for all transactional
pursuits in their lives and might even be considered as “dissidents,”
a societal classification that is generally applied to people who
oppose a totalitarian regime. Imagine that! Someone can be accused of
being a dissident, or even perhaps an insurrectionist if the person
does not have a vaccine passport! The class warfare will then also
include those vaccinated versus those unvaccinated added to the
repertoire of rich and poor, white and black, privileged versus
non-privileged, and other divisive nonsense employed to destroy a
society and pit brother against brother, friend against friend,
neighbor against neighbor.

The educational industry and other corporations are gearing up legal
defenses against any resistance to the launch of vaccine passports.
The challenge might come from the courts, as long as the judges have
free will and use the Constitution as the founding document of liberty
and freedom in the United States for informing and substantiating
their decisions.

We suggest that developing countries will suffer the most,
economically, from such mandates as lower income countries that do not
have the vaccine in supply will be targeted by the developed nations
and prohibited from visiting the wealthy countries that have the
vaccines. The testing for immune status, pre- and post-travel will
create another onerous demand on the traveling public and will have a
devastating impact on the travel industry with an equally devastating
effect on businesses that thrive as a result of a robust travel
industry.

On one hand it seems that many world governments and global
corporations are in favour of vaccine passports and yet, the World
Health Organization does not support the Vaccine Passports for…now.
“We as WHO are saying at this stage we would not like to see the
vaccination passport as a requirement for entry or exit because we are
not certain at this stage that the vaccine prevents transmission…” It
is only a matter of time before international pressures from
totalitarian governments before the WHO likely changes this opinion
unfortunately.

There are several scientific reasons for arguing against the use of
vaccine passports that go beyond the impact such actions will have on
our human rights. We bring to the fore some thoughts regarding the
vaccines. The vaccines as designed so far do not protect an individual
by the provision of “sterilizing immunity.” By sterilizing immunity we
mean that there is no further prospect of either getting infected by
the SARS-CoV-2 virus after a vaccination nor of passing along the
virus to others. It has been suggested that the vaccines will limit
the possibility of a (re)infection that might lead to hospitalization
and even death. But for those who insist on ‘following the science,’
none of the vaccines have been shown in any way to reduce either
hospitalization of death.

On a related front though we point out that in some cases proof of
vaccination is the norm. This could apply to individuals who must
prove that they’ve been vaccinated against polio before going to a
country where polio viral endemicity is for the safety of the
individual and for the host country. The individual is deemed to be
able to enter the country safely. This is decidedly not the case in
the midst of a pandemic where the entire world has a circulating
virus!

In this regard, how does a vaccine passport help if the vaccine is
impotent in protecting an individual from an infection and its
furtherance through transmission, particularly when there is an
ever-increasing font of mutant forms of, in our case, SARS-CoV-2
meaning that some vaccines are already being shown to be ineffective
against certain variants/mutations? Such concepts are not reckless,
but merely bring to fore the need to understand basic concepts of
viral transmission in concert with important and in fact sacrosanct
human liberties and freedoms. These outcomes have simply not been
evaluated!

In addition to the limitations discussed above, there are other
sequelae as a consequence of the vaccination that we have alluded to
in the past that need consideration. Using this information then to
mandate a policy by the airline industry and other private commercial
entities is duplicitous at best and discriminatory at worst. Such
augury laced with the term “for the public good,” needs a
reconciliation of sorts. The future envisioned seems to be more
destined to benefit private corporations and their leaders as well as
the government, and less to protect the individual. The term “public
good” that is currently being bandied about is really tantamount to
mere virtue signaling from across various disciplines and in our
opinion has little to do with the public good.

Several States in the United States have shown a resolve against the
premise of the vaccine passports. These include Texas, Tennessee,
Florida, Mississippi at present. But surely more will follow their
lead as more information and resistance from the populace comes to
bear. The public must be resolute and stand up and say NO. Under no
conditions shall we accept this level of government or corporate
control of our lives, particularly in light of the harms and lack of
benefit!

We raise this issue out of concern for the very basic freedoms we hold
so dearly and the potential destruction that waits should this go
forward. We urge strong urgent debate on this, but populations must
act now as we debate, by standing up against any more draconian
intrusions by their governments. The devastating pandemic response by
governments and their often illogical, unscientific, unsound, and
often absurd expert medical advisors (Task Forces) and television
medical experts have left lives and societies in ruin. Children have
suffered losses that some argue will never be recovered in their
lifetimes. Vaccine passports promise to dwarf what we have witnessed
across the last year due to the unintended consequences and collateral
damage related to our ill-informed responses to SARS-CoV-2!

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Contributing Authors

    Paul E Alexander MSc PhD, McMaster University and GUIDE Research
Methods Group, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada elias98_99 at yahoo.com

    Howard C. Tenenbaum DDS, Dip. Perio., PhD, FRCD(C) Centre for
Advanced Dental Research and Care, Mount Sinai Hospital, and Faculties
of Medicine and Dentistry, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada
howard.tenenbaum at sinaihealth.ca

    Dr. Parvez Dara, MD, MBA, daraparvez at gmail.com


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