"Those who would give up liberty to purchase a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.” Benjamin Franklin
I've said this before, but it bears repeating. There is no neutral turf in this battle. If you shrug your shoulders, tell yourself it's no biggie... if you believe that the ‘unvaccinated’ should be inconvenienced or worse... if you just can't bring yourself to educate yourself about the facts, then you are also the enemy. You're part of the silent majority who are facilitators by virtue of your inaction and you're also foolish enough to think that, in the long run, nothing will happen to you.
And if you're a part of this takeover, whether by actively helping or via the sin of omission, then you will be doing your own legs, too. Seeing as self interest seems to be a priority of yours, maybe that'll get your attention. Every single one of you who has taken this jab because it's too inconvenient not to or because you want to appease others has committed an act that not only risks your own health, but is also the first step in giving up your freedom. Because taking any vaccine benefits you, first and foremost and then others as a result. You can't have one without the other. Except this 'vaccine' doesn't benefit anyone. And whilst your health is a matter for you, your freedom is inextricably linked to mine and you have no right to give it away for nothing.
What makes you think that the elites are suddenly going to include the 'vaccinated' in their gang? Do they have previous for munificence? I think not. They are far fonder of the stick than the carrot and they have never been about giving back the things they've taken; or borrowed 'temporarily', like your freedom. That is not the way the world works and it doesn't take the brains of an archbishop to realize it.
So, this is for all the people who don't see a problem with vaccine passports. Perhaps you don't actually applaud the idea, but you're not about to die in a ditch defending the rights of the ‘unvaccinated’. Better to keep your powder dry for a battle that matters. Anyway, what's the harm? Private entities are allowed to set their own rules and if it convinces more people to get the jab, then that's a good thing.
You think this way because, if you support the passport, you'll already be ‘vaccinated’ and you don't think that any potential hardship will come your way. Besides, perhaps the unbelievers deserve some discomfort, some loss of privileges, to bring them back into line and to stop them selfishly believing that their own freedom is more important than the collective. All they have to do is have the inoculation; it's not much to ask.
If you think that you should follow whatever rules are imposed without question, that you should respect the collective over individual choice, that you should indulge those that wear their masks outdoors, in the summer, and wear yours too to still their racing pulse, you are not a student of history.
If you believe this line of thinking, you also haven't been paying attention. You've been worshiping at the altar of the BBC or CNN. The Establishment isn't just trying to get at the Deplorables. It's intention is to get at all of us; it's just going to take slightly longer to get to you. But not much longer. This is an account of all the ways that we will all be affected:
Vaccine passports don't prove immunity, only compliance.
Your medical status and your finances will be tied together.
Vaccine passports are the precursor to a mobile digital ID.
All the technology required to enslave you already exists.
Vaccine passports will ruin the economy.
Those who comply will be condemning others to second class lives.
Vaccine passports don't prove immunity, only compliance
This is inescapable logic. The Covid 'vaccines' don't prevent infection or transmission; this is acknowledged by the drug companies and the CDC and proven by real world data. Therefore, those who get the jab are no less of a risk to their fellow citizens than those who chose not to. The only outcome is to show that you are a good citizen, complying with a requirement that makes no sense in order to enjoy rights and freedoms that are yours already, but which the state has taken away.
Not only that but, as is now known, even that 'vaccine' effectiveness is on the wane. Not just a little bit, either. By the end of July, it stood at 39% in Israel, a widely vaccinated country. Not to worry; boosters to the rescue. But, what that means is that, not only are you consenting to a scheme that deprives citizens of fundamental rights, you are doing so for very little benefit to yourself and a tranche of potential side effects, which will now be exacerbated every six months or so.
Linking medical status and finances
In the vanguard is Vax Verify of Illinois. Here, a citizen can download the app onto their mobile phone and verify their identity through Experian, a financial credit score company. Why would that be? Why would there be a verification process linked to a credit score?(1)
IBM and Moderna are also partnering, in order to develop a digital Health Pass, designed to be linked to our biometric data; this will allow us access (or deny us access) to public spaces and events, depending on our vaccinations status. It sounds so much better doesn't it? Health Pass, rather than vaccine passport. If you think that sounds a little futuristic, I'm going to have to disappoint you. It's already being trialed in New York.(2)
It uses IBM's blockchain technology. Coincidentally, IBM has developed other blockchain functions; the snappily entitled Blockchain Transport Supply & Food Trust Services and the Blockchain World Wire Cross-Border Payment Services. You may think that there is currently no link between vaccination details and personal finances and you may be right. On the other hand, this is the same IBM that partnered with Hitler, creating the world's first punch card system in order to assist with the administration of the death camps:
“Newly released documents expose more explicitly the details of IBM's pivotal role in the Holocaust – all six phases: identification, expulsion from society, confiscation, ghettoization, deportation and even extermination.”(3)
I'm merely reporting the facts; maybe someone has a sense of humor. However, we may be able to agree with the observation that vaccine passports undoubtedly aid with the identification of any dissident elements, as they won't have one, and the existence of the ever lengthening list of activities that will be denied the unvaccinated could already be said to be a partial expulsion from society.
Any functionality can be loaded onto a passport platform. It can also be merged with Paypal, for example. Microsoft is already making noise, proposing that the platform can be merged with payment plans. How do we know that they intend to go further? Because they're telling us. And because they are the tip of the spear; what follows will explicitly link health and finance.
Precursor to mobile ID
A digital biometric ID will, of course, be necessary if we are to enjoy goods and services – especially government services – in a fashion unhindered by the interminable lock-downs which we have suffered already and which will be imposed upon us again this coming winter; or so we'll be told.(4) It's not difficult to see how the state can manipulate its citizens into accepting the need for this technology. After all, they are the ones who can shut in-person services down under the guise of infection prevention.
In this way, even those that refuse to get jabbed can be coerced into registering for this application. The state has thought of everything, of every possible way to get you onto a database. The EU is open about it; it is planning for vaccine passports to morph into a digital ID. You can see how people will think that it's convenient, just like they think that paying for goods via their watch or cellphone is convenient. All data and services can be combined in the same app; what could possibly go wrong?
Aside from the fact that your app could be hacked and, if that were to happen, you'd have ceded all the important information in your life to a criminal. Apart from that, what would happen if the app was turned off? If you've consolidated your ability to communicate with people, pay for things, prove you have a driving licence, insurance and so forth in a mobile app... if this is now the only way you access numerous portals of personal information, then you're in big trouble if you lose the ability to use it, whether by accident or design. However, as is usual, people won't see the dangers, the loss of privacy and potential for loss of control - they’ll just see the convenience.
The vaccine passport will become this digital ID. The plan is that you will use it to do pretty much everything in your life. The obvious corollary is that, without it, you'll be able to do pretty much nothing. When one reads about the ideas for punishments for the recalcitrant unvaxxed that are being touted, even by governments, it becomes clear that the mobile ID would be the chosen method of inflicting them; daily tests at your own expense, denial of medical care, cancellation of health insurance, suspension of drivers' licence...the list goes on.
If we've learned nothing else from the past eighteen months, it's that we can't trust governments. From ‘two weeks to flatten the curve’ to vaccine passports in that short time frame. And why would we assume that we are at journey's end? That they only have our best interests at heart?
Technology already exists
How do you think China manages its Social Credit Score system? With the inevitable QR code and mandatory contact tracing applications, that's how. And China, allegedly a pariah state, is on record as saying:
“China has proposed a global mechanism on the mutual recognition of health certificates based on nucleic acid test results in the form of internationally accepted QR codes.”(5)
That's right. We are, once again, following China's lead; just as we did with lock-downs and social distancing. This, despite the fact that the virus (if it exists as a separate entity) came from China, almost certainly from a laboratory and was exported around the world. In any event, prototypes of the necessary technology have already been used in different countries. Anyone gullible enough to have downloaded the British NHS contact tracing app will be familiar with how the technology works.
But, so far, contact tracing has been a voluntary activity. What if it were to be mandatory? If that were to be part of the New Normal, all of us could be tracked 24/7, on the off chance that we were less than six feet away from someone, at some point, who then lit up a positive on a test which has been shown to have a 97% plus false positive rate and which is only supposed to be used in support of a clinical diagnosis.(6) Not only that, but outdoor transmission rates are much lower than previously claimed; the risk is around 1%. In fact:
“There is not a single documented Covid infection anywhere in the world from casual outdoor interactions, such as walking past someone on the street or eating at a nearby table.”(7)
It seems to me that, when compared to the vanishingly small chance of anything useful being accomplished, the vast amount of collateral intrusion and loss of privacy render the entire idea ineffectual and inappropriate. So, naturally, expect them to be pushed relentlessly.
It might be instructive to turn, once again, to China. Contact tracing and QR codes are mandated; every person coming within six feet of an allegedly infected person is automatically 'pinged' and required to self isolate immediately. By way of encouragement, and as the QR code contains financial information, the state turns off the code temporarily to ensure that access to transport and other services is denied for the relevant period of time. Of course (and predictably), it's not just positive infection that can get you 'pinged'. If you are deemed guilty of wrong think, as measured by your social media output or similar, you can also be denied use of your own money.
And before you say that it'll never happen where you are, a couple of things to ponder. Firstly, the UK has already used a 'lite' version of this app; the aforementioned NHS Contact and Trace. This has resulted in what has become known as a 'pingdemic' which has caused problems galore, with hundreds of thousands of people languishing at home and exhibiting no symptoms at all, just because they were briefly in the vicinity of somebody who subsequently tested positive. It's not difficult to imagine situations where an entire company's staff would be sent home, for example. Risks such as these may well make some smaller businesses non viable.
Secondly, the road-map to a coercive mandate, echoing China, is obvious. At present, those who don't have the app cannot be 'pinged', but those who do, can be. Therefore, provided you take your propaganda with a pinch of salt and aren’t still hyperventilating after eighteen months of BS, there is more to be gained by staying off the grid. Is it likely that governments will, in the end, be content with what they will consider half baked, voluntary solutions? I don't think so, given their track record with other 'temporary measures' in the past eighteen months. They have shown little reluctance to reach for the stick, enforcing their will with fines and arrests. Read between the following lines, if you will. The yearning for more control is palpable:
“The science is not as much of a challenge...the challenge comes around the behavior. The hardest parts of the system are the parts where you need to convince people to do something.”(8)
Is it likely that governments will throw their hands in the air and say it's all too difficult? Or will they do what they've done from the beginning of this pandemic and move to expand their powers, in our 'best interests'? I don't think we need to think about that for too long. What is missing, as usual, is any acknowledgement that the reason that there is reluctance to endorse the government narrative is because the authorities haven't made their case, not because a near majority of the population is feckless. Jenny Wanger (of Linux Public Health Foundation), the author of the above quotation, is typical of the type who cannot see this, convinced, as they are, of their own rectitude.
When people are aware of the fact that there is no evidence that contact tracing is necessary, that the chances of outdoor (and even indoor) transmission is negligible and that both the vaccinated and unvaccinated can transmit the disease, a fair number of them will come to the conclusion that they lose far more than they can potentially gain. Add to this the knowledge that the government has not followed the science from the beginning, despite saying that it has; trust is at a premium. As Clausewitz observed:
“Prepare for what your enemy can do, not what you think he might do.”(9)
Economic woes
If vaccine passports become mandated, they will need to be enforced. Not only that, but every new upgrade (for boosters and specific 'variants') will need to be administered. This will, inevitably, create a vast bureaucracy within government, quite possibly another entirely new branch of it. Add in the business cost of administering it at the front end – the QR scanners, the extra staff, the delays – and this part of the process will squeeze small business, particularly.
Because small businesses have less resources and don't benefit from economies of scale, they will be the hardest hit which, I suspect, will be an intended consequence, engineered by the powers-that-be and merely a continuation of a trend that has been noticeable since the first lock-down was imposed; the vast transfer of wealth from small business to big.
Add the additional welfare cost of paying all those workers who will refuse to have the jab and who are, therefore, unable to work. In the US, this is already starting to show as unemployment numbers rise. When government largesse is as generous as it has been, many people seem to have calculated that staying at home is the sensible option. Then factor in the fact that there is already a shortage of nurses, for example, because around half of them won't get vaccinated. That scenario, and others, comes with a price tag attached.
How about HGV drivers? There's a shortage of them, too. I would imagine that crossing international borders without a vaccine passport is proving difficult, if not impossible: without drivers there will be supply chain problems. These are already becoming obvious. The law of supply and demand dictates that, when there are shortages, prices are driven upwards and quality is driven downwards. That is the inevitable consequence of a lack of competition.
Some states in the US may thrive, but others will require propping up with federal funds, lest they become economic backwaters. This, again, is already happening with the net exodus from blue states to red states, from repressive mandates to more enlightened governance. And money moves with people. All of these elements add cost. Millions more unemployed as smaller businesses go under, rampant inflation as monopolies are formed, less value in the goods or services being provided plus more taxes to pay for the passport infrastructure and the welfare costs of the victims.
Two classes of citizen
It's inevitable and it's already happening. Once critical mass is achieved within a target population, businesses will feel emboldened. As the number of ‘vaccinated’ passport holders creeps up, so more private enterprises will only allow the 'vaccinated' to use their services. Governments, of course, will be the ones pushing those numbers up by issuing often unconstitutional mandates on certain classes of workers; public mandates will feed private mandates. After all, there's no point instituting a requirement if the likely result of such an action would be bankruptcy. But when the majority has complied, such a requirement becomes more viable.
Internationally, we are on the cusp of only being allowed to travel if we're ‘vaccinated’. Governments are also taking the lead domestically, even if businesses don't want them to. Some enterprises are reluctant to adopt a 'vaccination' only policy; not because they think it unfair, but rather because they don't want to be the people having to enforce it in the face of aggrieved customers.
France, that bastion of democracy, is leading the way. A public health pass is now required for anyone over the age of 12 who wants to take in a movie, pump iron or eat out. And in Canada, four provincial governments have decreed that only the 'vaccinated' can attend weddings, play a team sport or enjoy bars, theme parks or restaurants. This despite saying, as recently as July, that no such imposition would be forthcoming.
In the UK, clubbers will have to be vaxxed by the end of September.(10)In Germany, the so-called 3G rule means that only those who can either prove they are ‘vaccinated’, recovered or tested are allowed inside restaurants, gyms and the like. Even that draconian measure, recently introduced, is not divisive enough. Hamburg has now defaulted to 2G, removing the option of a negative test and some private businesses are, on their own recognizance, only accepting the 'vaccinated'.(11)
And how will passports work in the rest of the world? ‘Vaccination’ rates are far lower in South America, Africa and parts of Asia and there isn't the infrastructure, money or desire for endless rounds of 'vaccines' and boosters. If the current momentum continues, entire continents will become second class global citizens.
How any of these measures in any of these countries can be justified legally, even under emergency powers, is a question for another day. Suffice to say, the speed at which fundamental rights are being lost is furious. Is this something that you want? Is this something that you think is justified? Do you not think that, if we were talking about Ebola (rather than Covid), pretty much everybody would be on board with a vaccination? And that, therefore, the reason they aren't has to do with reasons other than irresponsibility?
People who don't want to be told what to do by governments that are exceeding their authority are already second class citizens in a number of places. And, if that doesn't make them change their mind about the ‘vaccinations’, there will have to be further measures. Do you want to see friends and family members condemned to a lesser existence? Because if they are, it'll be people like you that allowed it to happen.
Conclusion
In July, the WHO issued a press release, informing us that they were on the verge of publishing standards for the digital certification of ‘vaccination’. This was clearly in the best interests of the consumer, who should be able to use them across national borders. Of course, extending vaccine passports internationally will also have the effect of sealing off travel to the unjabbed, as well, but nobody seems to be talking about that.
In a textbook example of double speak, the WHO mandarin stated:
“WHO does not promote the use of vaccine passports...” but “the bottom line is that we will have the guidelines very soon and the standards for the digital certification and we encourage all countries to adopt them because it's good to have an interoperable certificate.”(12)
I imagine that, because she said 'promote' rather than 'support' she feels able to make the second statement in good faith. To me, and perhaps to you, she's trying to have her cake and eat it; purporting to be against a system that embeds inequality, but keen to make sure it does it properly.
These passports are here already. And remember; there will be no going back. You won't be able to stop the world and get off. Once you allow vaccine passports into your life, you'll be on the compliance treadmill. That passport is going to need updating. At the moment, two shots is the price you pay, but you know as well as I that you'll need a booster this winter. And Mr Pfizer is already talking about specific 'vaccines' for specific 'variants.' You'll need those, too, if they tell you that you do. And what happens if the government decides that you need the flu shot, too; just to be completely covered?
Don't think that will happen, when the state has been trying to get everyone to take a flu shot for years? When they are already telling you what shots are just down the road? If you still don't understand it, then what you really need is a shot that improves your brain power but, sadly, that's about the only jab that won't be available; especially as they are hoping that thinking is the last thing on your mind.
There is no reason to think that anything the state says is automatically true. After all, the number of things that they have already said that are flat out lies are manifold. You should know this already. If you don't, it's not too late to find out. As is so often the case, the truth is out there. You just have to find it for yourself. The truth about vaccine passports is no different. The elites are hiding in plain sight.
It's not solely about vaccine passports; it's also about getting the shots. Because if it were just about the passports, forcing people to have one would be an end in itself. Whether you had the status of 'previously infected' or you had just tested negative would have also been acceptable. But the former has never been an option and the latter is already being phased out, with no explanation as to why. But the passports are equally important to the elites.
The best way to work out what is coming isn't to pore over 'case' numbers and fret about the 'delta variant'. All that nonsense is designed to distract and frighten. The proof of it is that the push to ‘vaccinate’ does not slacken, no matter what the alleged state of 'cases' or 'deaths' or effectiveness or otherwise of the shots. The number of jabs that will be required will keep increasing, because the stated task – to eradicate Covid – is a deliberately impossible one. But the pressure to comply (and through these means) to control people through digital IDs will just intensify, no matter what the state of the virus.
And listen to them telling you what’s on the horizon. Big Media doesn't cover it and you'll get kicked off Twitter for even mentioning it, but it's not like they haven't told us. They've even said that the pandemic (plus that old warhorse, climate change) provides a great opportunity to introduce the Great Reset. You know; Build Back Better. As so often, Justin Trudeau found the words to channel his inner Messiah, by claiming that the 'pandemic' was an:
"… opportunity for a reset ... our chance to accelerate our pre-pandemic efforts to re-imagine economic systems that actually address global challenges like extreme poverty, inequality and climate change."(13)
Do you honestly think that they are going to do anything that hampers that outcome? Do you think that they will relinquish the powers that they have seized, when the whole point is to get more of them? Or entrust you to have a say in reassembling society, when they already know how best to do it; or how best to do it for their own interests, anyway. Recognize vaccine passports for what they are. They are the gateway to a future that most of you don't want.
This is not some tin foil hat, dystopian vision warning of events that are a generation away. Things are moving very quickly. In the US and elsewhere, the safeguards a constitution provides will not be enough. They will ignore what they can't change. They will accomplish what they seek by means of extra legal means, guidelines and regulations. It's what they've been doing for decades, because they believe that unelected 'experts' are the ones who should be in charge, not elected officials.
And, in the not too distant future, we will all be back in the same boat. All of us will be required to have a digital ID (if only because life will become too difficult to navigate without one), we'll all be sans privacy, vulnerable to the whim of whoever has their finger on the off button. Your compliance, both current and future, won't have put you any further up the food chain or preserved your freedoms at the expense of others. Plus, you'll be getting a toxic shot every six months or so.
It's not difficult to make the case that it's not the 'unvaccinated' who are selfish and irresponsible. On the contrary. If we get Covid (or if we've already had it) we are highly likely to have lifetime immunity, which means that we won't get it again and won't be able to transmit it, once we’ve recovered. You, the 'vaccinated', have no such guarantees. Remember the Israeli data?
You are the ones who will lose immunity; you are the ones who will always be at risk of contracting a coronavirus and transmitting it to the 'vaccinated' and 'unvaccinated' alike. And, even though the latest booster may give you protection for a while, you can still become infective and transmissive because it's not actually a 'vaccine' in the first place.
Remember that a good proportion of the population (between 20% and 50%) had natural immunity from the very beginning. That might be why so many were asymptomatic; that or the PCR tests were giving false positives (or a combination of both). Remember also that, as we go on, the constituency of the uninfected and ‘unvaccinated’ will inevitably decrease in size, whereas the vaccinated community, with fleeting immunity, will grow. Lastly, remember that mutations are effectively driven by selection pressure – nothing drives immune escape quite as well as a mass vaccination campaign, especially against a coronavirus, known to be a rapidly mutating class of viruses, for which there has never been a successful vaccine.
If we are to have a two tier society of 'vaccinated' and 'unvaccinated', the former are the class of people who represent the greatest danger. So, perhaps those with a vaccine passport should be the ones excluded from polite society, instead. Not a nice thought, is it? But you are quite happy for us to suffer in your place.
Citations
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/ibm-holocaust_b_1301691
https://dis-blog.thalesgroup.com/identity-biometric-solutions/2021/07/27/how-digital-id-can-help-citizens-access-government-services-from-anywhere/?utm_source=twitter&utm_medium=Hootsuite&utm_term=&utm_content=&utm_campaign=DIS-Digital-Identity
https://www.mumsnet.com/Talk/coronavirus/4083559-PCR-97-false-positives-Portugal-court-ruling
https://www.nytimes.com/2021/05/11/briefing/outdoor-covid-transmission-cdc-number.html
Jenny Wanger, Linux Public Health Foundation, https://www.technologyreview.com/2021/07/23/1030009/uk-pingdemic-exposure-notification-nhs-app/
On War, Carl von Clausewitz
https://www.politicshome.com/news/article/vaccine-passport-nightclubs
https://www.thelocal.de/20210906/majority-of-germans-favour-tough-rules-for-the-unvaccinated/
https://townhall.com/tipsheet/zachbauder/2021/07/13/who-vaccine-passport-n2592387