your papers please
(well, unless it's to vote, then you're fine!)
they said they would never do this. but, of course, they did.
but even on top of this nasty oppressive campaign of “jim covid” (which looks, based on demographic patterns for vaccination more and more like actual jim crow) another jarring issue arises:
it’s been pretty wild watching the exact same people who have spent a decade declaiming any and all attempts to require ID to vote in america as racist attempts at voter suppression to disenfranchise minorities who lack ID or are uncomfortable providing it (a near 100% baseless claim) flip to demanding not just proof of vaccination (which minorities disproportionately lack) but ALSO these same ID’s that are apparently too difficult to obtain for voting.
i mean, how is anyone supposed to take that dichotomy seriously?
though a couple of potential solutions jump to mind:
these people are not even trying to make sense. it’s all just weaponized tactical morality being applied as self-serving double standards.
nothing more.
but also nothing less.
it’s as reprehensible as it is dishonest.
It’s REALLY important to appreciate that this “papers, please” issue is not just a matter of personal outrage about official overreach. It is that, but it’s SO much worse than that.
No, these “papers”, “vaccine passports”, “green passes” are something you’ve never encountered before.
What they are is the worlds first, common format, digital ID, with editable health & other fields & crucially, with “interoperable” characteristics.
This means that you & I might present our VaxPasses to the same reader, one after the other, and get completely different responses.
It might permit you to buy lunch & exclude me from the facility.
These are a CONTROL MECHANISM. Worse, a totalitarian tyrannical control mechanism, which you cannot resist.
They’ll start by making a valid VaxPass a requirement to do something you don’t care about.
Then they’ll gradually widen the number of places in which they’re required until it’s EVERYWHERE.
Now imagine you object. Say you don’t want to walk up to receive your fifth covid19 “vaccine”.
You have no choice, because a valid VaxPass is required to buy food. Or gas. Or to enter anywhere. Or to leave your house.
Do not allow VaxPass to take root in your country. It’s like a cancer, invisible at first, but relentlessly metastasising until it’s everywhere & extinguishes your life.
I see no possible way to remove VaxPass once it’s deeply embedded in a society.
30% of people will think they make them safer. Try taking VaxPass off such people. They’ll fight you.
I'll confess to being so naive, even in my rapidly-tarnishing golden years, as to have truly been surprised at how few of the "educated elite" actually do love their children.