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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.

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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.

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I live in Chicago. I LOVE spending money in Wisconsin and Indiana. I started when they implemented the soda tax, then the bottled water tax, and of course our confiscatory gasoline tax. Just another reason to keep shopping in other states. Makes no difference to me if they want to require papers.

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It is bizarre this anti-logic world we live in. For years of bioethics training, I was taught all research requires consent. All drugs cannot be coerced. Countless examples of bioethics failures, drug companies paying fines, drugs recalled. And here were are. Does not our society see that we now live in a regressive society where we now accept all the things we rejected and supposedly learned about from history. You know things are bad when you read the Declaration of Independence and realize that this fantastic document that set us on a course for freedom would now be considered conspiracy theory or terrorist. The mental health of the world is currently in a terrible state.

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Not surprising. We are moving deep into the “participation passport” phase of the “new normal” rollout, where we must be conditioned to behave and obey properly in order to be granted “privileges” to access the most mundane aspects of social and civil society. Places like NYC and Chicago are the testing grounds for determining how to implement these systems and then they’ll move right on down the line across every state and city. Eventually, once everything from your front door to your phone to your refrigerator is connected to IoT and controlled remotely by the authorities, you will need a valid passport before your front door will unlock, or your refrigerator will allow you to access food, or your phone send a simple text message. If you disobey by listening to subversives like Joe Rogan or fail to show up for booster #736263-R when you’re told to, You will be locked in, starving, and unable to call anyone for help.

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You know they'd actually allow people to walk through the restaurant to get to the voting booth without ID, but make them present it with a vax card, to eat there.

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The Chicago rules are far more terrifying than they look.

https://simulationcommander.substack.com/p/lori-lightfoot-shoots-chicago-in

TL;DR - This lasts until the city claims it's safe to stop, and the definition of fully vaccinated can be changed at any time to exclude those without boosters.

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OK, hear me out, can we say "jim crovid"? because I think it would hit even harder

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Dec 30, 2021·edited Dec 30, 2021

Just an aside for bird lovers:

Notice that “Jim COVID” and “Jim Crow” make a fabulous analogy/reference/comparison, because crows are members of the CORVID family of birds.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Corvidae

So there’s only one letter difference in the comparison. 😎

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My first thought was WHERE THE F is COOK COUNTY? The second was "WTF, OVER 5"??? This is GENOCIDE. DO NOT OBEY.

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Lightfoot says she's using NYC as her example. And cases there are exploding though the roof, as per Ian Miller. I guess most of her citizens won't do any of their own research to look this up.

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Not visiting Chicago can actually save your life.

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Yep, new offensive after new offensive is being launched. They're not backing down. They're not going to back down. They can't afford to back down.

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Dec 30, 2021·edited Dec 30, 2021

Zzzzzz Welcome to my world. 🇨🇦

Here in Ontario as of Jan 4 you will now need the QR code to get in anywhere.

Restaurants

Civic/rec/areas etc.

Gyms, casinos, concerts, banq. halls

Essentially most places indoors. I’m still allowed to shop (for now)

It’s been in place since September but the vax certification was easily photoshopped but now it’s full QR totalitarianism

Even then I’m sure we are locking down, just waiting for the 3pm news conference from our “chief doctor” 🤪🤪

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Dec 30, 2021Liked by el gato malo

But if I disobey... am I obeying the image?

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Illinois going down the toilet rapidly with California and New York. Thanks to Lori light food, gov pritzker, attorney general Kim, ms perwinkle and do many other great democrats ruining Illinois one step at a time. They are a disgrace.

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