New York has rolled out a vaccine passport. The Article is here.
Yes, at this point it’s only New York. But the plan is to roll this kind of dystopian nightmare out across our country and across the whole planet.
I’ve got just a few questions…
How the heck does anybody think this is a good thing?
At a time when a law requiring a citizen to produce ID to vote is “racist“, and has been described as akin to Jim Crowe. It’s apparently it’s A-Okay to require someone to produce proof that they’ve been vaccinated so that they can enter a venue, or shopping center?
At a time when the stratification of our society is by far, worse than it’s even been in my memory (figure 50 + years), we’re fine with saying some people are not able to enter some buildings, shops, etc?
What happened to equality? Not everyone will get the vaccine for various reasons.
Some people literally can’t take the stuff. They’re to be excluded from participating fully in society? Shopping, Travel, Sporting events, concert halls, you name it, all due to a quirk in their biology?
One could easily describe higher or lower quantities of melanin in the skin as a biological quirk.
Will we see “Vaccinated” and “Un-Vaccinated” Water Fountains?
Will we be okay with “Vaccinated” and “Un-Vaccinated” Subway trains, or Buses?
Will we be more okay with marginalizing a segment of our society for supposed “Bio-Hazard” reasons instead of racial reasons? What does that look like?
People in tattered clothing with a pink Bio-Hazard label on their lapels?
Homeless, destitute, hungry, but otherwise completely healthy people, excluded from society? Will we force these people into the bowels of our cities to work in filth (regardless of their intellectual ability,) becaus they’re presumed to be; diseased, carriers… expendable?
Or will we just opt for leper colonies that look more like Hitler’s concentration camps?
Trouble is, no matter how much you want these assumed “pariahs” to die, they probably won’t.
They’re likely to become stronger, healthier, and because they won’t have the benefits of an easy life where their feelings aren’t being hurt, they’ll be tougher mentally too. Quite likely, they’ll be much more clever at survival.
See, I have a lot of faith in biology and the adaptability of the species. Apparently a lot more faith than what passes for “Science” these days.
I reiterate, COVID-19 has a survival rate of 97% or higher.
The next question is;
Might we be over-reacting a bit?
We’re still learning a lot about this virus. New discoveries are being made, peer reviewed, and published papers, show up in reputable medical journals almost daily.
A lot of those discoveries are actually pretty good news. The human race may have dodged a bullet this time around.
Would it not be better to consider this a dry run? Learn from this experience what works, and what doesn’t, then lay down the groundwork necessary to mitigate the next, likely more deadly pandemic?
Say something like an airborne Ebola, or the Black Plague, that kills in 6 hours? (Come on… You know some insane government or military somewhere on the planet has thought about it.)
I’m simply not ready to go to a GATTACA, The Walking Dead, Omega Man, or other dystopian nightmare scenario just yet.
I don’t think it’s right or reasonable to demand vaccination records to transact business.
Politicians have been attempting to spin shame for those people who choose not to wear a mask.
What’s the saying, “You’re not wearing a mask for your protection. You’re wearing a mask for the protection of others.” Implicitly stating that you’re a selfish bastard for not wearing a mask.
The spin machines have been trying to conflate wearing a mask as an act of patriotism, when in reality it’s probably more likely government mandated virtue signaling. A way of reenforcing that “We’re all in this together…“
If the shaming, spin and conflation continue to their logical conclusion. Things will be a lot worse than someone at a dog park being maced.
Picture the poor schmuck standing in line at a grocery store who discovers too late, that they don’t have the “Correct” vaccine de jour.
Crowds who believe they’re right, and just, get very ugly, very quickly.
I could see someone being beaten to death because their vaccine scan failed. (Sadly, they’d be counted as another COVID-xx death.)
Being the cynical and dark fuck that I am, the following scenario occurs to me.
Because the vaccine is essentially free, and the vaccine passport is also free I could see a scenario where the next 3 – 5 years is a period of adjustment.
A “New Normal” where everyone scans their vaccine passport to enter everywhere. Once people aren’t thinking about it anymore big pharma starts charging for the booster shots.
Picture the level of non political control a government or company could exercise on an entire population. “Oh, we’re sorry, you can’t cross the state line, or enter this city, or corporate office, without a booster shot. It costs $2200 for nonessential people, and we can give it to you right now if you can afford it…”
If you were one of the people in control, you could create an immediate two caste system, and easily control who was elite and who wasn’t simply by controlling the price of a vaccine or booster shot. All you need to do is keep fear alive.
No bullets, no war no political systems or parties… just simple absolute control.
If that doesn’t scare the hell out of you, it should. History has shown us repeatedly that control is the goal