Vaccine passports, which have been introduced or promised in over half the American states, are a backdoor attempt to give digital control over the most intimate details of our lives to government minders. And they need to be opposed by everyone who can think two steps ahead — whether they be conservatives, liberals, progressives, Mugwumps, or Shaysites still hiding out in the hills of western Massachusetts.
The first reason to do so is that we simply have no idea what a vaccine passport means in practice — nor even what the vaccine will be in the end. Will it be three doses? Four? Or two plus a proven previous infection? We do not know what the passports will restrict users from accessing. Their jobs? Public amenities? The very health-care services that progressives otherwise deem a human right? A vaccine passport is just a system of control, to do what and for what purpose TBD.
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