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Vaccines, Immunity Passports vs Personal Privacy – Mark of the Beast?

This was originally published by World Net Daily on February 15th and then republished here on February 17th. I’m re-dating it to give it more attention as the topic is now gaining more acceptance by “mainstream” news sources.

By now most have decided their stance on the COVID-19 vaccine.  You’ve either received it, plan on getting it, or are flat out saying, No way!

This commentary is not meant to argue vaccine versus no vaccine. Instead, I’m concerned about the many conversations I’ve recently had with friends who are convinced that COVID-19 vaccination passports—for air travel, access to job sites, schools and public places—should be, and will be, instituted soon. I also know of someone who is considering proof of vaccination to attend their private wedding ceremony and reception.

Currently, vaccination verification is limited to a paper form. Such a document could be easily forged. As such, alternate proposals are turning to tech. One proposal involves vaccination authentication that could be stored in a digital token on a smartphone app with various forms of two-step authorization as a safety mechanism.

In fact, the International Air Transport Association (IATA), an airline trade association that represents 290 airlines worldwide, said on November 23, 2020 that it was in the final stages of developing a digital vaccine passport for travelers. The IATA Travel Pass will let travelers share their vaccination status and COVID test results with airlines and border authorities, via a contactless passport app.

But there’s a problem: what about those without a smartphone?

Analysis has shown that African Americans are far less likely than white, Hispanic, or Asians to be tested before they end up in the emergency room. Mobile testing sites administered by Verily Life Sciences (a subsidiary of Google’s parent, Alphabet) require people to have a smartphone and a Google account before getting tested. Residents in San Francisco’s Tenderloin district, one of the city’s poorest neighborhoods, were turned away from testing sites because they didn’t have a smartphone.

No surprise given that Google’s entire business model is based upon gathering personal information for marketing purposes.

In addition to those who don’t have smartphones there are countless individuals who do not want to share their personal health information with the likes of a private for-profit corporation like Google.

But don’t worry, there’s a plan for these concerns.

It’s Called The Slippery Slope

Let’s be clear, there is currently no vaccine for COVID-19 that insures immunity; one can still become ill. Also, the current vaccines do not prevent the spread of the virus.

So what’s going on here?

Digital-format immunity passports would eventually likely normalize digital-format proof-of-status documents.

Advocates of COVID passports visualize a world where we can’t pass through a door to a plane, workplace, school, or restaurant until the gatekeeper scans our credentials. In no time the public would be conditioned to submit to these demands.

This digital system could easily be expanded to check not just a person’s immunity status, but any other bit of personal information that a gatekeeper might deem relevant, such as banking information, age, pregnancy, HIV status, or criminal history; and all data—your data—could be accumulated into one database.

And could we really trust those overseeing the databases?

Of course not.

The next step in this plan will move from smartphone apps to invisible barcode-like tattoos stamped on the body of those who have been vaccinated. This would accommodate those without cell phones and prevent hackers from stealing personal information. The tattoo plan is funded by Bill and Melinda Gates. The easily applied invisible tattoos would likely be placed on the hand or forehead.

Students of the Bible will immediately recall the mark of the Beast from the New Testament’s Book of Revelation:

He causes all, both small and great, rich and poor, free and slave, to receive a mark on their right hand or on their foreheads, and that no one may buy or sell except one who has the mark or the name of the beast… (Revelation 13:16-17).

No, I’m not claiming the vaccine is the mark of the Beast, but I am emphasizing that society is moving very quickly into a brave new world. Especially in the realm of personal privacy and information security.

Our government was designed to protect our liberties, not recklessly allow them to be abused.

Brian Sussman is the author of Climategate: A Veteran Meteorologist Exposes the Global Warming Scam

COVID Vaccine: the new passport

(Hat Tip Natural News)

I’m sure many of you saw this coming weeks  ago. The COVID-19 vaccine is fast becoming the new passport.

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, along with authoritarians in mostly Democrat-run states, and the trans-nationalist elites who run the much of the world, are now showing their hand regarding our ability to travel, both domestically and internationally.

Domestically, that means the U.S. Constitution’s ‘right to travel’ guarantee be damned.

A story from the Washington Post published Dec. 28 details how the CDC is telling airlines who can and cannot fly based on whether they’ve tested positive for the virus.

The paper notes: 

The CDC says in no uncertain terms not to travel while sick or after testing positive for the coronavirus. This year, the agency has added more than 400 people to a “Do Not Board” list for covid-19; those on the list will not be issued a boarding pass for any commercial flight in, to or from the United States.

In addition, the political leaders of Democrat stronghold states are also imposing restrictions regarding the virus, including imprisonment. As a result, the airline industry is already trending towards mandating that passengers have so-called “vaccine passports” before they’ll be allowed on board a flight.

That’s because, as the Post reported, more and more people are beginning to complain that the “honor system” — that is, relying on passengers to be honest about whether or not they’ve tested positive or have symptoms of COVID-19 — isn’t reliable.

But it’s also true that a large plurality of people who have contracted the disease have no idea they have it because they’re not symptomatic.

“Individuals can be pre-symptomatic or entirely asymptomatic,” Joshua Barocas, an epidemiologist at the Boston University School of Medicine, told the Post. “In both cases those individuals are still infectious, and the symptom screening tools are completely ineffective.”

Nonetheless, the CDC, according to the Post, has yet to confirm that anyone who was positive with the virus and flew on a play transmitted it to anyone else. 

So the solution? Mandated vaccines followed by proof of vaccination. 

As  CNN reported this week, “Now that coronavirus vaccines are starting to roll out in the US and abroad, many people may be dreaming of the day when they can travel, shop and go to the movies again. But in order to do those activities, you may eventually need something in addition to the vaccine: a vaccine passport application,”  

Public health officials are so desperate to vaccinate a majority of Americans, they are now calling “vaccine hesitancy” a public health threat. Informed consent no longer matters. Individuals are lumped into a collective category — a priority group – and told to vaccinate as a herd.  According to Dr. Paul Offit, who sits on the CDC’s Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices (ACIP), there must be “mass vaccination events” that would mobilize federal, state and local resources to round people up and get the job done.

“So it can’t be like getting a flu shot, where you walk into CVS when you can,” Offit said. “There has to be these mass vaccination events.”

Complete with silly I’m Vaccinated stickers to place on your shirt or blouse, I’m predicting.

As I’ve mentioned in recent Hidden Headlines’ Podcasts, this is everything the trans-nationalist, technocratic, socialist elites ever hoped for and more.