I just downloaded my new Proof of Vaccination card from the Government of Canada. Now I can fly anywhere I want, except I will not be for at least the next year. I do not have a crystal ball so I have no idea when governments will finally get the big bad bug under control.
I can make some educated guesses about it based on the viruses capacity to evolve and the aims of different world oligarchic factions. One factor is coming clear; people can be reinfected multiple times with the bug. There will be no “herd immunity” and the only way to end it is with a combination of universal vaccination and ongoing transmission controls.
But I am not going into the war on the bug in great detail here. I am focussing on this simple form I have just downloaded and I am putting up for all who read it to see. I am asking why this creates such a fuss among people with a civil liberties type of mentality.
The anti mask, anti vaxx, anti vaxpass, anti, anti, anti types have been less successful with the public in most of Canada than in many other places. Governments here have still acted like they are afraid of them. They have had to be pressured every step of the way to do what is needed and they consistently do a poor job.
It was clear a year and a half ago that at some point a vaccination campaign would roll out and some type of vaccination card would be needed. Nonetheless my provincial government seemed totally surprised by this. After resisting for awhile, they came up with this idea of vaccination receipts. The problem with them is that they are easily forged and there is no proof linking the card with the person holding it.
Now, it is becoming necessary to have a nationally issued vaccine record to be able to travel by air. The federal government has come up with the form I am looking at. It is still easily forgeable and still has no way to check the identity of the carrier.
The worst thing about it is that it depends on provincial health ministry databases. The provincial government of Ontario has announced it is going to erase the database next spring, when it intends to declare the pandemic over and end all control measures. Covid has consistently failed to comply with the timelines of Doug the Thug and friends.
For now, there is my “proof of Vaxx”. I cannot see how it interferes with my privacy in any way. What is all the screaming shitstorm about, in many countries and through many platforms, about such a document? I will examine this briefly.
the confusion
I pretty much discount noise from right wing opponents of vaccine measures. These are mostly punks and cranks. If faced with a choice of complying or being locked up, they will bitch about it and comply.
People coming at it from the left are harder to understand. They come from anarchist and left libertarian dogmas, both about as thin as paper. Some are mere fake left people, who are really liberal or right wing.
Yet some are people I have read and supported, at least until they started all the false civil liberties nonsense. Governments are using the pandemic as an excuse to take our civil rights away. So I have put some effort into figuring them out.
Their main malfunction seems to be in a confusion of two similar but separate issues. One is that control freak tendencies in Oligarchy and bureaucracy are trying to use the pandemic to expand their surveillance state. On the other hand is the fact of the pandemic and the obligation of government to enact pandemic measures to control it.
As for the former, so what? Unaccountable power is always looking for ways to enhance its surveillance capacity. It never does them any good in the end; just gives them some advance warning to run for their lives.
The short term answer to all this is for the public to keep pushing back about it. We seem to be pretty good at this in Canada; we have such things here as an office of the privacy commissioner. Often the privacy commissioners decide to do their jobs. We invented the concept, of ‘privacy by design’.
You know what the longer term answer is.
As for the latter, government needs to be able to govern in the public interest. There are certain obligations that go with living in a civilized society. These include identifying yourself, and cooperating with well intentioned measures, especially when needed to cope with a real crisis like a pandemic. People disputing this need to go give their heads a soak.
People should in fact be demanding vaccine cards. These are the only things that will allow free and safe movement under pandemic conditions. Their main purpose is not to protect vaccinated people from the unvaccinated but to protect unvaccinated people from each other.
This prevents the public health system from being crashed by the covidiots. If I have a stroke or get in a car wreck I want to go to a hospital which does not have them stacked up in the hallways moaning “alright, can I get vaccinated now, please?” And of course, with the ‘breakthrough’ infections for whom the vax did not work.
Do not allow them to load the Vax cards with any nonsense not related to the card’s actual function. What it should have on it is a QR code giving access to the the dates of your vaccinations. This of course goes into a central database.
If you cannot vax, then the date of your most recent covid test. This would require some system of calling in your tests on a weekly basis, which could be fairly inconvenient. If you can not do this, then you mask up or do not enter the venue.
Something which would be optional is to leave your contact information wherever you have been, so if there is an outbreak you can be notified. This information would be erased after three weeks.
Obviously, there will need to be something on the card to connect the information on the card with the person carrying it. The simple way to do that is with a portrait photograph.
The technology for all this is not difficult or expensive. All it requires is a little investment and some organizational ability, which government should be able to command.
We may as well put all this in place because we will be stuck in the pandemic for awhile. It will continue to reduce living standards and productivity. No country can control it because some countries refuse to control it, thus creating a permanent reservoir and breeding more potent versions of the virus.
The same evilists who have been pushing the idea that we will just have to live with the virus have been doing everything they can to make sure we will have to. But we do not have to.
As I have pointed out in previous articles, there is a three way fight on how to deal with the covid virus. We have the ‘herd immunity’ morons, the ‘learn to live with it’ creeps, and the people who know that the virus could be eliminated with proper measures. I think the latter are gradually prevailing.
Enough said.