Posted on 04/05/2021 7:48:37 AM PDT by Kaslin
The left-wing media have blasted the GOP for being skeptical of vaccine passports, ignoring the concept's strong criticism from the left also.
Ever since conservatives started raised concerns over the so-called “vaccine passports” the Biden administration is reportedly developing alongside big tech, the legacy media have added this to their narrative that those on the right are alarmist conspiracy theorists.
Aside from the point that Americans are not lunatics for maintaining prudent concerns about government overreach at a time the White House is governing from the far-left, many on the left have also voiced skepticism over vaccine passports. But the exhausting show goes on, as Democrats continue to malign all conservatives to fatuously claim a moral high ground.
The American Civil Liberties Union is a hard-left organization. A leaked internal memo sent by ACLU staffers in 2018 announced the well-funded legal activist group will re-evaluate a “defense of speech” since it may have a “harmful impact on the equality and justice” of society. The group awarded kneeling, Marxist-flirting quarterback Colin Kaepernick with an award in 2017 for being “courageous.” In the 2020 presidential election, the ACLU donated $463 million to Democratic candidates, committees, and PACs.
Nevertheless, ACLU senior policy analyst Jay Stanley, who wrote about defunding the police in June, warned in a blog post on the organization’s website last week that “a lot can go wrong” with a centralized COVID-19 tracking system. Yet White House Press Secretary Jen Psaki claimed “there will be no centralized, universal federal vaccinations database,” which continues to seem doubtful given recent developments regarding vaccine passports.
“Any proposal for vaccine credentials must be primarily paper-based, decentralized, and protect privacy,” Stanley wrote. “But given the difficulty of creating a digital vaccine passport, we could see a rush to impose a COVID credential system built on an architecture that is not good for transparency, privacy, or user control. That could lock us into a bad standard as other parties that need to issue credentials piggyback upon it to offer everything from age verification to health records to hunting licenses to shopping accounts, memberships, and web site logins.”
In a Daily Beast article published in December, left-leaning privacy attorneys Albert Fox Cahn and Amanda Hummell argued Silicon Valley is ill-equipped to handle millions of Americans’ data, which would lead to “a new wave of surveillance tools.”
While claiming algorithms are racist, the two make a solid case big tech will only abuse confidential information given its history of doing so. The piece takes a hard look at the implications of allowing big tech such intimate access into our lives, and questions both the role corporations should play in vaccine tracking and whether they are suited to do so at all.
New products claim to do everything from optimizing vaccine distribution to tracing infections to monitoring who has immunity, as tech firms have worked to insert themselves into every facet of the public health fight. But the reality keeps falling short of the sales pitch, and recent debacles with vaccine priority algorithms and contact tracing apps are a warning for what’s coming next as the tech firms are just getting started. With this godsend of a vaccine comes a renewed push for immunity passports, an unproven technology with a racist history that deserves no place in 21st century health care, and a new wave of surveillance tools to monitor our health data.
As acknowledged by reporter Jonathan Keane in CNBC on March 30, “vaccine passports could prove to be a privacy minefield for regulators” that raise concerns over public health ethics. Keane cited Nicole Hassoun, a professor at Binghamton University who specializes in public health and ethics. Hassoun said there are ethical concerns related to how the private sector and government coordinate – and issues pertaining to equality of opportunity in the public square as a result of a tighter regulatory environment.
“We need more data about what the effects on transmission are for people that are vaccinated or people who might have natural immunity, how long will that last? What happens when there are new strains?” Hassoun said. “We need to pay attention to what the private sector is doing as well as what governments are doing and make sure that we regulate if we have to and make sure that they’re fair to everybody.”
Wired Magazine contributor Maryn McKenna, who voiced her excitement over the MLB moving its All-Star Game due to Georgia’s new election law, also raised privacy concerns about vaccine passports on April 2. “The flip side of the problem of exclusion is worries over privacy: Where is the data on vaccination status held, how much gets shared, what will the incentives be to access it inappropriately?” writes McKenna.
Ignoring all this, the intellectually bankrupt corporate media understands the importance of narrative control. The leftist Washington machine is more comfortable acting as if all Democrats stand in solidarity over vaccine passports.
“How the GOP is turning vaccine passports into latest Covid culture war” declared an MSNBC headline on March 30.
“Republicans slam vaccine passports as dystopian, but experts say they’ll help us get back to normal faster,” Business Insider wrote on March 30.
“Republicans go to war over vaccine passports,” said Yahoo News on March 31.
“The GOP is hating on vaccine passports. Take it as a sign the passports are legitimate,” ran a headline in the Los Angeles Times on April 1.
The Atlantic said there is a “sudden conservative outrage over vaccine passports” and “The GOP’s version of freedom puts greater priority on right-wing cultural folkways than on rights of property and ownership.”
Perhaps there is more hesitancy from the political right on vaccine passports. This would make sense, given that conservatism is rooted in a healthy skepticism of government, whereas leftism tends to have no healthy fear of government power and overreach.
But the narrative that it is “only” conservatives not begging the government and corporations to track their data is far from the truth. That’s because vaccine passports are a terrible idea, and some leftists are honest enough to admit it. But not legacy media.
Has HIPAA been Repealed?? If ANY Person or Company Demands I produce a Proof of an Experimental Vaccine, I will SUE THEM!!!
IT IS ILLEGAL TO ASK THESE MEDICAL QUESTIONS
Is the vaccine safer than the Tuckegee experiment ?
I have no idea, I’m not getting either one, and what is a Tuckagee experiment?
Was a government study that targeted a group of people
90+ Million AMERICANS already inoculated with covid-19 vaccines! Largest sample size ever! Has anyone heard of more than 0.01% of those inoculated people falling dead unexpectedly?
Privacy!?
I was asked by every person over 10 years old over Easter what my vaccine status was.
Pshaw.
Polio vaccine was tested several years before public was given vaccine. This vaccine is untested but there are many people willingly already in the test for the untested vaccine.
And what did you tell them?
OIC. Thanks
“The intellectually bankrupt corporate media understands the importance of narrative control. The leftist Washington machine is more comfortable acting as if all Democrats stand in solidarity over vaccine passports.”
Here’s where people are refusing vaccines in the Bay Area:
Andrew Chamings SFGate, San Francisco
A survey of 1,000 registered voters across the Bay Area has revealed significant cultural and geographical differences in coronavirus vaccine opposition.
Samie Hartley:
According to the poll, conducted by the Bay Area Council, a public-policy advocacy organization, of the 57% who said they haven’t yet been vaccinated, 21% said they definitely or probably won’t get vaccinated. This is likely to pose a challenge for public health officials working to end the pandemic by achieving herd immunity, though according the the World Health Organization it is not yet known what percentage of the population needs to be vaccinated to achieve herd immunity against COVID-19.
Residents in the North Bay are least likely to get a vaccine, according to the survey, with nearly one in four adults reluctant to get their shot — around 23% of respondents in Sonoma, Marin, Napa and Solano counties described themselves as “vaccine hesitant.”
San Francisco residents are the mostly likely to get vaccinated in the Bay Area, with only 7% voicing hesitancy in the poll.
Elsewhere, Contra Costa County is at 16%, San Mateo, 15%, Santa Clara, 13% and Alameda at 12%.
Beyond geographical differences across the region, the survey also broke down vaccine opposition across political affiliation, education and ethnicity.
It found that 31% of Republicans say they are hesitant to get vaccinated, compared to 7% of Democrats.
Only 4% of Asian American respondents said they are reluctant to get a shot, compared to 18% of Latinos.
Seven percent of those with a graduate degree expressed opposition to getting vaccinated, while 22% of people with less than a four-year degree are not inclined to get a shot.
Here’s where people are refusing vaccines in the Bay Area: https://www.sfgate.com › bayarea › article › bay-area-c...
A lot of different things translated into don’t ask me any questions and I won’t tell you any lies.
eyeamok wrote:
“Has HIPAA been Repealed?? If ANY Person or Company Demands I produce a Proof of an Experimental Vaccine, I will SUE THEM!!!
IT IS ILLEGAL TO ASK THESE MEDICAL QUESTIONS”
Any time I go to a different Dr or one I haven’t been to for awhile, there is a form to fill out that specifies to whom the info is allowed to be released.
Otherwise, the Dr is not telling them. Period.
In the same fashion, I will not tell or reveal to anybody anything medically related about myself.
I. Will. Not. Comply.
The media is our enemy.
No you won’t. There is no private right of action under HIPAA.
HIPAA has been litigated in court. Over and over again. HIPAA has never had a private cause of action. You can’t sue ANYONE over a HIPAA violation. You can file a complaint with HHS and the government can investigate it, but there isn’t any such thing as a HIPAA private right of action.
“Every district court that has considered this issue is in agreement that the statute does not support a private right of action.” Acara v. Banks, 470 F.3d 569, 571–72 (5th Cir. 2006).
There is no private right of action under HIPAA, express or implied. Meadows v. United Servs., 963 F.3d 240, 242 (2d Cir. 2020).
No private right of action exists under HIPAA in any event, Lucero v. United States, No. 20-1163, 2021 U.S. App. LEXIS 6308, at *6 (10th Cir. Mar. 4, 2021)
HIPAA does not provide an express or implied private right of action... Kittel v. Advantage Physical Therapy, No. 19-55690, 2021 U.S. App. LEXIS 1185, at *3 (9th Cir. Jan. 15, 2021).
HIPAA “provides no private right of action.” Webb v. Smart Document Sols., LLC, 499 F.3d 1078, 1081 (9th Cir. 2007).
There may be State law claims regarding the privacy of medical information, but those are distinct and separate from HIPAA and wouldn’t necessarily apply to a situation like this.
It sounds like you are saying that those demanding private medical information should just be Shot, since there is No other remedy
HIPAA always was toothless, but I wouldn’t suggest that you escalate to murder.
Maybe try saying "no"?
No private entity can force you to reveal anything. Some may not want you to enter their property if you choose not to answer but of course that's their right.
My body.. My choice.
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