Posted on 08/09/2021 1:45:43 PM PDT by absalom01
The push for vaccine passports is primarily driven by the thought that it will hurt Donald Trump supporters the most. Liberals seem to relish the idea of seeing deplorables kicked out of restaurants and forced to beg for food. They especially like the idea of all of them being placed alongside terrorists on the no-fly list. Former Homeland Security assistant secretary Juliette Kayyem made this case in The Atlantic last week, arguing that “flying is not a right.” (The original headline for the op-ed said unvaccinated people “belong on the no-fly list.” The revised title merely says they should “bear the burden.”)
“For the privilege of flying, Americans already give up a lot: We disclose our personal information, toss our water bottles, extinguish our cigarette butts, and lock our guns in checked luggage. For vaccinated people, having to show proof of vaccination when flying would be a minor inconvenience,” Kayyem writes. It would be a minor inconvenience, certainly, for a woman who calls Trump supporters “domestic terrorists” to enjoy her unfettered right to travel while denying her enemies the same right.
The government and media help stir up popular anger at the unvaccinated, planting the idea that those who refuse the experimental vaccine should lose their rights. The propaganda appears to be working, as a narrow majority of the public backs a vaccine mandate to travel, work, and go to school. Democrats, of course, are the most supportive of such measures.
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It doesn’t need to make sense. Vax passports promise to hurt Democrats’ enemies while voter ID laws harm their friends and interests. That’s all that matters. That’s life under anarcho-tyranny.
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This crap will end when the First State Mandates the Exact same rules for
HIV
AIDS
Hepatitis B
Hepatitis C
Syphilis
Gonorrhea
Crabs
Lice
or ANY Other Communicable Disease
I no longer fly commercial. Only have a regular state ID. No real ID. Don’t care.
I just became familiar with the term anarcho-tyranny. It is the perfect description of the USA, of our current political state. We are no longer a republic, we are ruled by elites in an anarcho-tyranny. It won’t last.
Good luck running a restaurant or a cruise line by kicking out (a minimum) of 30% of your potential customers on top of the people who are going to avoid large crowd even if they are vaccinated.
Though I won’t be surprised when they get a government bail out
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