I’m really uneasy about that....showed my vaccination card and got an armband allowing me to skip some lines...
Ya I just showed my vaccination card and didn't have to get tested for covid when I got to Hawaii.I’m really uneasy about that.
California has just rolled out a government database in which your conformance record is accessed via a QR code, or square barcode. You can show the scannable code on your phone or print it out as a sticker that can be attached to your ID. It is called the DCVR. I’m not joking. The geniuses who came up with this program decided to call it the DeCeiVeR. It stands for Digital Covid-19 Vaccine Record.
Currently it holds your vaccination status, personally identifying information, and your photo. The QR code needs to be presented and scanned before being allowed to enter any venue with a capacity over 5,000 people. To be clear, I am extremely pro-vaccine but I find it deeply concerning that the government can decide to revoke your ability to access private property.
The program is being run by the California Department of Public Health, and there is nothing stopping them from expanding the records beyond the C-19 vaccine to include other “threats to public health”. Do you generate too much CO2? Has anyone thought something you said or liked was racist? Both of those things have been said to be threats to public health.
There is also nothing preventing the Public Health Department from expanding the controlled areas to everywhere they have jurisdiction. The Second Amendment may protect your right to own guns but you don’t have a Constitutional right to eat at restaurants, so the Department of Public Health could shut down any restaurant that served gun owners.
Give it 5-10 years. Things like this always start small and usually for a justifiable reason that everyone can get behind, but once the tool is in the toolbox there will be others who believe that tool can be put to good use beyond its originally intended purpose. I've been around long enough to see ideas dismissed today can become deadly serious in barely a handful of years.They didn't care about racist comments or how much co2 or anything.
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Give some examples of this happening and how it's negatively effecting people.Give it 5-10 years. Things like this always start small and usually for a justifiable reason that everyone can get behind, but once the tool is in the toolbox there will be others who believe that tool can be put to good use beyond its originally intended purpose. I've been around long enough to see ideas dismissed today can become deadly serious in barely a handful of years.
As I write this, there have been 209 municipalities and states that have declared racism a public health crisis or public health emergency. People are inventive. It is only a matter of time until someone sees that tool created to help in a time of a public health emergency and thinks it may be able to help stomp out another public health emergency.
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Racism Declarations
Across the country, local and state leaders are declaring racism a public health crisis or emergency.www.apha.org
I can think of many examples, but to start let’s go with the student loan constructs that have caused education costs to skyrocket and indebted a generation at a time of their life when they should be starting families and buying houses.Give some examples of this happening and how it's negatively effecting people.
Because the term “emergency” is arbitrary. Anything can be declared an emergency. If an emergency can be used to deny your rights as a citizen then they aren’t rights. If that type of authoritarian control for the public good is your cup of tea then you may seriously want to consider heading to China where they have a fully implemented system. If you have an inadequate government score then you cannot use public transportation, are denied permission to travel, etc. If your score drops too low they’ll be happy to escort to you an indoor/outdoor education facility.Oh and it's only a matter of time until someone uses something to help stomp out another public health emergency? This would be bad why? I like when public health emergencies are stomped out. You like public health emergencies to just continue without resistance?
Among other things, education costs are rising because student residence standards are rising, because more support is being offered as the percentage of the population graduating college is rising, and because state and local governments are cutting back on supporting public education. The amounts borrowed have increased to keep pace, but you have the causation reversed.I can think of many examples, but to start let’s go with the student loan constructs that have caused education costs to skyrocket and indebted a generation at a time of their life when they should be starting families and buying houses.
Scaremongering.Because the term “emergency” is arbitrary.
The 1800s were a very different time, with a much more libertarian notion of government. You oppose that, right?The schools do still teach about Missouri Executive Order 44, don’t they?
Lin-Manuel Miranda disagrees, having publicly supported the efforts of the critics and saying they have a good point. He doesn't seem to feel unsafe.The big problem with lumping racism into the category of an emergency that must be stomped out with the heel of a government’s boot, is that the concept is so fluid. If Lin-Manuel Miranda can be tarred as racist for not having enough Afro-Latinos in his latest show, then no one is safe.
Do you think he’d feel safer if there was a government agency he could be reported to who could strip his rights on account of his "public health violation" during this time of public health emergency?Lin-Manuel Miranda disagrees, having publicly supported the efforts of the critics and saying they have a good point. He doesn't seem to feel unsafe.
*moot, and you aren't using it correctlyDude, he could probably provide you a hundred links to different pieces throughout history about the efficacy of certain vaccines but we all know you’d turn around and declare them mute because of them being done by corporations, the MSM, specials interests and similar strife.
So just go on believing whatever you want and stay safe out there.
So far, I'm not aware of rights that have ever been stripped during a public health emergency. What sorts of rights would these potentially be? Again, this is blatant fear-mongering.Do you think he’d feel safer if there was a government agency he could be reported to who could strip his rights on account of his "public health violation" during this time of public health emergency?
Give it 5-10 years. Things like this always start small and usually for a justifiable reason that everyone can get behind, but once the tool is in the toolbox there will be others who believe that tool can be put to good use beyond its originally intended purpose. I've been around long enough to see ideas dismissed today can become deadly serious in barely a handful of years.
As I write this, there have been 209 municipalities and states that have declared racism a public health crisis or public health emergency. People are inventive. It is only a matter of time until someone sees that tool created to help in a time of a public health emergency and thinks it may be able to help stomp out another public health emergency.
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Racism Declarations
Across the country, local and state leaders are declaring racism a public health crisis or emergency.www.apha.org