Good news. It seems that, given both Texas and Florida governors are barring the use of vaccine passports (along with other pressures),
the Biden Administration announced yesterday that it does not endorse the use of vaccine passports.
Of course, New York City still has its "Excelsior Pass," which is looking to be a total failure, in any event. Check this out:
NY's vaccine pass is plagued with privacy failures as anyone can access someone else's health records
Yes, A.I. is taking the world by storm! Ha! They can't even design an app that vaccination recipients (who are even down for losing their own civil liberties) are able to successfully make use of. What a bunch of dopes.
Excerpt from Reclaim The Net article:
It doesn’t help that New York chose IBM and its “blockchain” platform as the backbone of Excelsior Pass just as reports in February suggested that the company’s blockchain effort was a complete financial failure, missing revenue targets by 90%, while the majority of its blockchain team is now gone.
And Excelsior Pass has poor security in place, allowing anyone to check a person’s eligibility and access their Covid-related health records through the app simply by entering their name, date of birth and ZIP code.
After this, more “relatively easily obtained information” is required to verify identity, The Dossier writes. “Even if you get some questions wrong, it appears that you can go back in and answer an unlimited amount of times until you get the right combination,” said the report.
Interesting to note, the article also mentions how the WHO is now saying it
isn't recommending vaccine passports
at this time given they are unsure whether the vaccine is going to prevent the spread of Covid. This also goes to what vaccine critics are saying, that the vaccine will cause a far more lethal outbreak (which is no doubt what the WHO has in mind). So, yeah (thinks the WHO), who cares about vaccine passports when massive genocide is on the horizon? (I really hope and pray that's not the case.)
(sigh)
But back to New York State's elitist sounding "Excelsior Pass." (My God, it sounds like
American Express Platinum.) Seems it's supposed to be used for large scale events for places like Madison Square Garden, at least initially. Sites online promoting its use also mention plane travel, so one should not be fooled by the opening roll out description, which seems limited to large-scale events. But all of this has me wondering: how can a blue state like New York get away with imposing a vaccine card when their blue man in the White House isn't? How does that work exactly?
Anyway, given how poorly the Excelsior card is doing, it's somehow heartening to see that these technological geniuses have marbles for brains. Yes, the use of A.I. is posing a threat, one that is going to march on, regardless. However, as per IBM's abysmal foray into "blockchain," we have still to see how these numb nuts are going to pull off their Big Tech dystopia. It certainly won't happen overnight, or at all smoothly, it seems. And there are plenty of people concerned about civil liberties who are pushing back. So, it will be interesting to see how these things play out in the United States as events unfold.
I think another reason the Biden Administration nixed the vaccine passport idea is that they would be up against states' rights to bar such measures. It's already true that people are moving to these two states (Florida and Texas) in unprecedented numbers for just such "state's rights" reasons. If the federal government pushed for vaccine passports, which these two states (and no doubt others in the future) have barred, this will cause even more people to abandon "blue" America for the liberties offered in these red states. And while the powers that be promote "division," they may not like the idea that
this form of division strengthens red state citizens, and will set an example that on-the-fence liberals are going to notice, and no doubt be influenced by.
Along these lines, Trump is asking people to boycott not just Major League Baseball, which has gone against the election reform bill passed in Georgia, but also "woke" companies, like
Coca Cola. Now
that's a big deal. If 75 million Americans stopped buying Coke that would really be something. Talk about sports, think of the sport of watching Coke's stock plummet! Although I don't drink Coke myself (never have), I'm considering leaving Citibank given Citigroup is also on the list -- well, for other reasons as well. Catherine Austin Fitts suggests putting one's money in local banks, and really attempting to go "local" in as many ways as possible, given what she sees as impending financial collapse (not that that wouldn't affect local banks, unless local banks could somehow hedge against the big guys, if that's even possible).
Delta is another company Trump has given the thumbs down to. There are others as well. It's quite a list, and indicates that Republicans, led by Trump, are finally using Democrat tactics to fight back. All very interesting to witness.
Some are saying Governor DeSantis of Florida, who has re-opened the state with no ill effects, and managed Covid, including protecting the elderly, quite effectively -- oh, and now is barring the use of vaccination cards -- may run for president in 2024. That's why he's under attack -- by 60 Minutes most recently, if you want to do a search. Seems they framed him by editing out crucial parts of the interview (surprise surprise).
So, things are shifting. Perhaps Trump will remain in more of an advisory position, as opposed to running again. Of course, first things first. Central to their strategy is election reform so that Republicans stand a chance in 2022; on par with election reform may be this new boycotting strategy, which is a pretty smart move, I have to say. It's flexing the economic muscle of the "excluded" 75 million Trump supporters, so let's see how it all pans out.