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Anyone who thinks that government and Big Tech are going to setup a platform just for this one disease and just for the duration of the pandemic are simply not fit to vote in a free country. This is the beginnings of a social credit system, à la China/Gattaca.


I saw the same connection, moral judgment passed on a citizen's personal, perfectly legal choices, by the government that leads to the restriction of that person's right to engage in society. This is to say nothing of the Orwellian tracking by the (soon to be I'm sure) required NYC or State pass on your phone.


Well, here in the civilised world where we’re about done with the vaccination we’re also almost done with the restrictions and required proof of vaccination/recent test.

Of course we can both be right. I mean, if you can’t achieve herd immunity for some reason, then you can never really stop the requirement for proof either. But then, if a country has so many adult babies that it can’t achieve hers immunity through vaccination during a pandemic, maybe it needs to be run like a kindergarten (which you coincidentally can’t attend unless you’re vaccinated).




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