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Are Vaccine Passports About to Go Totally Global?


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2022 Mar 1, 5:13am   1,702 views  23 comments

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As the world is transfixed by the escalating war in Ukraine and its economic fallout, big moves concerning vaccine passports are taking place behind closed doors.

An article published last Thursday by Politico, citing a source from the so-called Vaccine Credential Initiative (VCI™), reported that the World Health Organization is poised to convene member States and representatives of Covid-19 immunization credential technology groups to recognize different vaccine certificates across nations and regions. In other words, as countries around the world drop almost all of their COVID-19 public health measures, it looks like digital vaccine passports are going to be made not just universal but permanent (as I warned would happen in April 2021):

The WHO is bringing together the groups to develop a “trust framework” that would allow countries to verify whether vaccine credentials are legitimate, said Brian Anderson, chief digital health physician at MITRE and a co-founder of the VCI.

Why it matters: The effort would aid international travel by allowing proof of vaccination to be more easilyshared and verified, Anderson said. Many countries and regions have different standards for proof of inoculation, creating confusion for travelers and officials.

“It’s piecemeal, not coordinated and done nation to nation,” Anderson said. “It can be a real challenge.”

The WHO would say only that news on the topic should be coming “soon.”

The VCI is behind SMART Health Cards, which have become the de facto standard for digital vaccine credentials in the U.S., with dozens of states developing or adopting the technology. The group will participate in the initiative.

The Vaccine Credentials Initiative (VCI™) is one of a number of private partnerships working to harmonize vaccine passport standards and systems at a global level. The VCI™ is leading the development and implementation of the open-source SMART Health Card Framework and specifications. Its partners include U.S. government contractor MITRE Corporation, Amazon Web Services, Microsoft, Oracle, Sales Force and Mayo Clinic.

According to its own website, the VCI™ has helped to implement SMART health cards in 15 jurisdictions: the United States, the United Kingdom, Canada, the United Arab Emirates, Japan, Hong Kong, Israel, the Cayman Islands, Puerto Rico, Singapore, Senegal, Qatar, Rwanda, North Macedonia and Aruba. It has also helped to “quietly” roll out digital vaccine certificates across 21 US states, as Forbes recently reported:

While the United States government has not issued a federal digital vaccine pass, a national standard has nevertheless emerged. To date, 21 states, the District of Columbia and Puerto Rico offer accessibility to the SMART Health Card, a verifiable digital proof of vaccination developed through the Vaccination Credential Initiative (VCI), a global coalition of public and private stakeholders…

And very soon, at least four more states will be rolling out access to SMART Health Cards. “We’ve seen a notable uptick in states that have officially launched public portals where individuals can get verifiable vaccination credentials in the form of SMART Health Cards with a QR code,” says Dr. Brian Anderson, co-founder of the VCI and chief digital health physician at MITRE.

Another global partnership seeking to standardize vaccine passports is the Commons Project Foundation (CPJ), which was founded by the Rockefeller Foundation and is supported by the World Economic Forum.

There is also the Good Health Pass Collaborative, which was founded last year by Mastercard, IBM, Grameen Foundation and the International Chamber of Commerce. The organization is the brainchild of the world’s largest digital identity advocacy group, the New York-based ID2020 Alliance, which itself was set up in 2016 with seed money from Microsoft, Accenture, PwC, the Rockefeller Foundation, Cisco and Gavi, the Vaccine Alliance. The ID2020 Alliance’s goal is to “enable access to digital identity for every person on the planet.”

WHO Changing Course

This is all happening as the general messaging around vaccine passports in most countries is that they are on their way out, at least for domestic purposes, as we all return to some semblance of normality. The vaccine passports are moving to the backburner — at least that’s what we are being told. But at the same time, governments, companies and supranational governing entities are working behind the scenes to extend the use of vaccine passports for all international travel, in the process making them a permanent feature of the global legal landscape.

According to the Politico article, the World Health Organization, after publicly opposing vaccine passports for more than a year, is ready to lend its endorsement. If true, it represents a sea change in policy.

Just over a month ago, at the tenth meeting of the International Health Regulations (2005) Emergency Committee regarding the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) pandemic, the WHO reiterated its opposition to vaccine passports, urging states “NOT… to require proof of vaccination against COVID-19 for international travel as the only pathway or condition permitting international travel given limited global access and inequitable distribution of COVID-19 vaccines.”

Now, just over a month later, that opposition appears to be crumbling — and not just according to VCI™. On February 23, T-Systems, the IT services arm of Deutsche Telekom, announced in a press release that it had been chosen by the WHO as an “industry partner” in the introduction of digital vaccine passports as a standard procedure not only for COVID-19 vaccines but also “other vaccinations such as polio or yellow fever, across 193 countries” as well as presumably other vaccines that come on line in the future:

The World Health Organization (WHO) will make it easier for its member states to introduce digital vaccination certificates in the future. The WHO is setting up a gateway for this purpose. It enables QR codes on electronic vaccination certificates to be checked across national borders. It is intended to serve as a standard procedure for other vaccinations such as polio or yellow fever after COVID-19. The WHO has selected T-Systems as an industry partner to develop the vaccination validation services.

Garrett Mehl, Unit Head, WHO Department of Digital Health and Innovation, said: “COVID-19 affects everyone. Countries will therefore only emerge from the pandemic together. Vaccination certificates that are tamper-proof and digitally verifiable build trust. WHO is therefore supporting member states in building national and regional trust networks and verification technology. The WHO’s gateway service also serves as a bridge between regional systems. It can also be used as part of future vaccination campaigns and home-based records.”

Adel Al-Saleh, Member of the Deutsche Telekom AG Board of Management and CEO T-Systems, explained: “Corona has a grip on the world. Digitization keeps the world running. Digital vaccination certificates like the EU’s are key to this. We are pleased to be able to support the WHO in the fight against the pandemic. Health is a strategic growth area for T-Systems. Winning this contract underscores our commitment to the industry.”

The timing of the WHO’s purported policy reversal is certainly curious given that back in April 2021 the organization said it was not yet ready to commit to vaccine passports because it was not yet clear whether the vaccines actually prevented transmission of the virus.

“We at WHO are saying at this stage we would not like to see the vaccination passport as a requirement for entry or exit because we are not certain at this stage that the vaccine prevents transmission,” WHO spokeswoman Margaret Harris said at a UN news briefing. “There are all those other questions, apart from the question of discrimination against the people who are not able to have the vaccine for one reason or another.”

Now that we know for sure that the COVID-19 vaccines do not prevent transmission of COVID-19 (and recent public health data from Scotland, England and Denmark suggest they may actually exacerbate it), the WHO apparently feel that now is an ideal time to endorse vaccine passports for global travel. This is happening less than two months after the region of the world with the highest per-capita take up of vaccine passports, Europe, was the epicenter of the Omicron wave. It’s also happening as concerns are quickly growing about the safety of the mRNA vaccines for COVID-19.

Closing All Borders for the Unvaccinated

If the WHO does reverse policy on vaccine passports and its 193 member countries follow the organization’s new guidelines and implement vaccine passport systems, it will presumably mean that anyone who is not up to date with their vaccine schedule will not be able to cross international borders in the future. And that would essentially mean the end of two fundamental ethical principles underpinning modern medicine: bodily autonomy (the right to make decisions over one’s own life and future); and bodily integrity (the right to self-ownership and self-determination over one’s own body).

And all for the sake of vaccines that now offer virtually no protection against transmission or infection of COVID-19 and whose safety profile is looking increasingly checkered. There are plenty of other reasons why we should worry about the mandatory application of vaccine passports for global travel, including the threat they pose to our privacy; the additional surveillance powers they grant to governments and corporations; the heightened risk that our most personal data, including our health information and biometric identifiers, could be hacked; the polarizing, discriminatory and segregational effects vaccine passports are already having across society, affecting already marginalized groups the most; and the threat they pose to many of our most basic rights and freedoms.

For the moment the WHO’s legal framework – the so-called International Health Regulations (IHR) – does not grant the organization inspection, policing or enforcement powers against its member States. In other words, it cannot force member States to follow its guidelines. But that could also be about to change. As the Politico article reports, talks are under way to establish a “global pandemic treaty” that will give the WHO more powers to “strengthen pandemic prevention, preparedness and response.”

The U.S. government, the WHO’s biggest donor, “has been involved in backdoor discussions with the WHO on the treaty and how to strengthen the organization,” notes the article. The proposed amendments “would require swift action by countries and the WHO during an emergency and give the WHO greater powers to act during a crisis.” In other words, the WHO could soon be given much sharper teeth when it comes to shaping global health policy.

As I note in my upcoming book Scanned: Why Vaccine Passports and Digital ID Will Mean the End of Privacy and Personal Freedom, there is a case to be made for establishing pandemic control processes and standards at a global level, especially given how badly many national governments have responded to the COVID-19 pandemic and how poorly they have coordinated their containment efforts:

However, a centralized global pandemic response under the auspices of an organization like the WHO will mean that health authorities will be even less answerable to local populations. One thing that is clear is that the WHO, in its current form, is not the body to do it.

The organization has already done a shoddy enough job of combatting the current pandemic. For example, it failed to recognize that the COVID-19 virus was an airborne disease until far too late. It also fought, at every step, to discourage national health authorities from using cheap, off-patent medicines… in the early treatment of COVID-19 patients. The WHO is also heavily conflicted by the donations it receives from private companies, many in the pharmaceutical industry, and private trusts, such as the Gates and Rockefeller foundations, both at the forefront of efforts to push global digital identity on the world’s population. Those donations now account for 80 percent of the organization’s funding.

It seems those companies now want more bang for their buck. The Global Business Coalition — whose members include the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, BusinessEurope, the Confederation of Indian Industry and others across six continents — recently sent a letter to the WHO requesting even more of a say in the agency’s decisions. “The current pandemic represents a paradigm shift in the way governments, business, and civil society forge deep bonds to respond to emergency situations and to develop sustainable health policies,” the coalition wrote.

https://www.nakedcapitalism.com/2022/03/are-vaccine-passports-about-to-go-truly-global.html?source=patrick.net


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1   Patrick   2022 Mar 1, 5:14am  

It's like they just won't give up until the public hangs all of them.
2   Patrick   2022 Mar 5, 12:29pm  

https://boriquagato.substack.com/p/if-i-were-going-to-conquer-you



this can easily be passed off as “streamlining” and “creating standards to make this easy” but that is, of course, ancillary. this is about having one, single, verified and digitally validated means of control.

this will be the mandated digital ID and it can be expanded rapidly to include anything and everything. it is the edifice of inescapable subjugation and many of the pieces are already in place.

vaccines will be sold as “safety” and you’ll need annual or bi-annual boosters to stay current. this means that i can shut you out of society by just doing nothing. it is up to you to take actions that i dictate. you have to run to stand still. stop, and you fall off the treadmill.

now you cannot get away.

the TSA working together with CDC can ban you from travel. this is a potent tool that was not used aggressively last time.

"Secure Flight also prevents individuals on the No Fly List and Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Do Not Board List from boarding an aircraft."
4   Patrick   2022 Mar 11, 12:19pm  

Saw two interesting articles in the local paper today.

One was about a woman who went to the police because she said she was raped. After taking DNA samples from her, they later arrested her because her own DNA matched evidence taken in a burglary. She is almost certainly the burglar, but is suing. Is she in the right on this? I'm not entirely sure.

The other one was about illegal immigrants suing because they were given cellphones and released pending court appearance. When they didn't show up, the phones they were given were used to track them down, lol. I think the police are within their rights to use these free phones for that purpose.
5   HeadSet   2022 Mar 11, 6:06pm  

Patrick says
One was about a woman who went to the police because she said she was raped. After taking DNA samples from her, they later arrested her because her own DNA matched evidence taken in a burglary.

Ok, this smells funny. When the cops take DNA samples from a rape, they want the DNA of the rapist, not the victim. I do not think the DNA in the rapist's sperm tied this lady to a burglary.
6   Onvacation   2022 Mar 11, 6:42pm  

HeadSet says
Ok, this smells funny. When the cops take DNA samples from a rape,

They need her DNA to eliminate it from the sample.

At least that's what I heard on some crime show.
7   Patrick   2022 Mar 11, 6:51pm  

I'm pretty sure they will get a mix of her and the rapist's DNA, but can easily distinguish a woman.
9   Patrick   2022 Mar 28, 9:57am  

https://home.solari.com/22-ways-to-stop-vaccine-id-passports-in-2022-and-why-we-must/?source=patrick.net


1) DO NOT COMPLY. Do not be coerced, bribed, blackmailed, shamed, guilted, manipulated, or intimidated into complying. Civil disobedience is necessary. Businesses and patrons need to rally together to defy this tyranny.

2) Contact your investment advisor or asset manager, give them a list of companies involved in making the vaccine ID passports and pushing the agenda, and tell them you want all of these companies screened out of your savings because you do not wish to finance your own prison. See the list at the end of part 4 in my vaccine passport series here. If you are dating or communicating with someone who works for any of these companies that are building our prison, you might consider the Lysistrata strategy. In times of war, all strategies must be considered to beat the enemy.

3) Vaccine ID Passports, digital identities being pushed by banks, driver’s license facilities, and other industries as a means for “access” or “convenience” should be avoided at all cost.

4) Make everyone you know aware of what this QR code and digital identity is really about, and how they intend to put you on the Blockchain to surveil and control your every move.

5) Get your sheriffs on board. While tyrannical governors and mayors may try to make illogical and illegal demands on business owners and patrons, including fines in some cases, the sheriff has the power to choose to not enforce it. Mayors are moving quickly on trying to instill demands on businesses. There are 3,081 sheriffs in the U.S. They all need to be contacted by phone, email, and mail. Many of them do not understand the full power that they have and policies they can put in place. I recommend directing them to KrisAnne Hall, a constitutional lawyer who has worked with hundreds of sheriffs, empowering them with information to fight this tyranny, through conferences and one-on-one.

6) Posting small truth statements around communities via flyers, postcards, stickers, or swag with a message. In the words of the corrupt globalists, “flood the message.”

7) When entering an establishment that is demanding to see proof of a jab or negative test, provide them with a card that states, “I will not be a human experiment of a gene therapy jab for a virus that has a 99.98% survival rate,” and do not support that establishment.

8) Bringing this information to the attention of your legislatures and demanding legislation to block vaccine id passports and digital identity applications is critical. Here is a Model Bill you can copy and paste into a document to attach in an email to your state representative requesting that he/she sponsor it in your state. Some states have already done this. Consider donating to litigators and state legislators who are actually taking action to stop vaccine ID passports and jab mandates.

9) Remove your money from the large banks into smaller, family-owned banks and small credit unions. If 10% of people did this, it would create a huge shift.

10) Build your own family or community energy and food systems. Resilient energy and food supplies will go a long way against their digital financial blackmailing systems.

11) BOYCOTT: Stop feeding the beast – do not spend money at Amazon (here’s why), and big box stores that are building the infrastructure to enslave humanity. When you hurt their bottom line, they are more apt to reverse their demands for employees and patrons. Here are some alternative options.

12) CASH IS KING. Use cash as often as possible, to avoid the hyper-tracking taking place inside bank accounts that are aggregating your data and building your social and climate score, as well as studying spending behaviors of the masses to manipulate industries, supply chains, and markets.

13) Leave your phones at home. Don’t download any data tracking apps, and if you still have a smartphone be sure to stay on top of what data mining apps they are installing into your phone without you even knowing.

14) Limit personal data you provide online, in paper forms, and other sources trying to collect data points on you.

15) Stop the Federal Vaccine Database Bill H.R. 550 by calling your senators and demanding they oppose it and all other bills that infringe on our medical privacy and expands federal power. It passed the House on November 30, 2021 and is pending in the Senate.

16) Purchasing any products with the word “Smart” in it, isn’t so smart. These products are all used for surveillance purposes via audio, some visual, and data aggregating, not to mention potential integrated mind control technologies. Get Alexa out of your home, and that digital flat screen tv that is spying on you. Here is a checklist of tips for how to better protect yourself when it comes to technology.

17) Here are 5 ways to financial security while building thriving communities outside the system.

18) Clear as many debts as you are able to so you are beholden to no one. Invest in people, learning trade skills, family and community, hard assets, proper schooling for your children which might mean a local homeschool network, local farmers, any necessary supplies or equipment you feel you need, your health and peace of mind.

19) Be sure to bookmark this Covid Resources page where you will find medical, legal, forms, job boards, and information pertaining to fighting this tyranny. Also bookmark this Resource on tracking legal action and legislation against Covid-19 mandates. These are all very helpful tools to have.

20) While the injection is still in the stage of Emergency Use Authorization, it is not legal to require a person to get the injection, and “informed consent” is the law. Though the FDA has approved Pfizer’s Comirnaty jab, Pfizer has chosen to not yet produce it for the U.S., and instead are continuing to supply the EUA jab.

21) As more and more people realize the adverse events and deaths taking place after receiving the jab, they are choosing to not get the boosters. Be there for them. Help them through it and find medical professionals that are aware of what is happening and will assist them.

22) Visualize a better future for all, where these corrupt individuals are stopped in their tracks, and Pray.
11   Hircus   2022 May 19, 10:39pm  

Patrick says

When they didn't show up, the phones they were given were used to track them down, lol.


I heard about the free phones and assumed they would track them. haha.

This also makes me think back to obama phones. At the time I didn't suspect anything, but now I bet it too was a tracking program.
12   Patrick   2022 May 19, 10:59pm  

Beware of "free phones".

My brother-in-law was a cop in Detroit. He told me that the police had a hard time picking up guys who had warrants out for their arrest, so the police just mailed "You have won a free phone" postcards to all of them. A lot of them showed up at a certain address to get their "free phones", actually showed ID to prove who they were, and were then arrested. Even then, some of them didn't figure it out and wanted to know when they would get their free phones.

Another lesson I learned from him: the police are under no legal obligation to tell you the truth.
18   Al_Sharpton_for_President   2022 Jul 12, 5:18am  

España y la OCDE impulsan la unificación de certificados covid en el mundo.

(Spain and the OECD promote the unification of covid certificates in the world.)

https://www.efe.com/efe/espana/politica/espana-y-la-ocde-impulsan-unificacion-de-certificados-covid-en-el-mundo/10002-4847183
19   Onvacation   2022 Jul 12, 5:34am  

Fuck them. If they're afraid of a cold they should stay home.
20   richwicks   2022 Jul 12, 6:18am  

Patrick says

Another lesson I learned from him: the police are under no legal obligation to tell you the truth.


If you ever get arrested for whatever reason, don't talk to the cops. Ask for a lawyer immediately. Cop has no problem framing you, seriously. Anything you say to a cop can and will be used against you, NOTHING you say to a police officer will be used to help you, ever. You cannot call on the police in a trial for evidence. They will exclusively testify against you.

And that's right, the police have no obligation to tell the truth.

Say somebody was murdered, and you are brought into questioning. They can pull shit like "Well, how did we find your hair at the victims place? There were also shoe prints that match yours" - questions like these from an interrogator can (and often are) complete bullshit, and if you try to come up with explanations, you're simply implicating yourself. It won't make any difference in court that your hair wasn't found there, nor were your shoe prints. The only thing that will be revealed in court is that you explained to the police how your hair and shoe prints ended up there.

NOTHING you say to a police officer will be used to help exonerate you. Your statement will only be used against you. Even if your interview is recorded, there's no obligation of the police to provide it to the court.
21   Patrick   2022 Sep 12, 8:00am  

https://nitter.pussthecat.org/ViralNewsNYC/status/1569082695212310529#m


Viral News NY
@ViralNewsNYC
16h
Earlier today activists against mandates rallied outside Trinity Church in lower Manhattan due to the Church still checking for vax cards. Activists confront the Priest of the church and ask him to let them in.
23   Al_Sharpton_for_President   2022 Nov 18, 3:59am  

G20 - BREAKING: leaders have just signed a declaration which states that vaccine passports will be adopted to “facilitate” all international travel

This means any vaccination the WHO determines you should have.

Changing your rights & freedoms forever.

Silence from the media.



https://twitter.com/BernieSpofforth/status/1593158578071736320/photo/1

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