Vaccine Passports and Digital ID
An additional piece to the ‘Digital Passports’ posting. Again, as with the governance systems of the world, it is best to walk backwards for this topic. That is, it is too much of a leap for people to simply state that the vaccine passport is just a societal control tool to condition people into digital ID acceptance (which sounded conspiratorial in late 2020). Rather, it is more convincing to illustrate the plans already in place a few years ago for the digital ID and its control features. These are the systems and technologies they already have in place or for which they have plans. Of course, all these plans espouse the ‘convenience’ and ‘benefits’ of using the digital IDs – a good argument. But ask, if ‘they’ tried to launch these in 2019 or earlier, there would be tremendous public pushback due to privacy concerns. Now, with a public sufficiently-frightened by C19, the majority of people like and even demand the passport system.
‘They’ have been working on these plans for some time. Even those groups who only just popped up post-2020 could not have suddenly had these plans due to the pandemic. These setups take years of planning. I may be especially suspicious (or as someone labelled me – ‘cynical’) since I saw the health pass system and digital ID in action in Shenzhen in 2017.
A small list of what ‘they’ are doing:
1. The European Commission, via the Public Health branch, has had rollout plans for digital passports back in 2018 (screenshots at end of article).
2. For North America and the U.K., the “VCI” Vaccination Credential Initiative provides ‘voluntary’ uptake of their digital ID systems, promoting convenience and benefits. Their partners are the big tech usuals - Microsoft, Salesforce, Oracle, the Mayo Clinic and other health and tech heavyweights.
3. Canada has partnered with the World Economic Forum (WEF) to form the KTDI (Known Traveller Digital ID). This may explain why Canada remains the only country left mandating vaccine passports for air and rail international travel (as of early 2022).
4. The World Economic Forum has its digital ID plan outlined here.
5. For a short overview of the WEF plan, Blaze TV has a summary here.
Those are just a few of the digital ID plans already out there, not from conspiracy sites, from their own groups’ plans. You also probably noticed many States, Provinces, and EU countries have announced or launched their own digital ID plans. So, this sets the goal – where they want humanity to be from the top down. Now work back to before the start of the pandemic, when such passport systems were out of the question due to rights and freedoms conflicts (in Western nations).
The system of passports for vaccines was/is mainly for coercion and control. Over the past year (2021-2022), many public health and government officials have stated this almost openly. There have been ‘off-camera leaks’ of the PHO in Israel as well as BC making statements to the effect of ‘well, the passports are more to increase vaccine uptake, that’s all’. It is known and discussed that the current round of C19 mRNA shots do not stop transmission or infection, and so the step to passports to stop spread fails basic logic. Topic for another essay – this one will concentrate on the passports and ID themselves.
‘But the mandates are being lifted and most countries don’t require passports anymore’ (as of early-mid 2022). This does not hold as an argument, because the framework is in place, tested, conformed-to in a wide range, and ready to be enabled any time. If they never get used again, great, entire essay here is moot – yay freedoms and rights. My bet is they are already planning on deploying this, hence these details below.
As of the end of 2021, most Western nations have successfully measured the uptake of the digital vaccine passport, and in most places, it is higher than 80%. The connection between the two (digital ID and vaccine passports) should be obvious and direct. Below you can see the timelines and rollout plans of digital ID systems before and during the C19 pandemic from the government’s own information, as well as the WEF, which essentially provides governance mandates down to the nation states.
A reminder first that the public’s short attention spans regarding privacy, bodily autonomy, and other rights pretty much were brushed aside by most governments. The public, sufficiently numbed by fear in the daily media, capitulated quite easily to the classic ‘giving up liberty for some perceived safety’ trap. Early in 2021 when ‘vaccines’ rolled out, many started asking about the plans for vaccine passports. Most Western leaders responded with a combination of replies: “No plans for them”; “No way we could do this due to inequality issues” etc. Many media analysts (i.e. the cynical ones not in the MSM) rightly pointed out that these mainly planted, pre-canned questions and answers typically serve to get the ideas floating in the public sphere, so that if they get enacted, people are at least used to the idea.
Two small examples of this were from Bonnie Henry and in the U.K., Nadhim Zahawi (Minister of Education). Both said publicly ‘we have no plans for’ (passports), then months later implemented them anyway without debated data or justification.
And Bonnie Henry suddenly brushing aside ‘obvious inequality issues’ and doing an about-face:
It’s entirely possible that this is but one small example of her statement to the effect of ‘if I didn’t go along with the official direction of C19 measures I could be fired’ in her recent book:
“Just like every other chief medical officer of health across the country. I had a mandate and the legal authority to speak to the public about the issues related to health. I was fully aware, however, that if I were wildly off side with what the provincial health minister and government believed, it could make my position challenging, and that if I was too far off the mark too often, the government could render me ineffective or fire me all together.” Bonnie Henry, page 40-41 of “Be Kind, Be Calm, Be Safe: Four Weeks That Shaped a Pandemic.
(In addition, Henry and Horgan of BC still have not addressed any of the questions or challenges made by dozens of health professionals in their open letter here.)
All of these changes and ignoring scrutiny and review was and is aimed at gradually erasing the Western notion of bodily autonomy and liberties of the individual, in favor of shifting the public to a more collectivist society already in place in much of the East.
In addition to this, don’t forget the propaganda and coercion techniques directly applied by governments. Before 2020 these were the hallmarks of what the Nuremberg Trial outcomes intended to guard against. The same people who said passports were a conspiracy now say ‘what’s the big deal, quit being so selfish’:
Almost all nations barred citizens from entering public spaces, events, restaurants and other venues without a passport.
Many leaders labelled those without passports as ‘selfish’ and those with passports as ‘good citizens deserving their freedoms’. When a ‘freedom’ is only obtained with coercion and then granted back to you, it becomes a ‘privilege’.
Most countries allowed and enforced the firing of employees who did not show their passport status. This includes people who 100% work from home and/or had natural immunity from prior infection.
Many regions like Austria, Quebec and others implemented or threatened fines for people who did not take the vaccines/get their passports. Again, this is direct coercion previously unheard of.
Israel took the lead in moving the status of ‘vaccinated’. The passport system there was set to show ‘fully vaccinated’ as 2 doses. It then moved to 3 doses, and now has hit 4 doses. It is no coincidence that many leaders now refer to your status as being ‘up to date’, which is endless.
In a BC Parks and Recreation transcript, it was remarked: "Remember, the purpose of the PoV card is to incentivize residents to be vaccinated, not to control the spread of the virus." "This is an important shift to keep aware of for your decision-making; the province has shifted from actions that provide a COVID-safe environment to actions that provide discretionary services to the vaccinated." "The vaccine passport requires people to be vaccinated to do certain discretionary activities such as go to restaurants, movies, gyms, not because these places are high risk. We are not actually seeing covid transmission in these settings. "It really is to create an incentive to improve our vaccination coverage…. The vaccine passport is for non-essential opportunities, and it's really to create an incentive to get higher vaccination rates.” - Patricia Daly, Chief Medical Health Officer for Vancouver Coastal Health, Oct. 2021.
Even a letter to UBC from the Coastal Health Office to UBC, regarding UBC requirement for students (even remote) to show proof of vaccine passports else be ejected supports this:
Full letter source here.
You could argue this is again the ‘noble lie’. Tricking the public into doing what someone else has deemed for your own good without you knowing it. Such ‘noble lies’ in public health are usually done with well-proven therapies with long-term safety and efficacy profiles. Something the mRNA treatments have none of.
The more important aspect of this rollout was that this acted as a referendum of sorts for the Western populations. The masses voted, with their behavior and compliance, that they agree to have what used to be basic inalienable rights (movement, assembly, etc.) revoked by a government (who does not own these rights in the first place), and only granted back to them as privileges, provided people give up privacy and, in this case, take an injection (or 2 or 4 or who knows?)
Many also point out that almost all nations have ended their vaccine passport requirements for freedom of movement. And some further point out that many of the ‘Red States’ in the USA never even had them. Again, the important aspect is that the framework is in place, tested, and ready to roll out. Add to this, the multiple, national-level digital ID plans already there as noted above.
The USA rollout, for example, builds a national network regardless of the State-level ones. And many ‘Red States’ that refused vaccine passport controls are signed on to this national agreement.
A National Vaccine Pass Has Quietly Rolled Out – And Red States Are Getting On Board (forbes.com)
Another aspect of mandates on kids and young adults is to normalize government interventions as a default mode for an entire generation. Kids as young as 5 years old now will, by the year 2030, never have known any other world other than the one where the government is their savior and holds their safety and lives in their hands. It is almost normalized now that kids as young as 12 years old cannot even participate in society without a mobile phone.
To conclude, the digital ID, via the vaccine passport system already widely-accepted, serves to gradually move entire next generations away from the notion of bodily autonomy and liberty of the individual, towards a digital collectivist society. Reaching this point over 2 years via fear campaigns and demonizing unvaccinated as ‘others’ and ‘selfish’, makes it too difficult for younger people to stick with the principles many in the West used to cherish. It is easier to stay in the ‘group’, signal your adherence via the literal ‘green = go’ status on your phone, and stick with the narrative. It’s not the total social credit system as tested and deployed in China, but it is certainly many steps towards it. It reflects a ‘leveling-down’ of Western societal traits that allowed one to excel based on their ability and experience.
The digital ID ties directly to the next steps towards 2030 – the programmable digital currency tied to your ID and your ‘health status’ via QR code status on your mobile. In parallel, it accelerates and enhances the push to move more of our lives online to the virtual world – where aspects of transhumanism are ushered in. The common connection, again, is that these systems allow for much greater control of people. Control for some ‘greater good’ that is either all about climate catastrophes, pandemics, or something else?
Excerpt from the European Commission Health Branch on digital ID and vaccine status, from 2018:
“SMART HEALTHCARD” uptake as of 2022 (from the Vaccine Initiative):
