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Danger to Society: Vaccine Passports

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Candidate A: "I'm going to throw you out of your job, school, and social life if you don't take the drug I order that won't make you any less infectious and you think might harm you."

Candidate B: "I won't do that."

What is A offering that'll overcome that? Good thing s/he is offering a fabulous program of healthcare, housing, and jobs to compensate for firing you. Ha.

Who is going to be most motivated to vote? How many of those >70% of the black population fired or bullied into submission will be flocking to Candidate A rather than, at best, staying home?

Perhaps you think that all these people will just fold and get jabbed--and of course most of them will, because they are wage slaves and the "science followers" are counting on that--and they'll get over it. No lasting political cost. No big deal. Except for the rare ones who are harmed by the vaccines, and their family and friends. Except for anyone among the working class, including the 70% of the black population, who is not craven enough to say: "You forced me to sign that loyalty oath get that jab so I could eat, but I won't hold that against you. I'll make sure to vote for you next election."

If you think this is going to help build a progressive political movement, if you don't understand it's going to further destroy any chance of that, you are kidding yourself. And you're helping to accelerate the political disaster.

But don't worry, you can blame the result on "the unvaccinated."

I hate to be so blunt. But I also hate to be put under house arrest. I hate that everyone will be subject to a regime of ubiquitous social control by the American capitalist-imperialist state, through its corporate-captured medical bureaucracy, that will extend to every activity, and will not end with, or be limited to, this one virus. I hate that so many people--especially leftists--have not thought for two serious seconds about that. I hate that so many people--especially leftists--are ready not just to accept, but promote this, and, with unmerited arrogance and condescension, attack and ridicule those who resist it.

I wish it weren't such a dire choice we are facing, but it is. The net effect of a society divided between bubble people and continuously vaccinated people will be the weakening of the human immune system en masse. The net effect of an internal "vaccine passport" that controls all bodies, movement, and participation will be more control all around. There is no scientific, public-health, or political justification for, or benefit from, this, and it will in fact work to destroy science, public health, and political life. It will mark an enormous failure of the radical/socialist left to fall for this.

Therein lies the real danger to society.

It's a big deal.


1 Including in statistics all cases from before vaccines were available, not counting single-jabbed or anyone fewer than 14 days jabbed as "vaccinated," etc.

2"natural immunity confers longer lasting and stronger protection against infection, symptomatic disease and hospitalization caused by the Delta variant" Comparing SARS-CoV-2 natural immunity to vaccine-induced immunity: reinfections versus breakthrough infections,

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