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Health Passports – Both Government and Private Use – Are Dangerous and Must Be Opposed!
As your constituent, I am writing to urge you to do everything you can do to enact a permanent prohibition on the use of any type of health passport or passport-like policies by government or private entities. Very simply, they are coercive and un-American.
Even though there are already some protections in place, we are still seeing coercive tactics used to force us to receive experimental medical treatment without informed consent. One of the biggest examples are the mandates by the universities where students are being forced to accept the unknown dangers of a not-yet FDA approved vaccine or lose the opportunity to finish their degrees. Please do everything that you can to broaden protections by not allowing state or local entities, as well any educational institutions (both public and private), or in fact any business, non-profit or other entity to discriminate against people (including employees) based on Covid-19 vaccination status or immune status.
The White House has made it clear that vaccine passport efforts will be driven by the private sector. Whether the programs are implemented by the government or a private business, know that any type of health passport threatens our freedom and fundamental rights.
Many laws are being introduced to protect against inquiring into a person’s vaccination status and to protect individual “right of access” to public accommodations so people can work, freely move about society and receive basic benefits like food assistance — irrespective of their medical decisions. Please actively support these bills to make vaccine passports illegal. Explicit protections are necessary or we will quickly become a society where it’s acceptable to be asked to “show your papers.”
Vaccination or immunity status must not dictate privileges or civil rights. Although vaccine passports are being touted as vital tools that will restore normalcy and allow our country to reopen safely, experts say that the cost of their use is too high. If passports or passport-like behaviors are permitted, they will quickly create a two-tiered, caste-like society of haves and have-nots and desirables and undesirables. Segregation, which this country fought for so long to abolish, will once again be rampant.
Passports also raise serious privacy concerns and present a clear opportunity for major data breaches and misuse of individuals’ most personal information. According to the ACLU, which has taken a strong stand against vaccine passports, it’s altogether different for an employee to voluntarily disclose his or her COVID-19 status to an employer on a one-off basis than it is to collect and retain information. The ACLU has also warned that vaccine passports stand to disproportionately harm the most vulnerable members of society. For example, for single mothers, pregnant women, minorities and those who are economically disadvantaged, failure to comply could mean starvation, homelessness or the inability to receive needed medical care.
The Universal Declaration of Human Rights was enacted in 1948 to protect against such abuses. It states, “Everyone has the right to freely participate in the cultural life of the community, to enjoy the arts and to share in scientific advancement and its benefits.”
Thank you for doing everything that you can to resolve this urgent matter.
Please close all loopholes that allow discrimination based on vaccine status.
As your constituent, I am writing to urge you to do everything you can to enact a permanent prohibition on the use of any type of health passport or passport-like policies by government or private entities. Very simply, they are coercive and un-American.
Even though there are already some protections in place, we are still seeing coercive tactics used to force us to receive experimental medical treatment without informed consent. One of the biggest examples are the mandates by the universities where students are being forced to accept the unknown dangers of a not-yet FDA approved vaccine or lose the opportunity to finish their degrees. Please do everything that you can to broaden protections by not allowing state or local entities, as well any educational institutions (both public and private), or in fact any business, non-profit or other entity to discriminate against people (including employees) based on Covid-19 vaccination status or immune status.
The White House has made it clear that vaccine passport efforts will be driven by the private sector. Whether the programs are implemented by the government or a private business, know that any type of health passport threatens our freedom and fundamental rights.
Many laws are being introduced to protect against inquiring into a person’s vaccination status and to protect individual “right of access” to public accommodations so people can work, freely move about society and receive basic benefits like food assistance — irrespective of their medical decisions. Please actively support these bills to make vaccine passports illegal. Explicit protections are necessary or we will quickly become a society where it’s acceptable to be asked to “show your papers.”
Vaccination or immunity status must not dictate privileges or civil rights. Although vaccine passports are being touted as vital tools that will restore normalcy and allow our country to reopen safely, experts say that the cost of their use is too high. If passports or passport-like behaviors are permitted, they will quickly create a two-tiered, caste-like society of haves and have-nots and desirables and undesirables. Segregation, which this country fought for so long to abolish, will once again be rampant.
Passports also raise serious privacy concerns and present a clear opportunity for major data breaches and misuse of individuals’ most personal information. According to the ACLU, which has taken a strong stand against vaccine passports, it’s altogether different for an employee to voluntarily disclose his or her COVID-19 status to an employer on a one-off basis than it is to collect and retain information. The ACLU has also warned that vaccine passports stand to disproportionately harm the most vulnerable members of society. For example, for single mothers, pregnant women, minorities and those who are economically disadvantaged, failure to comply could mean starvation, homelessness or the inability to receive needed medical care.
The Universal Declaration of Human Rights was enacted in 1948 to protect against such abuses. It states, “Everyone has the right to freely participate in the cultural life of the community, to enjoy the arts and to share in scientific advancement and its benefits.”
Thank you for doing everything that you can to resolve this urgent matter.