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Vaccine Passports: The End of Human Liberty?


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  2. The fact that the Technocracy could not even implement a widely-accepted standard for digital proof of vaccination ahead of its rollout just proves how many legal hurdles there must be behind the scenes – either that, or it’s a sign of gross incompetence. Likely both.

    Google and Apple pushed their contact tracing API within weeks and had hundreds of apps building atop them by the end of 2020 – easily foiled, but present.

    I see little to no evidence that, despite the fanatic dreams of digital comptrollers, there is any meaningful progress on this front. I know you are very keen on noting the competence of our self-professed overlords, Catherine, and 5 years ago, I would’ve agreed with you.

    But it’s abundantly clear to anyone observing at this point that we aren’t even dealing with the B-Team anymore – we’re dealing with minor-league recent college grads drafting plans at Think Tanks whose reputation has been tarnished beyond reason and are now victims of destroying the pipeline of meritocracy to educational institutions formerly associated with producing the “best and the brightest.”

    Not that “Vaccine Passports: The End of Human Liberty?” isn’t an important topic, but sometimes we should read the field as it is and take the short-term victory as opposed to occupying the minds of our opponents ad-nauseam.

    1. states now keep a central database of vaccine records such as Georgia:

      https://dph.georgia.gov/immunization-section/georgia-immunization-registry-grits

      so it’s quite easy to link all States’ databases into one main one for purposes of vaccine passports.

      contact tracing = digital payments. in some cases tracking someone by their digital receipt is better than GPS – such as where someone sat on a plane or what taxi they took.

      the US is just one part of this. it’s a global effort. if EU implements vaccine passports, Americans will need to get one if they want to go to Europe.

      no one will come to your house to make you take the shot, but you will find yourself increasingly marginalized from public services, travel, and society if you are don’t have the shot.

      if you look at how Microsoft was successful, it wasn’t because they were the best or even that good – they just managed to get a monopoly position. you don’t have to offer a good product to be successful is the lesson behind Microsoft. it’s kind of the same logic here.

      agree with you that it’s a b team but also agree with Catherine that the b team functions outside of financial reality. in reality the b team would be locked out of having so many resources. but here, they are only limited by their stupidity.

      1. Yes, there has been unification of data.

        April 2020: https://gizmodo.com/why-is-jared-kushner-creating-a-national-surveillance-1842796722

        Palantir, Microsoft & Amazon run UK NHS Covid db: https://www.healthcareitnews.com/news/nhs-issued-legal-challenge-over-contract-palantir

        https://www.law360.com/articles/1356826/feds-face-foia-suit-over-palantir-s-covid-19-data-platform
        “HHS Protect became operational in April 2020 after the department contracted with Palantir to build the new system to track COVID-19 infection data, according to the suit. The system brings together more than 200 disparate data sources into one “ecosystem” that integrates data across federal, state and local governments as well as the health care industry, the suit says.”

      2. Amazon court win throwing the Jedi contract into doubt may have an interesting impact on the Passport plans.

    2. > Google and Apple pushed their contact tracing API within weeks and had hundreds of apps building atop them by the end of 2020 – easily foiled, but present.

      How are they easily foiled? Contact tracing infrastructure iterated rapidly and now supports multiple configurations, including one where no app is needed, if the health authorities in a geo-region request tracing.

      > minor-league recent college grads drafting plans at Think Tanks whose reputation has been tarnished beyond reason and are now victims of destroying the pipeline of meritocracy to educational institutions formerly associated with producing the “best and the brightest.”

      Or, the newest generation of implementers were cultivated in different institutions. The gap between their best and the “average” is even more than the mythical 10X.

      It’s not about competence at a point in time, it’s about the incredible learning advantage of running parallel experiments at scale and collecting data on both “your team” and “adversaries”. If you can learn and iterate fast enough, while some are convinced you are not a threat, then ..

    3. No doubt they are running into many obstacles. However, as long as the central bankers control the money machine, they can keep on coming. The history of warfare suggest that overwhelming resource advantage wins so matter how stupid it is. That is why the “Midianite thing” is so important to overcome the resource advantage. So I wish I was in as celebratory mood as you.

      1. “The history of warfare suggest that overwhelming resource advantage wins so matter how stupid it is.”

        Very fair point.

        But sometime, the Visigoths come to everyone’s gate.

        My optimism stems solely from the fact that as a member of the under-30 crowd, I can tell you that this demographic is not equipped to run an empire, let alone a global payments system doubling as a Panopticon.

        For anyone who can outlive or keep pace with this time horizon, there is much hope! It is a hyperlocalized hope with very short supply chains, but hope nonetheless.

        God bless you and yours, Catherine – perhaps my “state of amusement” has outpaced my ability to accurately assess the threats at hand 😛

  3. I agree with Joshua. The B team is weak. My friends kids are saying do not take the jab but the parents are weak. Have faith God he is here right now working thru the Joshua’s.

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