This post was originally published on March 4, 2021.
With vaccinations against Covid-19 rapidly gaining momentum, we’re approaching a time when restrictions on travel and movement are likely to be eased. But with some scientists skeptical that we’ll ever see the back of the virus, it’s likely that governments will start to distinguish between people who have been vaccinated versus those who have not.
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Israel provides an early indication of what this might look like. The country has vaccinated approximately 50% of its population already and the government is preparing to issue “green passports” for those who receive their second shot. This vaccination document will give residents access to gyms, hotels, swimming pools, concerts, and places of worship. Restaurants and bars are expected to be included from early March.
The country’s health minister said the passport will be available through a mobile app and that businesses will be required to scan it on entry.
After its domestic rollout, there are plans to use the vaccination document for international travel, too. Greece, Cyprus, and Israel signed an agreement allowing citizens with vaccination certificates to travel freely between the three countries, without any self-isolation requirements.
Sweden and Denmark have also announced plans to issue digital vaccination certificates for travel and in-person attendance at concerts and sporting events. Other countries actively considering vaccination passports include Chile, Germany, Italy, Britain and the U.S. Global travel regulator IATA is working on launching the IATA Travel Pass, a digital platform for passengers that allows them to share their vaccination results with airlines prior to checking in.
It’s not just a question of getting vaccinated and being done with it. Our ability to return back to normal life seems to be dependent on sharing medical records and ensuring compliance with a plethora of ever-changing rules.
Some of us were O.K. with a temporary reduction of our privacy in exchange for measures to curb the spread of Covid-19. But the message was clear: This cannot be permanent and must respect individual rights. Whether that actually happens now—or ever again—is anyone’s guess.
Ethical concerns remain
According to the Economist Intelligence Unit, the bulk of populations in advanced economies will be vaccinated against Covid-19 by mid-2022. The timeline stretches out to early 2023 for middle-income countries and as far as 2024 for poor ones. This stratification underscores the divide between vaccine access; rich countries like the U.S., Canada, and some EU member states have procured multiple doses for each resident.
Poorer nations, however, will have to wait and depend on donor largesse to inoculate their populations. And if digital vaccination passports become a requirement to return to normal life, we’re looking at a stark divide in freedom of movement between the rich and the poor.
Big Tech has entered the race to develop a vaccination passport, too. The Commons Project is working on an app called the CommonPass, which certifies whether an individual meets travel and vaccination rules. Companies like Microsoft, Oracle, Salesforce, Cerner, and Cigna are part of the project, which seeks to pull medical records from a variety of sources and store them on your phone.
The rush to develop digital passports means records pertaining to individual medical, work, travel, and biometric data are stored on multiple databases and shared freely among authorities under the pretext of public health. This information is intricately tied back to our identities; after all the passports have to certify whether we’re immunized against the virus or not. And the more that this data spreads, the higher the chance of misuse.
“Even if individuals consent to have their health data collected, stored and processed for the purposes of using a digital health passport, providers would still need to build data protection into the design of these technologies by default,” Ana Beduschi, a professor of law at the University of Exeter, told Euronews.
She’s also the co-author of a report that examines the privacy and human-rights implications of digital health passports. The study says that deployment of these digital documents “may interfere with an array of fundamental rights, including the right to privacy, the freedoms of movement and peaceful assembly,” and that policy-makers need to strike a balance between “safeguarding individual rights and public health interests.”
Vaccination passport apps must be designed with privacy, security, and transparency front and centre. The Covid-19 Credentials Initiative, which seeks to develop open-source software with privacy-driven guidelines, is a step in that direction. The initiative is spearheaded by the Linux Foundation and brings together 300 technologists, academics, and healthcare professionals from around the world. One of its core objectives is to develop code that could eventually lead to trusted digital vaccine passports.
In our rush to return to pre-pandemic life, it’s easy to overlook the finer details. Who are the companies handling our data? Can we trust Big Tech with such sensitive information? What privacy guarantees do we have?
As responsible citizens, it is our right and responsibility to ask these questions.
What do you think of digital vaccination passports? Let us know in the comments!
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Comments
Well, Hack the System!
Once this system is perfected, and Harris/Biden get rid of the Constitution, and this vaccine passport goes worldwide as one system most likely, is this going to be the Prophecy in The Holy Bible of Book Revelations Ch. 13 verses: 16-17 ???? Mark of the Beast? If you can’t buy food, without a digital code of some, it will probably eventually be a code they will want to put on your hand or forehead, instead of just in the phones.
Unless you serve the NWO no thank you to the vaccine.
Mr Gates and Mr (Anal) Schwab can stick their vaccines and their passports where the sun doesn’t shine. I will not be part of this insidious agenda.
Bravo!!! Anal Schwab I love it haha
I have no intention of getting the Vax. It is EXPERIMENTAL! Everyone, if I came up with a VAX that would shrink your female organs or remove your male organs and got it approved for EMERGENCY USE can I demand you get it before you can travel? This is an outright trample of our human rights. Over 1.5 Million people die every year of TB every year worldwide, why is the same not applied to the TB vax? This is all a phycological program not a health program.
We killed millions of people with social distancing by interfering with herd immunity. shutdowns and social distancing have never been done in the history of the planet.
we are wearing masks that do absolutely NOTHING. There is no science to support mask wearing and there is a ton to contradict it’s effectiveness. Incidentally I’m a licensed healthcare professional not a layperson.
Now we are using all the mystery surrounding a handful of bureaucrats and a corrupt WHO organization run by a narcissistic billionaire who wants to put himself as the Dictator of the entire planet. We did all of this while shutting down all reasonable voices pointing out the absurdity of this agenda to strip us of our rights and infringe upon our privacy.
Oh masks do something alright. They hurt your health! Both physical and mental. Its fking disgusting what is happening and someone needs to pay for this.
It is not selfish to want to live long enough to see my children grown up and settled. If I take this gene therapy and have a serious adverse reaction, my chance of doing that will be somewhat reduced. I haven’t had a cold for as long as I can remember and I have never suffered from ‘flu’, therefore I think I am safe in believing my immune system is doing pretty well and I have no need of an experimental gene therapy. I wouldn’t buy a car without having all safety checks completed and being issued with a warranty. I certainly won’t take an experimental drug that has not gone through all the checks including animal testing and where the manufacturer is not liable for death and serious injury resulting from injecting with said experimental drug. No-one in their right mind would do, surely?
You mention Canada as one of the advanced vaccine countries. If only it were so! Our Crime Minister (Justin Turdeau) fumbled the task, and Canada is 48th in the world in vaccinations. To our deep disgrace, our government has dipped into the third world fund COVAX fund in a shameful attempt to acquire vaccines. We are also under the tightest lockdowns and most ruthless violations of our rights of any developed country in the world and unlikely to be ever fully open again.
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Sheeple. All of you who think it is okay for the very idea of this are sheeple. WHAT HAPPENED TO CONSENT, WHO IS THE AUTHORITY? Certainly the ones who think for themselves. For the rest of you, get in line and do what your told. You are pathetic, mindless, soul less, ignorant sheeple. And honestly, you deserve to be pushed off the cliff. The idea that someone has to be so stupid that they cannot think for themselves, and actually believe that an organization such as a health institute, or a government, has actually authority to dictate your lives and do it with your best interest at the forefront is absolutely absurd. This is exactly how all previous dictatorships and socialists and communist ideologies have started and they have NEVER ended for the better of the whole of the society in which it infested. But there remains one fact, that is this infectious disease is not COVID-19 or SMALLPOX or POLIO… it is CORRUPTION of POWER by a small group of mindsets of wealthy families that think they know what is best for everyone. And they will continue their ruse at every possible direction until they have infected everyone into thinking they are the answer to all your needs and that they care about you, they want you to feel comfortable knowing that you are their only reason they care. You are one of the family. So go ahead sheeple and find out that the old saying “blood is thicker than water” has always been as true and real from the day it was first spoken. But the truth is, you are not blood you are just water, filthy water in their eyes and you must be cleansed before you are allowed to hang out at the pool. Get your chlorine bath from your owners. Me I will continue to think for myself, live my life under my own authority. I am self governed, I am free, I AM AMERICAN, land of the free, home of the brave, and I will not bow to anyone! I AM SELF GOVERNED, FREE THINKING, and only my Creator has my best interest at the forefront. No government, no institute, and certainly no corporation is going to rule my life.
Oh dear lord. I’m not surprised by the idea of a vaccine passport, it’s that this covid virus is completely blown out of proportion by the ruling class. The third world country in Asia that I live in continually tells us that it cares about our health and that all the restrictions are for our own good. Horse s&!t. It’s very interesting that suddenly these corrupt governments care when a disease might affect them. There have been 0 deaths in my country, yet each new outbreak is deemed a “mini apocalypse”. Why don’t they care about the rampant hunger, poverty, malaria, dengue, etc.? Because these poor diseases don’t affect the wealthy, but covid does. The governments around the world are wallowing in expanded power due to so-called covid safety. They will never relinquish this new power without a fight. A vaccine passport would herald the beginning of the new-world order.
Absolutely 100% spot on!
I’ve never been one for the conspiracies, but this sure does seem to look like the very thinnest end of the slope that rises upwards to what some might call “totalitarian”….
To quote Orwell – “A society becomes totalitarian when its structure becomes flagrantly artificial: that is, when its ruling class has lost its function but succeeds in clinging to power by force or fraud. Such a society, no matter how long it persists, can never afford to become either tolerant or intellectually stable”
HELL NO! to both. resist the tyranny. ur life is at stake. Your right to privacy is already a thing of the past. impossible to imagine how oppressive our futures are likely to be.
For those of us who thrive in an atmosphere of cultural exchange through travel, this sucks big time. I don’t even want the vaccine and now I need the vaccine and all my personal data thrown into a deep state system that will do what with the information? Who the hell knows. I am so in love with travel, I will comply. If I was younger, I probably would not cooperate, but I’m 73 and not going to live forever. Now I know why Jesus called us sheep-bahhhhh
Speaking from the UK I am very concerned and very fearful about the future of our privacy. We have given up too much and hardly anyone is resisting. As someone who already has long term health problems Its making my mood worse.
Anyone who thinks that the vaccine is going to mutate your cells or do anything like that would, not that long ago, have believed that women who read should be burnt at the stake, that the sun revolves around the earth and that magicians could trap your soul in a lamp. Come on, people. We’ve gotten smallpox eradicated because of vaccines. Do you know what goes into the smallpox vaccine? How do you know that isnt changed everywhere to inject mutations or microchips or whatever other bull”£$ you believe? Do you know what you’re swallowing when you take asprin? Or antibiotics? But yet somehow you think that this new vaccine is that much different. We have a new virus in the world and this is how science is addressing the issue. Dont be a dumb-dumb.
Wow you need to do some research on vaccines before you make a comment like that. You might want to look a lot deeper into what you call life saving vaccines. Did you know that, we the people, have paid out close to 4 billion dollars from our tax dollars to families injured by vaccines since 1984. Look up the vaccine injury act of 1984 saying all pharmaceutical companies are not liable for anything including DEATH that happens to adults or children. It amazes me how so many will research baby products but never question vaccines. Did you also know that a pediatricians will get a bonus from health insurance for each child who gets it recommended scheduled shots per year. Plus show me proof that they do a safety study on all these vaccines oh guess what you wont…because they have not done any. Read the fine print on their web site and it will scare you. These are all facts and you can research them for yourself. Sure…tell me again that these vaccines are made for our health and safety. I do hope you wake up before you or a loved one are part of the injury act of 1984, good luck.
If you had even did the slightest amount of investigating the covid vaccine, you wouldnt say any of this. I have taken many vaccines and even opted in for a hepatitis vaccine due to my job and potential exposure. I refuse the covid vaccine for obvious reasons, but you can look up the information yourself or continue to put your head in the sand and chant “im not listening”
What a moronic comparison. Apples and Oranges. First you should educate yourself as to what a “vaccine” actually is because this doesn’t qualify. And yes you idiot this vaccine does alter your genetic makeup and they don’t hide that fact which is amazing because perhaps it’s you who need to educate yourself. There has NEVER been a “vaccine” on the planet that is based of introducing mrna into your cells. Moron! Secondly aspirin and antibiotics are not even in the same category as a vaccine. You would be the idiot saying the Tuskeegee Airman have nothing to worry about. A sheep who willingly just swallows the pablum of ignorance being spoon fed by the bureaucrats in charge who ironically don’t comply with any of these things themselves. This licensed medical professional would suggest you shut up and keep your ignorance to yourself. If you want to be a sheep knock yourself out but kindly keep your uninformed ignorance to yourself. What a sucker you must be.
Well you think what you want dumb dumb but I’m not getting it, vaccines are not as safe as the media has lately portrayed in an attempt to force them on everybody. people do have adverse reactions to even common vaccines, and not just anaphylaxis, which by the way is the only way an ME will rule a death as vaccine related, which scews the numbers abit. I myself almost died as a child during my routine inoculations, my body does not like certain vaccines and I had a cytokine storm that put my in the hospital, in a fever coma for almost a week. At which point my pediatrician stopped my series of vaccines, and I still to this day have never had a tetanus shot for fear of rolling the dice, and the one flu shot I got forced to take from an employer gave me a fever so bad I couldn’t get out of bed for a week. I’ve already seen 2 cases of cytokine related deaths caused by this vaccine in the media, that have been dismissed as not related to the vaccine because they weren’t anaphylaxis. but healthy people don’t have sudden systemic organ failure for no reason. the fact that the medical community is dismissing these actual threats to patients health in an attempt to serve the community is a violation of the Hippocratic oath “Practice two things in your dealings with disease: either help or do not harm the patient”. I’ll admit these occurrences are rare and most people should get vaccinated because the diseases they prevent are worse than the cure, but to dismiss the real fear and threat of vaccines to those few people is also unethical and counter productive. And to punish those of us who have a genuine fear for our own safety is unconscionable and verges on tyrannical.
I traveled for decades with a little yellow book, showing all my vaccines. In those decades I only had one issue, the argument was whether or not the “stamp” was raised. It cost me two gardens of cigarettes. This was a long time ago.
I get that country’s now have significantly more official travelers, but you want to play in their backyard, you just need to get the shots. Given what I think is the support from developed country governments, and the industry (for what ever reasons) , it’s a rule worth enforcing.
Yes – the WHO Yellow card is perfect. The vaccine information is entered into the book, it’s recorded and there’s no digital data collected. Simple.
I can’t see any positive aspect of, handing over absolute control of your life, i.e. one’s ability to travel, use public transport and enter establishments, etc. Well, one might as well get a chip implanted so it can ‘easily be updated and read for verification’. All this at the cost of having a vaccine which seems to be less and less suitable for variants which are beginning to take over, UK, Brazil, South African, strains.
I agree with Chris; put the vaccine info onto a card. I’ve been vaccinated for tons of things and have never had to have a digital record of it mixed together with my other health info. I can’t afford a cell phone to put any digital data on, so, unless they give me a vaccination “book” on paper, I guess I’ll just continue to stay home. I’m disabled, so I’ve only left the house 5 times in the past YEAR and have still have Covid symptoms that wiped me out for six weeks at a time because my husband is an essential worker, and my body hasn’t even produced any antibodies to the REAL THING, so how’s it going to produce antibodies to a vaccine? In fact, I’m ready to die of Covid right NOW than have my privacy compromised like this.
I whole heartedly agree with Ann Lewis. Covid is a political virus to force people into accepting the evolution to NO privacy or freedom of thought. I see it as a way to vaccinate us eventually to premature death to aid in the political takeover. Hopefully Americans have been making their own life decisions long enough to recognize government overreach quickly!
I don’t think that COVID vaccines should be compulsory for people but I do think that there is a role for a vaccine passport. I think that people who refuse to have the COVID vaccine are selfish and it’s a sign of the toxic individualism in our society that puts your own rights way above the collective rights of our families, friends and neighbours. I have been appalled that so many care home staff have refused to have the COVID vaccine, particularly since they have seen so many people die from this disease. So, to be honest, I wouldn’t want any care worker near my relatives in a care home if they hadn’t been vaccinated. What about my relatives rights to be cared for with as little risk as possible? I think I should be able to see whether they have been vaccinated or not.
I agree with Osmans argument that we should be careful about the involvement of big tech in vaccine passports. Of course they will always try to monetise data and this is no exception but why does a vaccine passport need to be digital and high tech. What’s wrong with paper – it still works well for actual passports?
I am happy to take the COVID 19 vaccine when it’s my turn and would encourage everyone to do the same. No vaccine in human history has been 100% effective or 100% safe but it gives us the best chance of a way out of this pandemic.
collectivism has been the philosophy of tyranny, destroyed countless civilizations, murdered 100s of millions of people and reduced their economies to poverty through fiat currency inflation theft. collectivism denies the inalienable rights of human beings to life, liberty or property. collectivism is never about freedom, rights or prosperity, but rather power, control and enslavement. Today, collectivists try to mix in just enough righteous individualism to make their model of collectivism tollerable by a free thinking human being that has escaped Plato’s cave. Hitler’s Nazi Propaganda Minister Joseph Goebbels said, “Hitler was a genius to mix just enough individualism into collectivism to get the people to accept it, because after witnessing Bolshevism, they never would have accepted it without it.”
So, the “mark of the beast” is finally here, is it? No so long ago we could not even imagine how this would even be possible worldwide. The true evil in this is that the mRNA “vaccine” is not a vaccine at all. It is a way to get into our bodies to mutate our cells. My family will not get the jab; in fact we don’t do flu shots at all. If that means we won’t be able to participate in the new world order, so be it.
I concur with both Pythias and Ms. Green. We were originally told this was a bio-warfare virus originating in an as yet un-verified Lab. That seems to have been quietly shelved, in favor of being a variant of previous viruses occurring over the past several years. I’ve carefully read through the various privacy statements of the medical authorities responsible for testing for the virus, nowhere do they say the individual’s results will be destroyed nor entered into a Data Bank. All this is a scheme to by-pass the existing DNA collection protections afforded to the public. Prior to this, an individual had to be found guilty of a crime or misdemeanor for the authorities to collect and store those samples. I suspect the end game here is to log the DNA of every living human being on earth.
I agree
I agree.. also i do remember years and years ago we had to have a vaccine card to get into first grade, public school!
I don’t get it. Since (a) whoever wants a vaccine to protect theirshelves can get one eventually and (b) it’s not even guaranteed that vaccined people cannot transmit the virus, what’s the point of all this? If transmission was indeed blocked, I would understand such measures in short term only, until there are enough vaccines for the population but why anything beyond that?
Sounds to me like they’d like to deal with a violent insurgency…
I am not happy that more of our privacy is being taken away. It’s like what happened after 9/11. ID medical theft could also become an issue. As we get closer and closer to the “mark of the beast,” I guess this is just another stepping stone. An unfortunate turn of events. This will not take us back to life as it was before Covid19.
Well, if Covid vaccine passports are against human rights then so is this:
“Failure to produce a valid yellow fever vaccination certificate at a South African port of entry could lead to refusal of entry, or quarantine until your certificate becomes valid.” which is a current requirement.
Countries That Require Proof of Yellow Fever Vaccination For All Arriving Travellers:
Angola, Benin, Burkina Faso, Burundi, Cameroon, Central African Republic, Republic of the Congo, Côte d’Ivoire, Democratic Republic of Congo, French Guiana, Gabon, Ghana, Guinea-Bissau, Liberia, Mali, Niger, Rwanda, São Tomé and Príncipe, Sierra Leone, Togo.
So yes, it is an established principle to protect a country from inbound travellers carrying dangerous viral infections. Just because it is now likely to become a requirement in Western countries doesn’t make it a big deal. If you have religious or other non-medical reasons to refuse a Yellow fever vaccine, yes, your rights are being trumped by the rights of those in the country you wish to visit.
Quite appalling for an overrated problem – its not Ebola. In reality this is a world wide experiment. (I’m a Ph.D Molecular Biologist – I know an experiment when I see one.) An unprecedented interference into personal privacy.I don’t have a flu passport & that kills a lot of people. We r not China yet but its coming-glad I’m old and only have a decade left. It will become unbearable. Good to see Fake Green Passports already up and running in the s’ hole Israel.
Given other government trends this a grab for more control over individual rights and tantamount to a social fascism. Another “Patriot Act” scenario for greater surveillance and control. Let’s not buy into this. Wake up!
The mRNA gene alteration is NOT a vaccine. It causes a permanent change to your DNA with unknown long term effects. By the manufacturers’ own admission it doesn’t even prevent Covid or Covid transmission. It has not been sufficiently tested, multiple people have died after receiving it–according to VAERS, almost 700 in the USA alone and 12,000 plus adverse effects reported (and only a tiny percentage is ever even reported to VAERS) The big question is: Why are governments pushing to make this mandatory for a disease with a 99.6% survival rate? Why would anyone take a ‘vaccine’ with a 12% risk of serious adverse effects–including death–for a disease with almost zero percent chance of killing you? Can you not see that there is an agenda behind this? (Look up event 201, agenda 2030) For you to talk about this government intrusion and violation of our basic human rights as if it’s perfectly fine is irresponsible at best.
There is no Agenda 201 – 2030. “Agenda 21″ if that’s what you mean and are depicting, was rewritten by a conspiracy theorist, last name Adkinson. The legit Agenda 21 was one of several agenda items for the 1992 United Nations Conference on Environment & Development in Rio de Janeiro. Check out USA Today. Fact Check: UN Agenda 21/2030 ‘New World Order” is not a real document. As for the number of deaths from the Covid-19 vaccine, there have been none. Deaths occurring after getting the vaccine are currently not the result of the vaccine. As opposed to 2.55 million that have died globally from Covid-19 and its variants. There are reactions to the vaccine similar to those you would have with a flu shot. Some have had a more severe reaction as a result of drug allergies but this is treatable. You are right about the vaccine not preventing you from getting Covid or transmitting it. However, what it will do is prevent you from ending up in a hospital on a respirator and/or dying. And, again, you’re right, we don’t know the long term effects. Try chemotherapy if you want to talk about long term effects but hey it’s better than the alternative. And after 16 years, I’m still here and thriving. Or ask a Long Hauler who survived Covid but is still suffering with symptoms months later. You appear to have good language skills so I am going to assume that you are fairly well educated and fairly intelligent. Perhaps a more positive alternative would be to check out reputable sites with actual fact based information. Even the former President Trump and First Lady of the U.S. got vaccinated before leaving the White House. They did it quietly. They also appear to be fine. Now that has to make you rethink. Maybe? As for some kind of vaccination proof, I’m all in favour. I want to know that the person I am sitting next to, who is not wearing a mask, has been vaccinated. When I get vaccinated, and I hope it will be soon, I will be doing it not only for myself but for my friends, family and community and for you as well. You sound like someone worth protecting and caring about.
You are in contradiction with your own saying….
“You are right about the vaccine not preventing you from getting Covid or transmitting it.”
and then say:
“When I get vaccinated, and I hope it will be soon, I will be doing it not only for myself but for my friends, family and community and for you as well.”
You too “sound” like an educated person, but after reading your comment it is obvious that you are not intelligent. First I want to point out your contradiction in that you agree with another commenter when you said; “You are right about the vaccine not preventing you from getting Covid or transmitting it.”
and then you say; “When I get vaccinated, and I hope it will be soon, I will be doing it not only for myself but for my friends, family and community and for you as well.” Well how intelligent is that? I wish to further point out your claim to wearing masks wherein you say; “I want to know that the person I am sitting next to, who is not wearing a mask, has been vaccinated.” Which the alternative to that would be that you believe a mask actually protects you. Well masks do not protect you from a virus. This is known fact. One need not to look any further than the last 30 years of data from OSHA and NiOSH. Wherein those agencies wrote the book on safety and who educate and train a vast variety of jobs and professional positions throughout the worlds industries in all areas from health to science to janitorial workers. They also train virologists in worker safety on how to protect themselves with proper PPE from virus infections when working with viruses. They clearly state that ONLY a fully encapsulated hood either positive or negatively pressurized can protect an individual from a virus infection. So take your own advise when you stated; “Perhaps a more positive alternative would be to check out reputable sites with actual fact based information.” HILARIOUS the profound hypocrisy and pure ignorance coming from your own words. I will however use your words in a more accurate and meaningful way. Once again you say; “You appear to have good language skills so I am going to assume that you are fairly well educated and fairly intelligent.” I will eliminate the word “assume” (I try and avoid that word whenever possible for generally speaking, only ignorant people assume) and I will reword your statement to a direct fact, to this I say; “You have good language skills and you use that to attempt to appear well educated and fairly intelligent to those less educated, but for us free thinking individuals with a bit of common sense we can read right through your bulls**t and wish to point out your ignorance and willful desire to be controlled and owned like a sheep, or a slave. You go ahead and choose that route, but I will be damned before I allow you to pull me into your pit of stupid. Go sell that sh*t to the other like minded dumbaz’ and do as you feel right for you. However if you wish to spread your infectious disease of sheeplism to others then you should get your “vaccine” and maybe, just maybe that will be the way to eliminate the sheeple from the intellectually superior. All I really can say with full conviction is that I do NOT get my truth from the authorities, rather I get my authority from the truth. I AM SELF GOVERNED.