Guest essay by Eric Worrall
Store Security – Your Papers Please? As Britain green lights stores and bars insisting on proof of vaccination, its worth considering where potentially telling the government our every move might lead.
Vaccine passports: How can I prove I’ve had both my Covid jabs?
People in England with both Covid jabs won’t have to self-isolate if a close contact tests positive for Covid after 16 August, Health Secretary Sajid Javid has said.
Announcing the changes, he said there would also be details this week on how to “remove the need for fully-vaccinated arrivals to isolate when they return from an amber list country”.
So, how do you prove you’ve had both jabs?
People in England can do this by requesting an NHS Covid Pass via the NHS website or the NHS app.
This is different to the NHS Covid-19 app, which is used for contact tracing. You must be registered with a GP surgery to use the NHS app.
Once logged in you can request an NHS Covid Pass. The system generates a QR code, which lasts for 28 days. You can download a PDF copy or have it emailed to you.
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Will I need to prove I’ve been vaccinated to go to the pub or attend sporting events?
The government’s Events Research Programme piloted different ways to run large events safely, including concerts, nightclubs and sporting fixtures.
These events were exempt from the wider coronavirus regulations such as the rule of six.
As part of the scheme, spectators attending Euro 2020 matches at Wembley Stadium are being asked to show their NHS Covid Pass or provide a negative lateral flow test result.
However, when setting out its plans for England’s move to stage four of the roadmap out of lockdown, the government said people will not have to prove their vaccination status in law “as a condition of entry for visitors to any setting”.
It said organisations are already able to ask visitors for proof of their vaccination status if they wish – as long as they do not breach existing equality laws – and will be able to continue doing so.
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Read more: https://www.bbc.com/news/explainers-55718553
In Australia police have already been accused of abusing the Covid checkin process, with warrentless trawling of the checkin database to gather information about persons of interest. This has led to a noticeable drop in interest, in complying with a requirement to use the app to register when entering premises.
Queensland Police Service tightens internal protocols on COVID Check In app access after officers perform ‘lawful’ data search
By Baz Ruddick
Posted Tue 29 Jun 2021 at 10:26amThe Queensland Police Service (QPS) obtained a “lawfully issued search warrant” to access data from the Check In Queensland COVID-19 app.
Key points:
- Officers are now advised not to access the app “except in extraordinary circumstances”
- Privacy Commissioner Phillip Green says he can see why the public would have concerns about police access to the app
- The state government is considering legal changes to ensure public confidence in the COVID app
The data was accessed as part of an investigation into the theft of a police firearm and taser at the Miriam Vale Hotel in the Gladstone region in central Queensland.
“The firearm was subsequently located on June 10 after a more detailed search of the hotel premises. The taser is yet to be located and investigations are ongoing,” a QPS spokesperson said.
“The data was accessed in relation to a group of people reported to be acting suspiciously in the area around the time of this incident.”
The spokesperson said while the data access was lawful, QPS had reviewed its policy and strengthened it to “ensure public confidence” in the data’s security.
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MIT Technology Review reports the system they tried has some bugs.
We tried out the first statewide vaccine passport
When we tested New York’s Excelsior Pass, we found privacy concerns, technical glitches, and questions over who it’s really for.by
Rebecca Chowdhury
July 6, 2021On June 20, about 20,000 fans gathered at Madison Square Garden in New York City for a Foo Fighters concert. The venue was at full capacity for the first time since the start of the pandemic, but it wasn’t a full return to normalcy: To get in, ticket holders needed to show proof that they’d been vaccinated—in the form of either a paper card or the state’s Excelsior Pass, a much-debated smartphone app that launched earlier this year.
The pass now has about 2 million downloads, which represents just 10% of fully vaccinated New Yorkers. Implementation has been rocky—marked by persistent glitches, privacy concerns, and outrage over the state government’s failure to prioritize the material needs of working-classcommunities of color—and businesses that require vaccination proof are already seeing backlash. Despite these concerns, though, it’s becoming more commonplace across the city to require such proof, and other states have expressed interest in launching similar passes. (You can read more about those with our vaccine passport tracker.)
So what is it like to use?
In anticipation of attending my first comedy show in years, at Union Hall in Brooklyn, I registered for the Excelsior Pass. Spoiler: It did not go smoothly.
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Read more: https://www.technologyreview.com/2021/07/06/1027770/vaccine-passport-new-york-excelsior-pass/
I personally comply with the local laws on using the checkin app – as someone who ticks a few boxes in terms of troublesome health issues, I really want to know if I have been exposed, so I can pester my doctor into providing a few therapeutics.
But it cannot be denied there is a broader conversation to be had. Society is rushing headlong into what is increasingly resembling a Chinese Communist style social credit system, in which people’s level of “voluntary” compliance with state directives has a significant impact on their freedom, and in which the government knows a great deal about your daily activities. I cannot help wondering if the “Covid Checkin” system will be retained, long after the Covid pandemic is well and truly over.
Every time I comply, because of my fear, I am haunted by the words of Benjamin Franklin – “Those who would give up essential liberty to purchase a little temporary safety, deserve neither liberty nor safety.”.
Perhaps all these government interventions are necessary to protect vulnerable people in society, or perhaps they are all a horrible mistake, which will lead us all unwittingly into a dark place. Or perhaps they are both.
We are already in the dark place and are so blinkered we do not see it.
“Perhaps all these government interventions are necessary to protect vulnerable people in society, or perhaps they are all a horrible mistake, which will lead us all unwittingly into a dark place. Or perhaps they are both.”
A mistake? All the lies, all the fake death statistics, the fraudulent use of the pcr test, the gaslighting over vaccination, and it’s either necessary or a mistake?
Eric, you’re part of the problem. People like you who want to straddle the line and say ” I hate that they require the covid ID but I follow local laws because I’m fearful.” You will get firmly planted in the authoritarian side, where your govt will only get worse and more big-brotherish, and cause the rest of society to be funneled there as well because so many are willing to go along with this insanity.
It’s a respiratory virus and we have a pretty good idea how they work… and lockdows only delay the inevitable (at the expense of the economy) and masks as they are used DO NOT WORK against respiratory viruses.
For as smart of a guy as you are, you’ve jumped the sharp just like jo-nova did. If you are so afraid, please stay in your home.
Do not take the 50% of the entire population who will likely get infected by this virus (but will notice little, if any, effects) along for YOUR ride.
So far whatever Australia is doing, combined with our natural advantages, has kept Covid in check. I’m complying, so far, because I want to keep it that way. I have health issues which put me in the “catch it and you’re f*cked” category.
Get some Ivermectin* it is a real and effective prophylactic for the virus and a potent fast acting treatment for the disease. Its has an unmatched long term safety record unlike the experimental vaccines.
The reason the message is not getting out is because it is off patent, cheap, already available, easy to manufacture, nobody can make money out of it and it would end the emergency use authorisations** (EUA) eliminating big Pharma vaccine profiteering.
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https://journals.lww.com/americantherapeutics/fulltext/2021/06000/review_of_the_emerging_evidence_demonstrating_the.4.aspx
** The equivalent pathway in Australia is termed Provisional Approval.
Believe me I’ve looked at that. My main hope if I catch it is my asthma preventer. Budesonide appears to be a very potent treatment for Covid. I don’t take Budesonide, but its possible my steroid preventer medication will have a broadly similar effect. But its still a risk.
Yes Budesonide too and the widely used – and off patent – synthetic versions of Quinine one of the oldest medications known to humankind* Chloroquine or Hydroxychloroquine. Quinine is the bitter taste in tonic water that when combined with gin created a tasty malaria-fighting aperitif! 😉
*Jesuit’s bark
I wish Eric would interview Dr Thomas Borody (of peptic ulcer fame) and write and article for WUWT. He’s a huge champion of ivermectin and says covid is easier to treat than the flu. A fellow aussie, but don’t know where he lives in relation to Eric.
I’m convinced Ivermectin helps, JoNova did an excellent article on how Ivermectin transformed the situation in Mexico. Doesn’t mean I’ll be able to get hold of it. And not catching Covid is better than hoping therapeutics fix it.
“I have health issues which put me in the “catch it and you’re f*cked” category.”
So do I, but I am not complying with unlawful restrictions. Comply if you want, don’t expect me to do it or get vaxed.
It’s not only a respiratory virus “thanks” to the spikes and their dammage on blood vessels.
Krishna, it is only a respiratory virus…now, it’s very like been modified by humans in china, but it’s still just a respiratory virus and has very similar symptoms as the seasonal flu for those who catch it… I’m well aware it’s worse than the seasonal flu, however, it’s by no means a fatal sentence to 99.9%+ of the population and all these mitigation tactics are simply dragging this scamdemic out. . what could have been here already (reaching the herd immunity threshold) has only been delayed by lockdowns. Eric should know this but he drank the koolaid. I dont know what medical issues he has nor how old he is, but for a guy who claims to follow the science, he’s left it outside his front porch and locked door when it comes to covid.
There may be no herd immunity, its a Coronavirus, not a flu. Coronavirus immunity usually lasts less than a year. Chinese estimated SARS immunity lasts 2 years. So it will likely keep coming back – just like the common cold.
The reason most of the population dealt with the virus with mild or no symptoms is because of innate immunity. Antibodies are not the only defence and not the most important. Natural Killer (NK) cells and T cell immunity – among others – are more important for viruses.
Some individuals even respond to SARS-CoV-2 exposure or infection by mounting a T cell response without an antibody response!
T cell immunity lasts for years or even decades but they are hard to measure in a lab test. Antibodies are used as a surrogate marker for T cell immunity, unfortunately, antibody responses are transient and typically disappear six to nine months after infection.
*https://www.technologynetworks.com/diagnostics/blog/a-skin-test-to-measure-t-cell-immunity-to-sars-cov-2-347298
eric, are you kidding? no herd immunity for coronavirus? what’s the point of vaccinations then? isn’t it to get to herd immunity faster (less vectors for transmission)? it may likely come back year after year, like the cold and flu bugs do.
I believe you live in australia, an island nation/continent. there’s another island nation north of you that many toutedas the poster child for what to do (lockdown, masquerading everywhere, social distancing) and how they defeated covid… that nation is japan. news just came out they’re canceling spectators at Olympic games because of covid outbreak…. I know they’re not the highest vaccinated nation in the world (and vaccines is only @65% effective anyway) but, gee, I thought lockdowns and masks worked? they work so well, you just gotta keep doing them. how many lockdowns and masquerades will it take in japan, australia, New Zealand, and tons of other countries around the world to defeat covid? the answer is “infinity” – you’ll be doing this forever while wrecking your economy and indirectly killing individuals with undiagnosed illnesses. you’re all fools.
Eric, I will try to find it, yet I believe it was found that SARS T cell immunity was still active over a decade later.
It is becoming apparent that the jab resistance to the wuflu is very limited.
Black Mirror warned us
I’m hearted by the majority of comments, the vast majority of which seem to recognise there is something nefarious about this whole thing.
If you have doubts regarding the official narrative, and have questions, I strongly recomend watching Dr. Michael Yeadon being interviewed.
” former Pfizer Vice President and Chief of Science”
https://tcn.video/dr-michael-yeadon-full-interview-the-awakening-3/