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States Have Banned Vaccine Passports

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I am going to guess all the states that banned businesses from using vaccine passports are also operated by people who were elected on “small government” and “government staying out of business” platforms.

Correct. And democratically elected.

Even your opponents have good ideas from time to time

Hawaii and New York are the only states implementing vaccine passports.

Hawaii appears to have the strictest implementation in the country:

> Starting May 11, fully vaccinated individuals in Hawaii who uploaded their proof of vaccination to the state's "Safe Travels" system were allowed to travel inter-county without pre-travel testing and quarantine restrictions.

NY has a state-sponsored app that businesses can choose to require:

> New York has introduced a government-sponsored digital vaccine passport program called the Excelsior Pass, according to the AP. The smartphone app shows whether someone has been vaccinated or recently tested negative for COVID-19. At least some sports and performance venues, such as Madison Square Garden and Yankee Stadium, have used Excelsior Pass to prove vaccination

Seems like blatant HIPAA violations to me and only a best-intentions step above asking for “papers please” in a German accent, but whatever.

I support states rights I suppose, and I support my own right to not spend money with these states or businesses. I think I support them making poor business decisions so they can feel the effects - or prove me wrong.

HIPAA doesn’t govern non-healthcare-related businesses at all, so it’s not a violation to require proof of vaccination. Also, schools and travel companies have been doing it for decades with no issues. Surprised to see HN “intellectuals” are now parroting Marjorie Taylor Greene... https://www.hipaajournal.com/is-it-a-hipaa-violation-to-ask-...

>it’s not a violation to require proof of vaccination

Not unless someone looks up your status without your consent, I would think.

Did it bother you that hospitals require workers to have a yearly flu shot before the pandemic?

Did you/will you boycott those hospitals now?

Do you think there is a difference between the relationship of a business to employer and business to customer? I do.

> only a best-intentions step above asking for “papers please” in a German accent, but whatever.

This is the connection to The Third Wave, and we all recall the Der Spiegel cover photo of Trump in a photo studio doing a nazi greeting so I'll not link it in this tread.

Last Thanksgiving we cancelled Hawaii vacation and went to Florida instead. It was nice and everyone (but one foreigner couple -askholes) were friendly. My money is not going to Hawaii nor NY. They can have fun impoverishing their remaining people.

Good to see that many US legislators learned to avoid turning Ron Jones' 1967 experiment[0] into an actual real dystopia.

HI seems to be in real trouble though, at least for now. Maybe spend more time on Retraction watch, the number of retracted Coronavirus COVID papers are now well over a hundred[1]. Does anyone actually see that reported?

[0] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=The_Third_Wave_...

[1] https://retractionwatch.com/retracted-coronavirus-covid-19-p...

Ah, yes, businesses refusing to admit people who are willingly spreading a vector of mass death are SOOO facist. I’m sure those evil dems are gonna start rounding up the Real Americans and putting them in ghettos any day now. Incentivizing people to adopt the sole solution to the largest natural economic disruption in modern history is tantamount to nothing less than genocide, amirite? How dare they interfere with our God given right to threaten the lives of immunocompromised fellow shoppers?

Do you have any clue how many COVID-19-related papers have been published in the last 1.5 years? 100 retractions is meaningless. Have you even looked at the list? The first(!) retraction on the list is a paper arguing 5G causes COVID (ah yes, my more efficient radio encoding is making a virus spontaneously appear. What’s next, H265 causes cancer?? No, wait, 802.11AX causes the flu!)

The fact that this is the top comment is an embarrassment to this whole site.

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