A Passport that restricts movement based on Medical HISTOry

THEREFORE; be it resolved that the Libertarian National Committee stands in stark defiance of all attempts by government to interfere with the private sector response to COVID19 as well as the degradation of civil liberties and livelihood at the hands of legislators. We oppose vaccine passports and any government mandated documentation, surveillance, restrictions, mandates, or laws which tread on the rights of the people. We stand in service of those seeking freedom in the United States as the centrifugal force of liberty. 

  
Justin Amash@justinamash

No vaccine passport. It doesn’t get much more dystopian than being required to show your “health papers” wherever you go.

6:42 PM · Mar 29, 2021·Twitter for iPhone 

 RON PAUL: I think the vaccine passports might be the one that, or hopefully, that the people finally wake up. That's enough. I am not going to put up with a passport identifier in my body. I mean that is a sacrifice -- that solidifies the whole concept that our lives belong to the government.

I always said the military draft was a symbol of who owns our bodies and the Internal Revenue Service because they own everything and allow you how to spend it. They own liberty and now you are going to get permission to use a little bit of it. They are going to divvy it out a little bit. You'll never get back what you should have. But that is what's happening.

This is their guide for how to do it. Where you go, what you do, what store you can go in, what baseball game you can go, where you can go to school.

If this is not stopped -- it is true, the people who are making these dire predictions about how bad things are going to get. If this continues, it is going to be bad. Right now, there is an effort, there is still an ability for us to speak out, if nothing else, one-on-one, talk to friends...

If we stick to our guns and speak the truth and tell and warn people and put it in a moral tone. You have to have a basic principle of what life and liberty is.

The government doesn't give us our liberty and that is what they are teaching us now. They are giving us our liberty back one piece at a time. But I can guarantee you one thing, if you think you are going to get all your liberty back by one piece at a time, it ain't going to happen. This is why we have to take a stand -- vaccine passports, that can't be allowed to go on because that makes it even worse. But the whole rest has to stop. go.

6:42 PM · Mar 29, 2021·Twitter for iPhone 

The charge is made that the unvaccinated are murderers:  Why? because they increase the risk to others. 

The Absurdity of "increasing (even small) risk to others makes you a murderer" becomes apparent when we take it to its logical conclusion:

• Therefore, all car drivers are murderers because they increase the risk to others.
• Therefore, if you raise a cow, you are a murderer because you contributed to climate change.
• Therefore, people who use knives to prepare food are murderers because preparing food increases the risk to others.
• Therefore, people who use stoves are murderers, since stoves can explode or burn down a building, so anyone who eats cooked food is a murderer.
• And of course, people who use a lawnmower to cut their lawns must be sociopaths.
• In general, any freedom will increase the risk to others.
• By this logic, anyone who does not do their life in some optimum fashion (according to someone in charge) is a murderer. 
• Ultimately, "murderer" becomes meaningless, because "we're all murderers".

Unfortunately, we will always increase the risk to others by simply existing. Hence, only a person who is living life as "some" authoritarians dictates would end up being considered completely risk-free. 

The right to select the level of risk in one's life is at the center of "living" one's life. For someone else to mandate the amount of risk you take is to control you and your life.

An example is that we are seeing the Chinese zero COVID policy failing and causing immense pain for the population. Zero risk is the authoritarian's utopia sold to unsuspecting masses. It has meant and always means subjugation.

If having contact, or being around someone seems like too much of a threat, without their intention to harm, (as in there is no evidence that they are infected) it is primarily your responsibility to stay away from a perceived threat rather than forcing them to change their life by forcing them to take unknown risks.  Even one forced death due to a vaccine is one too many.

What is forgotten is that the core of liberty (our rightful freedom) is respect for the autonomy and diversity of our pursuits. Everyone being forced to take the same particular action simply because "the wisest amongst us" have decided is supporting a fantasy statist position. The fantasy of the benevolent dictator which is the end of Liberty.

The core issue that overwhelms hospitals is the inability of a free market to create more supply when there is more demand.

The problem that is being ignored is socialized medicine which prevents a society's ability increase supply when demand has increased. In addition to that, there is only one medical solution forced about everyone due to it's authoritarian nature.

The law of supply and demand indicates the group that will cause a supply shortage is the group with the highest need for the product. In this case it could be 

• the old, 
• it could be those who are prone to getting sick, 
• or it could be people who are not taking care of themselves either through eating or exercise or even unattended emotional issues. 
• It is also those who do not protect themselves by avoiding those who are infected.

• Since people who get older overwhelm the hospital system, should getting old be illegal? We would need a passport for people that are older than sixty or seventy or some arbitrary age, to be allowed to go about their business.
• People who eat too much and are overweight are said to overwhelm the hospital system.  So should those who enjoy sugary drinks be punished like criminals?
• What about those who do not exercise?

This way of thinking becomes problematic when our solutions are in terms of groups or collectives.

It becomes absured when we consider the fact that the largest group of people who clog up hospitals are people who "are still alive". 

Statistics indicate that most people who overwhelm hospitals are of the "still alive category". 

They are the primary cause of an overwhelming for hospitals. 

Therefore, we should restrict everyone's movement ... unless they are dead.

The unvaccinated have abused their rights: because they are not considering others.

Abuse of rights is being used in a way that shows a lack of understanding of what "rights" are. The basics are that:

• A right is a boundary, a requirement for living that any individual has.
• Anyone irresponsibly transmitting disease is aggressing on another (initiating force).
• We have a right not to be (intentionally) infected.
• An unvaccinated person is not the same as someone who has COVID.
• An unvaccinated person is not necessarily a transmitter. 
• A vaccinated person is not necessarily safe, they can transmit.
• It is possible that an unvaccinated person will never get COVID and never transmit it
• Those who equate "an unvaccinated person" with people who have COVID are leveling a smear, a fraudulent statement, and have harmed countless lives.

Someone is not abusing their rights by living their life differently than those with a stamp of approval. The claim that they could kill someone simply by the fact that they are not vaccinated is a false logical premise.

• A non-vaccinated person is NOT the same as a person transmitting COVID.
• A non-vaccinated person can be free of COVID for their entire life.
• A non-vaccinated person can be healthier than a vaccinated person.
• A vaccinated but infected person can shed virus while an unvaccinated but uninfected person sheds no virus at all
• You can only be a proximate cause of another getting COVID by having COVID and actively transmitting it. The non-vaccinated do not necessarily have COVID. They simply are not vaccinated.

Believing that the unvaccinated are abusing the rights of the vaccinated is thoughtless, rash, and engaging in faulty logic, ignoring the fact that the unvaccinated have the same rights, the same liberties, as the vaccinated.

And ultimately, demonizing a particular group and not respecting another's right to control their body is an attack on our own liberty ... and on your right to live.

LNC Resolution on Vaccine Passports

by Staff on April 1, 2021 in News

WHEREAS; the Federal, State, and Local governments of the United States have been inept in the handling of the SARS-CoV-2 virus pandemic and have not been forthright, righteous, nor consistent in their advice and legislation.

WHEREAS; pharmaceutical companies had the vaccine developed for COVID19 disease as early as 72hrs after the DNA sequence was released from Chinese researchers, however the FDA disregarded their own memorandum on the expedited handling of vaccine research and deployment stifling lifesaving technology.

WHEREAS; the Federal government has lied about the usefulness of masks, only to hoard the effective N95 masks for themselves, and then later reversed the position after masks were bought off the market by the public sector.

WHEREAS; by March 2020, the CDC had tested 10,000 people in the United States for COVID19, where South Korea was testing 10,000 per day by forming an open public-private partnership. The CDC, FDA, and CMS worked in tandem to shutdown private laboratories, such as the private University of Washington lab twice, for privately testing positive COVID19 cases. The CDC botched their tests which were rendered scientifically inaccurate while private sector kits were being shipped overseas for use elsewhere.

WHEREAS; the Federal, State, and Local governments across the United States degraded civil liberties, levied steep fines against peaceful people, and took away livelihood and lives through the closure of transportation, businesses, and lockdown orders while hypocritical oligarchs defied those same orders.

WHEREAS; governments stifled the response to the SARS-CoV-2 virus pandemic every step of the way, while the private sector researchers, doctors, nurses, non-profits, and businesses lifted the entire load of relief in spite of governments interference.

WHEREAS; these same government officials now wish to implement a COVID19 vaccination passport for the purpose of restricting travel and maximizing obedience, further perpetuating the technocratic surveillance state.

THEREFORE; be it resolved that the Libertarian National Committee stands in stark defiance of all attempts by government to interfere with the private sector response to COVID19 as well as the degradation of civil liberties and livelihood at the hands of legislators. We oppose vaccine passports and any government mandated documentation, surveillance, restrictions, mandates, or laws which tread on the rights of the people. We stand in service of those seeking freedom in the United States as the centrifugal force of liberty.

FURTHERMORE; the Libertarian National Committee recognizes Dr. Li Wenliang, who was arrested by Chinese police in Wuhan, China for blowing the whistle on the discovery of SARS-CoV-2 virus at the Wuhan General Hospital. Dr. Wenliang was released after signing an affidavit stating he committed “spreading rumors” and was later acquitted after public outrage. Dr. Wenliang died at the age of thirty-three due to encountering the virus by treating patients with COVID-19. Dr. Wenilang was the first casualty by the government in the war against our rights and deserves our unwavering respect.

Adopted April 1, 2021

 To date, the U.S. government has only tossed around the idea. Now, the Biden Administration has backed away from this idea as Axios reported that the Department of Homeland Security said in late May, "there will be no federal vaccinations database and no federal mandate requiring everyone to obtain a single vaccination credential.”(Gonzales 2021). Regarding the government’s control on businesses, Florida’s Governor, Ron Desantis, “signed a bill into law Monday that bars businesses, schools and government entities across Florida from asking anyone to provide proof of a COVID-19 vaccination.” (govtech) on May 3, 2021. The issue of vaccine passports has been a mainstream talking point in ideological debate between conservatives and progressives. All the while, our elected officials are either “playing the platform” and looking for votes by disguising their rhetoric as a tone of striving for liberty or safety, or they are just plain ignorant. 

https://www.yipinstitute.com/articles/vaccine-passports-from-a-libertarian-perspective