Torstar pushes vaccine passports

Vincent J. Curtis

15 July 21

RE: Vaccine passports are essential, get used to it. Toronto Star editorial 15 July 21

RE: Vaccine hesitance highest among Black Canadians, survey suggests.  News item the Canadian Press 15 July 21

Never shy about advocating for progressive authoritarianism, on a day when Ontario, a province of 15 million people, reports 143 new cases, the Toronto Star asserts that vaccine passports are essential.  Essential for what?

(Especially weird is the demand in the editorial that college students get vaccinated, or they can’t attend.  The data, Karen, is that those in their early twenties are at no risk from COVID, and the risk of adverse reaction to the vaccine is actually greater than the benefit it confers on twenty-somethings.  I’ll explain the rest later, after you calm down.)

Essential for what?  So that we can show our passport to enter Tim Horton’s field? To enter a movie theatre? To work out at the Y?  Who is going to check?  Who will enforce the checking?  What will be the sanctions for not checking?  Why is law enforcement thrust into the hands of private businesses and private citizens?  Because there aren’t enough state police?

“No one will force you to be vaccinated, but there will be consequences if you don’t.” says the Star without a trace of irony.

Black Canadians, by choice, are lagging in vaccination rates.  Does the Star recommend that they pay the consequences for their recalcitrance, or do Blacks get a pass because they’re Black?

And is the Star next going to editorialize about how Blacks are done in because they’re behind the vaccination curve?

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