Like it or not, vaccine passports showing that you’ve had the COVID vaccine — and possibly other vaccines in the future — will be the global order of the day if the prime minister of Greece gets his way.
Kyriakos Mitsotakis wants the system up and running with the EU supervising it as soon as possible — and it may not take all that long to implement, as Denmark plans to begin issuing vaccine passports in February 2021, with Sweden not far behind in issuing their own.
Israel already has an identity card called a “green pass” for those who are vaccinated to use to shop, work out in a gym or visit a museum. Other countries are lining up for similar cards, as well.
If this is true, why isn’t it widely known? It may be because, as The Spectator puts it, “The government seems to be developing vaccine passports by stealth,” so all the technologies for it, including phone apps, are ready when the passports are launched.
While the idea is to help get the world back to normal at a faster pace, it is eerily reminiscent of identity passports from the past, when the Third Reich required them of its citizens during World War II, as pictured in Ray Cowdery’s 1996 book, “Papers Please!: Identity Documents, Permits and Authorizations of the Third Reich.”
SOURCES:
The Spectator February 13, 2021
Ray Cowdry, author, June 1, 1996