Resist the Covid Pass

"What's the big deal? Yes, there's Covid panic -- don't respond with vaccine panic!"

This is what I have seen some say. But is it panic to see the Covid vaccines as different and representing a qualitative change in how the state uses its power over citizens?

Please read this article: Covid Pass in Lithuania and throughout Europe: How recent vaccine mandate laws have upended my family's life

We live in the small European country of Lithuania. In the last few months, strict Covid Pass restrictions have been introduced which represent a fundamental transformation in society.

... But as I'll explain, it's not just Lithuania. Covid Pass restrictions are being imposed throughout Europe. By my count, at least 14 European countries now have different types of domestic restrictions based on the Covid Pass. And every country has travel restrictions within Europe based on the Covid Pass.

Please click and read -- there are many pictures of life there. Everyone masked. Police at the entrances to malls. People needing to scan their pass in for the least activity. Just a dystopian, ugly, anomic world for no reason. Don't believe me? Search your own state's health dashboard and see for yourself: what the ICU numbers are, how many beds are available (keeping in mind that hospitals aim to make money and want to be at near-capacity at all times, and lack the flexibility to add more beds when needed, due to government regulations), what the "cases" (by which they mean positive tests) are. News media don't even mention Covid death numbers anymore, except the random one for the sake of ratcheting up the fear. However, hospitalizations and deaths from the vaccines themselves are kept quiet.

Why doesn't the author just get the vaccine already? 

My wife and I are not opposed to Covid vaccinations. Vaccination can be beneficial for many people. It's a personal medical decision which should be made by each individual in consultation with their doctor.

What we strongly oppose are vaccine mandates. The government should not force us to undergo a medical treatment against our will. Our rights as citizens should not be restricted because we do not undergo this medical treatment.

Medical exemptions: only allergies

We oppose the Opportunity Pass out of principle. We believe that Covid-vaccine mandates are wrong in all circumstances.

But in our own case, we have a further issue.

My wife has a long-term progressive disease. Based on data from both the vaccine trials and countries which publish real-world side-effect statistics, we are worried that the vaccine could trigger serious side effects in the short-term, or worsen her condition in the long-term.

No one should be required to be injected with a substance to participate in society. People can evaluate relative risk for themselves. Never in the history of the world have healthy people been restricted this way, indefinitely.

The author of the article, Gluboco Lietuva, tweeted: 

Government approval to exist in society. Banishment based on arbitrary rules. Recording of all people's movements. 

That’s not health; it’s control and power.

This new authoritarian control will only grow to ban ever more behavior as bureaucrats push to expand their power. It's not panic to want to resist our country becoming Lithuania. It's not panic to resist the US becoming Australia -- to acquiesce to the bureaucratic state irrationally insisting that there never be another Covid case again, or else we lose our freedom. 

The mandates are wrong and must be opposed.