In alt.home.repair, on Tue, 30 Mar 2021 09:46:48 -0400, Retirednoguilt
wrote:

On 3/29/2021 7:28 PM, Dan wrote:

https://populist.press/this-is-liter...-plan-unfolds/


WATCH: Press secretary confirms that White House is working with
corporate sector to formulate 'vaccine passports'
Businesses could then use this credential to allow vaccinated persons
admittance to events and places to which non-vaccinated persons would be
denied entrance.

I'm old enough to have my vaccination scar from the mandatory smallpox
vaccination I received as a young child.

Me too, and I had the scar for a long time, but I just checked and it's
gone now.

I'm old enough to remember
needing to pack my yellow PHS-731 International Certificates of
Vaccination card with my passport when I first traveled overseas (1967)

I carried that until 2018 when it was stolen when my passport was
stolen. I mostly mind because I can't remember exactly what I got, but
I think it included vaccinations for typhus, typhoid, and yellow fever.

I also took aralen phosphate with me when I hitchhiked to Panama,
because of all the malaria there. But you had to start with that a week
in advance and I didn't, and then when I got there it looked like
Indiana. They'd told me there was no more malaria but I didn't believe
them.

Plague. I think I was vaccinated against plague too, in 1970, and I'm
still looking for a place to test it.

because many countries in western Europe (and elsewhere) denied entry to
travelers who couldn't provide proof of vaccination against smallpox.
Also at that time, the U.S. wouldn't permit re-entry of it's own
citizens if they couldn't furnish proof of smallpox vaccination. I still

I think you are older than I am, 74.

have my PHS-731 and keep it in the same location as my passport when I'm
not traveling abroad. The requirement was only canceled in 1981 after
smallpox was declared eradicated by the W.H.O. Even today, many
countries require proof of vaccination against certain infectious
diseases prior to allowing entry.

Exercising our right to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness may
sometimes depend upon the right to expect our government (of the people,
by the people, and FOR the people) [emphasis added] to be our advocate
in remaining alive when there's a life-threatening infectious disease
pandemic or when previously inadequate public health measures have been
proven to allow a widely endemic disease to become pandemic.

Churchill paraphrased Santayana when he said "Those who fail to learn
from history are condemned to repeat it."

Some Americans have been spoiled by the absence of fatal contagious
diseases and they've remined too ignorant of them and too stupid to
learn.