The Group of 20 (G20) unanimously agreed Wednesday to move toward a system of international vaccine passports to “build on the success of … digital COVID-19 certificates.”
The G20, which includes the United States, China, Russia, and the European Union, recently concluded its latest summit in Bali, Indonesia, with the signing of a 52-point declaration.
While the Covid-19 pandemic and its disruptions to the world economy naturally dominate much of the document, G20 leaders do not, of course, apologize for their role in those disruptions by imposing lockdowns, inflating their currencies, and forcing their citizens to accept dangerous, unproven vaccines. In fact, despite all the evidence that the vaccines may well do more harm than good, the potentates, in their declaration, “recognize that the extensive COVID-19 immunization is a global public good” and promise to “advance [their] effort to ensure timely, equitable and universal access to safe, affordable, quality and effective vaccines, therapeutics and diagnostics (VTDs).”
During the summit, Indonesia’s minister of health, former banker Budi Gunadi Sadikin, argued that G20 countries should adopt a “digital health certificate using WHO [World Health Organization] standards” so that during the next pandemic, the entire world would not have to be locked down again.
“Let’s have a digital health certificate acknowledged by WHO. If you have been vaccinated or tested properly, then you can move around,” he said.
The G20 leaders probably didn’t need much convincing, since most of them had already imposed similarly tyrannical policies in their own countries. The Biden administration, in fact, continues to require foreign nationals traveling to the United States to prove that they have been vaccinated against Covid-19 — despite the fact that the vaccines do nothing to prevent transmission of the virus.
Thus, Article 23 of the declaration states:
We acknowledge the importance of shared technical standards and verification methods … to facilitate seamless international travel, interoperability, and recognizing digital solutions and non-digital solutions, including proof of vaccinations. We support continued international dialogue and collaboration on the establishment of trusted global digital health networks as part of the efforts to strengthen prevention and response to future pandemics, that should capitalize and build on the success of the existing standards and digital COVID-19 certificates. [Emphasis added.]
In a separate document, the G20 states that it will “endeavor to move towards interoperability of systems including mechanisms that validate proof of vaccination, whilst respecting the sovereignty of national health policies, and relevant national regulations such as personal data protection and data-sharing.”
Anyone who believes these people care a whit about national sovereignty and individual privacy probably also believes in the Tooth Fairy. As Naomi Wolf explained in an interview with Fox News Channel, “‘Vaccine passport’ sounds like a fine thing if you don’t understand what these platforms can do…. It is not about the vaccine or the virus; it is about your data. What people need to understand is that any other functionality can be loaded onto that platform with no problem at all.”
“Digital health or vaccine passports along with tracking and tracing apps present a serious threat to freedom,” Liberty Counsel founder and chairman Mat Staver said in a statement. “Vaccine passports and tracking apps are about collecting data and control. The vaccine passport is being promoted worldwide to limit a person’s ability to leave home, work, shop, dine, travel, attend a public event, or even worship. Covid is being used to advance this dangerous threat to freedom. We must never accept vaccine passports or tracking apps as the new normal. The implications for freedom are significant.”
Now is the time for lovers of liberty to make their opposition to this plan heard — loudly and clearly — because they may not get a second chance. In Article 24 of the G20 declaration, which concerns “the digital ecosystem and digital economy,” leaders “acknowledge the [need] to counter disinformation campaigns.”
“So as predicted by many early on in the pandemic (who were all dismissed and condemned as ‘conspiracy theorists’),” observed ZeroHedge, “a future proposed standardized vaccine passport will be accompanied by efforts for greater standardization and policing against ‘disinformation’ — likely to include any speech critical of the type of regimen that G20 leaders wish to enact.”
