So incredibly heartbreaking and sad.
Do not get that shot, especially since you want to have children.
The airlines seem to be trying to require those. I hope they go out of business for pushing that crap.
The whole thing is ridiculous. They DON'T care about our health. There are obviously more Nefarious things at play. Control is a Big one. They don't care what happens to people from this horrible experiment. The shutdowns had the worst affects.
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‘Men Are Coming’: 255 California Prison Inmates Have Requested Transfer to Women’s Prisons Since January BY THE DAILY CALLER NEWS FOUNDATION April 6, 2021 Epoch Times Photo
Since January, 261 California prison inmates have requested transfers to prisons aligning with their gender identity, the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation told the Daily Caller News Foundation Tuesday.
Democratic California Gov. Gavin Newsom signed S.B. 132 into law in January, a bill that requires the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation (CDCR) to ask every individual entering the department’s custody to specify their pronouns, their gender identity, and whether they identify as transgender, nonbinary, or intersex.
The law prevents CDCR from disciplining the individual if that individual refuses to give this information, allows for the information to be updated later on, and requires staff to use the gender pronouns that the individual requested.
It also requires that CDCR house the individual in a “correctional facility designated for men or women based on the individual’s preference.” Similar legislation has been passed in Connecticut and Massachusetts.
Since the bill went into effect in January, 261 inmates have requested “gender-based housing” transfers, the CDCR told the DCNF Tuesday. The vast majority of these requests were from inmates requesting to be transferred to female facilities, and only six inmates did not request to be in a women’s facility.
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“255 are from transgender women and non-binary incarcerated people who are requesting to be housed in a female institution and six are from transgender men and non-binary incarcerated people who are requesting to be housed in a male institution,” Deputy Press Secretary Terry Thornton told the DCNF.
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The CDCR has approved 21 of the requests, and four of these 21 have been transferred to Central California Women’s Facility in Chowchilla.
“Two of the 21 have changed their minds,” Thornton said. The spokesman said that as of April 2, 1,129 incarcerated people self-identify as transgender, non-binary, and intersex.
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“That if we think it’s bad now, be prepared for the worst. That it’s going to be off the hook, it’s going to be jumping,” 41-year-old Tomiekia Johnson told the publication that staffers said. “They say we’re going to need a facility that’s going to be like a maternity ward. They say we’re going to have an inmate program where inmates become nannies.”
Prisoners fear that inmates requesting transfers are lying about their gender identity in order to be transferred to women’s prisons, the LA Times reported. This has slowed down the transfer process, according to the publication.
Thornton told the LA Times that meetings and discussions “have helped to dispel any fears” and that “a person’s gender identity is self-reported and CDCR will evaluate any request submitted by an incarcerated person for gender-based housing.”
The prison system requested several million dollars from California for implementing the law, Thornton said.
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White House press secretary Jen Psaki speaks to reporters in Washington on April 1, 2021. (Andrew Caballero-Reynolds/AFP via Getty Images)
White House: Americans Not Required to Carry ‘Vaccine Passports’ BY JACK PHILLIPS April 6, 2021
White House press secretary on Tuesday said that CCP virus “vaccine passports” will not be developed or supported by the Biden administration, coming after several GOP governors issued executive orders barring them.
“The government is not now, nor will we be supporting a system that requires Americans to carry a credential. There will be no federal vaccinations database and no federal mandate requiring everyone to obtain a single vaccination credential,” Psaki told reporters on Tuesday at the White House.
Psaki last month responded to reports that the administration was working with private firms to create a passport system, saying the administration would provide guidance.
“Our interest is very simple from the federal government, which is American’s privacy and rights should be protected so that these systems are not used against people unfairly,” Psaki clarified Tuesday. She again said the government would provide guidance on privacy concerns related to vaccines.
Some countries have either proposed or are using a vaccine passport-style system. But it has been criticized by civil liberties groups, who said it would potentially violate Americans’ privacy rights while denying key services to people who are not vaccinated.
Texas Gov. Greg Abbott, a Republican, issued an executive order Monday that would bar their usage.
“Government should not require any Texan to show proof of vaccination and reveal private health information just to go about their daily lives,” Abbott said in a statement.
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New York state, however, rolled out its “Excelsior Pass” system that would mandate people show that they have been vaccinated when trying to enter certain events and locations such as Madison Square Garden in New York City. It’s not yet clear if the Excelsior Pass will be used in other places.
On Tuesday, the World Health Organization (WHO) said that it does not recommend vaccine passport-style systems “at this time,” citing concerns about whether the vaccine is actually effective in reducing the transmission of the CCP virus as well as the lack of vaccinations being done in certain parts of the world.
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I am not familiar with this story. When & where did this happen? These people are pure EVIL.
No Catholic Church in the Dallas Fort Worth area is allowing communion on the tongue, only on the hand.
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In a still image from video, Minneapolis Police Chief Medaria Arradondo answers questions on the sixth day of the trial of former Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin for second-degree murder, third-degree murder and second-degree manslaughter in the death of George Floyd in Minneapolis, Minn., on April 5, 2021. (Pool via Reuters)
Derek Chauvin’s Actions in George Floyd Arrest Violated Department Policy: Police Chief BY ZACHARY STIEBER April 6, 2021 Updated: April 6, 2021 FacebookTweetEmail 5 Shares 64 Comments The actions of former Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin in the arrest of George Floyd last year went against department policy, the city’s police chief said Monday.
“I absolutely agree that violates our policy,” Minneapolis Police Chief Medaria Arradondo told a prosecutor in Hennepin County during day five of Chauvin’s trial when asked whether the way Chauvin used his knee to restrain Floyd violated policy.
Chauvin also did not follow department rules on de-escalation, Arradondo testified.
“That action is not de-escalation. And when we talk about the framework of our sanctity of life, and when we talk about the principles and values that we have, that action goes contrary to what we’re taught,” he told the court.
Chauvin is being tried on charges including second-degree murder in the death of Floyd, which took place on May 25, 2020. Officers responded to a convenience store in Minneapolis after receiving a call about counterfeit money allegedly being used by Floyd, who was soon found inside a vehicle with his suspected drug dealer.
Floyd resisted arrest and was eventually restrained by Chauvin, who used a knee on the man’s shoulder and neck area, and two other officers who held his lower body.
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Floyd was soon declared dead. The death was ruled a homicide by a medical examiner and the cause of death was “cardiopulmonary arrest complicating law enforcement subdual, restraint, and neck compression.”
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Epoch Times Photo In this image from video, defense attorney Eric Nelson, left, and defendant former Minneapolis police Officer Derek Chauvin, right, listen as Hennepin County Judge Peter Cahill discusses motions before the court in the trial of Chauvin at the Hennepin County Courthouse in Minneapolis, Minn., on April 5, 2021. (Court TV via AP/Pool) Epoch Times Photo In this image from video, prosecutor Steve Schleicher questions witness Minneapolis Police Chief Medaria Arradondo as Hennepin County Judge Peter Cahill presides in the trial of former Minneapolis police Officer Derek Chauvin at the Hennepin County Courthouse in Minneapolis, Minn., on April 5, 2021. (Court TV via AP/Pool) Epoch Times Photo Minneapolis Police Chief Medaria Arradondo drives a vehicle as he leaves the Hennepin County Government Center in Minneapolis, Minn., on April 5, 2021. (Stephen Maturen/Getty Images) RELATED New York Times Writers Deceived Readers in Stories About Project Veritas: Court New York Times Writers Deceived Readers in Stories About Project Veritas: Court Under questioning by Chauvin’s attorney, Arradondo acknowledged he had not made an arrest himself in “many years.” He also noted that department policy allows the officer the use of force in response to aggressive behavior initiated by a subject that may or not be in response to efforts to bring that person into custody. And he said that most officers would prefer not to use force.
Arradondo later said he wasn’t familiar with the idea of camera perspective bias. Afterward, Chauvin’s attorney Eric Nelson showed side-by-side video footage of the Floyd arrest, one clip from a bystander and one from a police body camera.
“Would you agree that from the perspective of Ms. Frazier’s camera, it appears officer Chauvin’s knee is on the neck of Mr. Floyd?” Nelson asked.
“Yes, sir,” the police chief responded.
“Would you agree from the perspective of officer King’s body camera, it appears that officer Chauvin’s knee was more on Mr. Floyd’s shoulder blade?” Nelson asked.
“Yes,” the police chief said.
Katie Blackwell, a Minneapolis police inspector who previously served as a training commander, also testified on Monday.
Blackwell said she’s known Chauvin for nearly two decades and that she trained him on defensive tactics. Officers were taught about “positional asphyxia,” or suffocation due to positioning, in the police academy, she said.
Asked if Chauvin’s restraint technique is one officers are trained in, she said no.
“I don’t know what kind of improvised position that is, so that’s not what we train,” she said.
Nelson made the point that officers are trained by multiple inspectors during their training, which Blackwell affirmed.
The trial is set to continue on Tuesday.
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Pastor Artur Pawlowski drives police on a COVID-19 check out of the The Fortress (Cave) of Adullam congregation in Calgary, Canada on Holy Saturday, April 3, 2021. (Screenshot Youtube via The Epoch Times)MORE VIEWPOINTS Clergy Who Bowed to COVID Fears Need to Face a Reckoning Michael Walsh Michael Walsh April 5, 2021 Updated: April 6, 2021 FacebookTweetEmail 176 Shares 16 Comments Commentary
Spring has finally arrived here in rural New England, the air crisp and fresh, the skies blue. The annual promise of renewal, symbolized by a glorious Easter Sunday, washes away the gloom of winter as new life bursts from the ground.
How sad it is, then—how demoralizing—to see our fellow citizens in the sunshine with slave masks on, heads down, avoiding eye contact with their fellow villagers, furtively shuffling along like sullen convicts getting a few moments in the prison yard before returning to their cells to continue a life sentence without possibility of parole.
Even were the Wuhan flu—caused by the CCP virus unleashed, perhaps deliberately, perhaps accidentally, on an unsuspecting world sometime in late 2018—a real global emergency instead of a jumped-up, panicked and likely malevolent over-reaction to an illness whose death toll has been largely confined to the elderly, the sick, and the obese, the way we have responded has been nothing less than a civilizational humiliation.
We have taught our people to fear one another, to move aside on a public street as if someone coming their way were radioactive, to shout at strangers for refusing to muzzle themselves as they go about their business. And all because an 80-year-old lifelong bureaucrat whose advice seems to change monthly, commandeered the heights of the federal government and terrified the American people about a disease with a 99 percent survival rate, if you even get it.
And yet, out of “an abundance of caution” (what an execrable, cowardly phrase) and outright fear we have abrogated our civil liberties without a second thought, including crucial protections of speech, faith, and assembly that we once fought and died to protect. We heedlessly demolished whole industries, including travel, restaurants, hotels, sporting events, cinemas, concerts and other public entertainments and accommodations.
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Most disgracefully of all, at a time when people could have used spiritual solace, we closed our churches—and the clergy obeyed without objection. For this, every single prelate, priest, rabbi, bishop or cardinal who meekly obeyed secular “authority” ought to be publically shamed, stripped of his clerical garb, and never be allowed to attend to souls again. A reckoning is coming for the clergy and it isn’t going to be pretty.
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In 1844, when anti-Catholic nativists threatened to burn down Old St. Patrick’s Cathedral in lower Manhattan, Bishop John J. Hughes gathered his parishioners, some of them armed, and promised the Protestant mob that any assault on the church would be met with deadly force. If a single Catholic church was burned, “Dagger John” announced to the city, the despised immigrant Irish would burn New York to the ground. Not a church was touched.
Epoch Times Photo Pastor Artur Pawlowski moments after he drove police on a COVID-19 check out of his church in Calgary, Canada on Holy Saturday, April 3, 2021. (Screenshot Youtube via The Epoch Times) RELATED Are the Courts Moving to Require a More Responsible Press? Are the Courts Moving to Require a More Responsible Press? Compare Hughes with the mewling pussycats currently occupying high pulpits. Even in Hughes’s homeland of Ireland, punitive lockdowns there have canceled St. Patrick’s Day (a national holiday and a holy day of obligation) two years’ running. The country whose national spirit was kept alive by the outlaw “hedgerow priests” during centuries of British ethnic and religious persecution, dispossession, exile, and murder has meekly surrendered its Catholicism and its soul.
Writing in The American Mind last summer, cultural historian Angelo Codevilla was characteristically forthright in his assessment of a “COVID coup”:
“What history will record as the great COVID scam of 2020 is based on 1) a set of untruths and baseless assertions—often outright lies—about the novel coronavirus and its effects; 2) the production and maintenance of physical fear through a near-monopoly of communications to forestall challenges to the U.S. ruling class, led by the Democratic Party; 3) defaulted opposition on the part of most Republicans, thus confirming their status as the ruling class’s junior partner. No default has been greater than that of America’s Christian churches—supposedly society’s guardians of truth…
“The biggest and most significant default however, has been that of America’s Christian churches—all of them—from their hierarchs to their priests, pastors, and ministers. Their complaisance with the lockdowns set aside a truth far more important to human dignity than anything having to do with any physical ailment.”
That’s why it was something of a cheer moment the other day when a Polish-born pastor in Calgary, Alberta, did his best imitation of Jesus driving the money-changers from the temple as he 86’d a platoon of Canadian cops and other busybodies who tried to shut down his Christian church on Holy Saturday. Calling them, “Nazis,” “Gestapo,” and “Communists,” Artur Pawlowski bulled members of the Alberta Health Services and City of Calgary Bylaw services out the door and into the street, shouting imprecations at them all the way.
Would that some American pastors would follow his lead. Then again, Pawlowski was born in Communist-occupied Poland and has seen totalitarianism up close and personal. But just because the police come with mild manners and happy-face buttons on their lapels doesn’t make what they’re doing right or lawful. For a country like America—founded on the very notion of freedom of religious worship—to meekly surrender to a Leftist, atheist mob of functionaries and penny-ante governors in the name of “health” is something that will live in infamy.
Meanwhile, the hidden death toll caused by the unprecedented, unconstitutional and illegal lockdowns continues apace, uncounted so far, even in the undeniably inflated Covid “fatality” statistics. Look for heart disease, hypertension, stroke, and cancers various to come roaring back, not to mention the increasing suicide rates including, alarmingly, among the young.
Now we have the various vaccines, created under the Trump administration in a headlong rush, and currently being imposed upon the public in a way that no other vaccine ever has been. And there is a movement building to require vaccine “passports” to enter some buildings, attend public events, and even to travel around the country—still masked, of course. That this sort of control over the populace was institutionalized in the old Soviet Union doesn’t seem to faze the authorities at all.
Maybe you should ask yourself why.
Michael Walsh is the editor of The-Pipeline.org and the author of “The Devil’s Pleasure Palace” and “The Fiery Angel,” both published by Encounter Books. His latest book, “Last Stands,” a cultural study of military history from the Greeks to the Korean War, was recently published.
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A health care worker immunizes Juan Guevara with the Pfizer COVID-19 vaccine at the Miami Dade College North Campus in North Miami, Fla. on March 10, 2021. (Joe Raedle/Getty Images) A health care worker immunizes Juan Guevara with the Pfizer COVID-19 vaccine at the Miami Dade College North Campus in North Miami, Fla. on March 10, 2021. (Joe Raedle/Getty Images)MORE VACCINES US Colleges Push to Mandate Student Vaccinations Before Fall Semester BY ISABEL VAN BRUGEN April 6, 2021 Updated: April 6, 2021 FacebookTweetEmail 162 Shares 126 Comments A growing number of U.S. colleges are announcing plans to mandate the vaccination of students returning to campus this fall, in line with President Joe Biden’s pledge to make all adults in the country eligible for COVID-19 shots by early summer.
At least six colleges—Cornell University, Rutgers University, Fort Lewis College, Nova Southeastern University, St. Edward’s University, and Roger Williams College in Rhode Island—have so far said that all students would need to be vaccinated before a fall return.
Three COVID-19 vaccines have been authorized for emergency use by the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) in the United States so far—Pfizer/BioNTech’s two-dose vaccine, Moderna’s two-dose vaccine, and Johnson & Johnson’s single-shot vaccine. Emergency use authorization is a faster, less rigorous process compared to full FDA approval.
Vaccines that have previously been required by U.S. colleges, for example shots for rubella or measles, had full FDA approval.
Rutgers President Jonathan Holloway said in a statement that its vaccine requirement will apply to three of the university’s main campuses—New Brunswick, Newark, and Camden. Beginning this fall, students will be required to present “proof of vaccination” before they are allowed to move into their dormitories, or attend physical classes.
Holloway said students may file for an exemption for religious or medical reasons.
Fort Lewis College President Tom Stritikus said in a letter that the requirement will provide “our best hope for returning to the hands-on, inclusive, experiential, and personalized learning environment that we have all come to love.”
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Cornell University President Martha E. Pollack wrote in a letter that it plans to require students returning to Ithaca, Geneva, and Cornell Tech campuses this fall to be vaccinated against COVID-19, the disease caused by the CCP (Chinese Communist Party) virus.
The decision was made following “recent announcements of expanded vaccine eligibility in New York and other states, and increasing vaccine production,” Pollack said.
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At St. Edward’s University, all employees and students aged 16 and above will be required to be vaccinated for a return to campus this fall semester, its COVID-19 Steering Team announced (pdf). Pfizer’s vaccine is the only one with FDA authorization for use in people as young as 16.
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Texas Bans COVID-19 ‘Vaccine Passports’ BY JACK PHILLIPS April 6, 2021 Updated: April 6, 2021 FacebookTweetEmail
Texas Gov. Greg Abbott signed an executive order barring so-called “vaccine passports” that would require Texans to show proof of vaccination before using a service or making a purchase.
“Every day, Texans return to normalcy as more people get the COVID vaccine. In fact, this week, Texas will surpass 13 million doses administered,” Abbott said Tuesday. “Those shots help slow the spread of COVID, reduce hospitalizations, and reduce fatalities.”
Abbott’s move follows a similar order issued by Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis, a Republican, who cited privacy concerns as a reason for doing so.
“But, as I have said all along, these vaccines are always voluntary and never forced. Government should not require any Texan to show proof of vaccination and reveal private health information just to go about their daily lives,” said Abbott, a Republican. “That is why I issued an executive order that prohibits government-mandated vaccine passports in Texas. We will continue to vaccinate more Texans and protect public health and we will do so without treading on Texans’ personal freedoms.”
According to Abbott, the order exempts nursing homes and long-term care facilities.
So-called “vaccine passport” systems have been proposed in several countries and some airlines have floated the idea. New York state started rolling out its “Excelsior” system that would require New Yorkers to show proof of vaccination at major events, although it is reportedly plagued by errors.
Pro-privacy and civil liberties groups have said such a system would not potentially violate the 1996 Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) law but may create two classes of vaccinated and non-vaccinated people.
MOST READ Texas Bans COVID-19 ‘Vaccine Passports’ US Shuts Once-Secret Guantanamo Prison Unit, Moves Prisoners At the same time, such passport systems may be contingent on whether a person has a smartphone with a relevant app showing they’ve been immunized. The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) said last week that low-income people, in particular, would be adversely affected if smartphones are required.
“A system that is exclusively digital, whether by design or as a practical matter, would be a nonstarter because it would increase inequality. Many people don’t have smartphones, including disproportionate numbers from some of our most vulnerable communities, such as people who are low-income, have disabilities, or are homeless,” the group wrote.
The passport system would also have to be decentralized and not allow tracking—or the creation of new databases, the ACLU said.
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Other organizations have said that mandating a vaccine passport system will lead to an increasing number of citizens who distrust the government and health officials.
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A vial with the AstraZeneca's COVID-19 vaccine is pictured in Berlin, Germany, on March 16, 2021. (Hannibal Hanschke/Reuters)
Clear Link Between AstraZeneca Vaccine and Rare Blood Clots in Brain, EMA Official Tells Paper BY REUTERS April 6, 2021 Updated: April 6, 2021
ROME—There is a link between AstraZeneca’s COVID-19 vaccine and very rare blood clots in the brain but the possible causes are still unknown, a senior official for the European Medicines Agency (EMA) said in an interview published on Tuesday.
“In my opinion, we can now say it, it is clear that there is an association with the vaccine. However, we still do not know what causes this reaction,” Marco Cavaleri, chair of the vaccine evaluation team at the EMA, told Italian daily Il Messaggero when asked about the possible relation between the AstraZeneca shot and cases of brain blood clots.
Cavaleri added that the EMA would say there is a link although the regulator would not likely be in a position this week to give an indication regarding the age of individuals to whom the AstraZeneca shot should be given.
He did not provide evidence to support his comments.
AstraZeneca was not immediately available for comment. It has said previously its studies have found no higher risk of clots because of the vaccine.
The regulator has consistently said the benefits outweigh the risks as it investigates 44 reports of an extremely rare brain clotting ailment known as cerebral venous sinus thrombosis (CVST) out of 9.2 million people in the European Economic Area who have received the AstraZeneca vaccine.
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The World Health Organization has also backed the vaccine.
MOST READ Clear Link Between AstraZeneca Vaccine and Rare Blood Clots in Brain, EMA Official Tells Paper US Shuts Once-Secret Guantanamo Prison Unit, Moves Prisoners The EMA said last week that its review had at present not identified any specific risk factors, such as age, gender, or a previous medical history of clotting disorders, for these very rare events. A causal link with the vaccine is not proven but is possible and further analysis is continuing, the agency said.
A high proportion among the reported cases affected young and middle-aged women but that did not lead EMA to conclude this cohort was particularly at risk from AstraZeneca’s shot.
The EMA is expected to give an update on its investigation on Wednesday.
RELATED UK Finds 30 Cases of Blood Clots After AstraZeneca Vaccine Use UK Finds 30 Cases of Blood Clots After AstraZeneca Vaccine Use Some countries, including France, Germany, and the Netherlands, have suspended the use of the vaccine in younger people while the investigations continue.
Scientists are exploring several possibilities that might explain the extremely rare brain blood clots that occurred in individuals in the days and weeks after receiving the AstraZeneca vaccine.
European investigators have put forward one theory that the vaccine triggers an unusual antibody in some rare cases; others are trying to understand whether the cases are linked with birth control pills.
But many scientists say there is no definitive evidence and it is not clear whether or why AstraZeneca’s vaccine would cause an issue not shared by other vaccines that target a similar part of the coronavirus.
In a separate interview, Armando Genazzani, a member of the EMA’s Committee for Medicinal Products for Human Use (CHMP), told La Stampa daily that it was “plausible” that the blood clots were correlated to the AstraZeneca vaccine.
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A man uses the IATA Travel Pass in a handout photograph. (Courtesy of IATA)
COVID-19 Vaccine Travel Pass to Be Launched on Apple in Mid-April BY ZACHARY STIEBER April 6, 2021
A pass that will enable travelers to show proof of a negative COVID-19 test or a vaccination will be rolled out on Apple’s platform in mid-April.
The International Air Transport Association (IATA), which is developing the pass, had planned to release it by the end of March.
A spokesperson told The Epoch Times via email on Tuesday that the IATA Travel Pass will be launched in mid-April for iOS, Apple’s platform, and mid-May for Android.
Governments requiring testing or vaccination proof as a condition of travel can use the app, trusting that the information supplied is verified, the association says on its website.
“With this app, IATA also aims to provide governments with the confidence to reopen borders without imposing quarantines on incoming travelers,” it says.
The free app will include up-to-date on travel, testing, and vaccine requirements for different legs of a trip, a global registry of testing and vaccination centers, and an option to create a “digital passport” that would let travelers share testing or vaccination certificates with airlines and authorities to facilitate travel.
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IATA Regional Vice President for Africa and the Middle East Kamil Alawadhi said late last month that the pass “will only achieve its success once airlines, different countries, airports adopt it,” Reuters reported. “A huge amount of airlines have requested to be on board,” he added.
Epoch Times Photo The IATA Travel Pass is seen in a handout photograph. (Courtesy of IATA) MOST READ COVID-19 Vaccine Travel Pass to Be Launched on Apple in Mid-April US Shuts Once-Secret Guantanamo Prison Unit, Moves Prisoners Virgin Atlantic plans to trial the app on UK-Barbados flights starting on April 16. The trial is in collaboration with the government of Barbados, which will accept the pass at its border.
Fliers can participate in the trial by downloading the pass on their smartphone and creating a digital ID which will feature a profile photograph and passport information before uploading the relevant COVID-19 information, Virgin Atlantic said in a recent press release.
RELATED UK to Trial COVID-Status Certification in Domestic Settings UK to Trial COVID-Status Certification in Domestic Settings “Our Barbados trial with IATA Travel Pass is an exciting step towards a ‘digital health pass’ as we actively explore secure solutions to integrate testing, vaccination, health documents, and locator forms into our customer journeys,” said Corneel Koster, chief customer and operating officer for Virgin.
Barbados Sen. Lisa Cummins, the country’s tourism minister, added that “we welcome this progressive step which complements our already implemented public health protocols and programmes.”
“The IATA Travel Pass lends an extra element of safety to both our visitors and Barbadians, giving them the confidence that we are engaging in and promoting travel that protects us all,” she said. “As we look ahead to the next few months, our intention is to create a new-look tourism industry that holistically reflects the new public health imperatives.”
Other airlines including Air Emirates and Air New Zealand are also trialing the pass, according to the IATA.
An official with the association told The Epoch Times this week that it does not support governments making COVID-19 vaccinations mandatory for travel.
U.S. companies are also developing so-called vaccine passports, which a slew of officials envision being required across different modes of transportation in the near future.
While enthusiasm for the passports is high among some, experts have expressed concern for the loss of freedom they represent.
“As we start to get this virus properly under control we should start getting our freedoms back. Vaccine passports—essentially COVID ID cards—take us in the other direction,” Ed Davey, leader of the Liberal Democrats in the UK, said recently.
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