São Paulo retreats, will now require vaccination passport only for sports, fairs and congresses
RIO DE JANEIRO, BRAZIL – The São Paulo city government has backed down from the decision to force bars, restaurants, and shopping centers to require a vaccination passport for customers to visit their establishments. The city’s health secretary, Edson Aparecido, said suddenly it was only a “recommendation”.
“The mayor [Ricardo Nunes] has announced that events in the capital will require the passport, the creation of which we will provide. Games, fairs, congresses, etc. The rest is a recommendation,” Aparecido told the newspaper Agora late Monday afternoon (23).
Earlier, Mayor Ricardo Nunes (MDB) told a press conference at the Vila Olímpia shopping center in the south of the city that the measure would also apply to bars, restaurants, and shopping centers. “Yes, yes, yes,” he said in response to a reporter’s question.
When asked to explain Nunes’ speech and the sudden change of course, the city administration did not respond at the time of this report’s publication.
REGISTRATION
Aparecido said that by Friday (27), an application with proof of vaccination would be launched for use by São Paulo residents in restaurants and other indoor spaces.
He added that it would be necessary to direct the cell phone to a QR code in the establishment, which must also have the application. From there, it will be communicated whether the customer has been vaccinated with at least one dose of the vaccine against the new coronavirus.
TWO-TIER SOCIETY
Many fear that forcing people to use a vaccine passport will lead to a two-class society: the “vaccinated”, who can move freely, and an underclass of the “unvaccinated”, denied access to many things.
That is why tens of thousands of protesters took to the streets across France for the fifth straight week to demonstrate against the government’s coronavirus (Covid-19) vaccine passport mandate.
Germany and France are among the most aggressive European countries when it comes to enforcing the vaccine passport.
As a result, they are not only facing massive protests from their respective populations but are directly responsible for the renewed rise of the far-right National Rally party (formerly Front National) in France and the populist AfD party in Germany.
Both parties condemn the mainstream covid narrative and are vehemently against the introduction of the vaccination passport.
INFORMATION WAR ON COVID VACCINES
São Paulo’s flirtation with the vaccination passport comes at a time when the information war over Covid vaccines is gaining momentum, and the narratives about whether they really protect or, on the contrary, could harm peopl,e are increasingly controversial.
On the one hand, there are vaccine advocates who believe the original promises of the authorities that vaccination is safe and essential for survival.
On the other hand, recent studies have shown that mRNA vaccines decrease the body’s immune defenses, with possible unintended consequences, which is exactly the opposite of the original promise of vaccines.
The New York Times recently ran an article entitled, “Israel, Once the Model for Beating Covid, Faces New Surge of Infections.”
The article openly admits that covid vaccines are given to 2.5 billion people around the world no longer work very well and that the people who took those vaccines are now the ones getting sick and dying.
If it turns out that Covid vaccines are indeed not only failing to deliver the promised results but, on the contrary, are harmful, cities having forced their residents to take the shot(s) for them to keep participating in society would likely face a flood of lawsuits.
The introduction of a covid pass, which restricts or prohibits access to public life, according to its opponents, is ultimately nothing more than coercing people who do not want to be vaccinated to get the shot(s) against their will. Otherwise, they will no longer be able to participate fully in society.
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