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Updated: April 11, 2026 @ 6:06 pm
Editor,
Before we start celebrating that at last we’re getting back to normal life and you can throw your masks in the trash, read the fine print on Gov. Gavin Newsom’s “opening up” announcement. Beginning on Feb. 16, all who’ve been vaccinated may enter indoor businesses without having to wear a face mask.
How’s that likely to work? Let me guess.
First there will be an honor system. Then there will be questions asked: “Are you currently fully vaccinated for COVID including your booster shot?”
And then, bingo: Vaccine passports! Of course this was the plan all along.
By the way, a “vaccine passport” isn’t primarily about vaccines, which should by rights be no one’s business but your own — especially since we now know they don’t work. It is mainly about surveillance of your every move. And just wait till the powers-that-be insist you put all your bank accounts in digitized form on your “Vaccine Passport” where your access to cash can be controlled by your government.
That’s what the Communist Party in China did to their people, who now have to maintain their “Social Credit Score” in order to, well, buy food and medicine.
There’s a word for this: totalitarianism. While it may be de rigueur in China, it is anathema in America. It would mean the end of our rights and freedom. That’s why we must all, vaccinated or not, refuse vaccine passports.
Cherie Zaslawsky
Menlo Park
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(2) comments
Ms. Zaslawsky - Thanks for speaking up! Right on!
Thank you for your letter, Ms. Zaslawsky. Speaking of access to cash being controlled by a government, we can take a quick look up North and see what is happening under Fuhrer Justin. A cautionary tale for those of us in America. It may be more valuable to exercise your second amendment rights since your first amendment rights may be trampled on, as we may get a so-called leader similar to an Ottawa police chief saying he won’t tolerate Canadians participating the in the unlawful activity of engaging in demonstrations. Who knew participating in a demonstration is illegal? Here in America, we not only know that participating in a demonstration is legal, but destroying property worth over $1 billion is legal (assuming you claim to be BLM or Antifa). Folks, don’t forget that cash is king.
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