Thread by @george_jazzcat

THREAD
1) The announcement by the EU that vax passes will be needed for travel as of July 1, 2021 is profoundly disturbing. The pass is being positioned as the "great liberator" which will allow people to take their "well earned holidays" It's nothing of the sort

2) It is a sinister move by the European Union, less than 80 years after the Nurenberg trials, to introduce discriminatory measures by dividing society into the "clean" and the "unclean" If we believe that the C19 vaccines are effective, then this paranoia is misplaced

3) Get vaccinated and you are protected. The vax status of the person standing next to you on the train shouldn't concern you. Therefore, the EU is signaling not only its intent to divide but also its lack of trust in the vaccine. I note with substantial sadness

4) that it's once again Germany, a country responsible for so much suffering 80 - 90 years ago, that is spearheading this initiative. Obviously, though the country seems completely rehabilitated, there are still forces extant which desire control and harbor designs

5) for re-engineering society. Some think the vaccine passport is a gateway to a grander control scheme Possibly. But even on its own it's a shameful idea - one that Israel has stepped back from.
Meanwhile, Justin Trudeau (who has openly admitted his admiration for China)

6) is introducing measures in Canada that rival and surpass even the EU efforts. For all intents and purposes, Canada is a garrison state. The country - which has 40 million inhabitants and a territory larger than the US) only allows 4 airports to be open:

7) Montreal, Toronto, Calgary and Vancouver (international travel) Each airport has a "quarantine hotel" attached, where for $3000 you'll have the luxury of eating stale ham sandwiches for 3 days, upon which - assuming a negative test - you will be released into

8) the custody of your relatives, where you'll spend another 10 days in isolation, with frequent phone calls and VISITS from public health people to make sure you can't even go for a walk. Canada's rate of C19 infection is one of the lowest in the world. The ICU's are below

9) capacity and the lockdown in Ontario is the toughest - and now the longest - in the world. Unemployment keeps rising, thousands of businesses have been permanently destroyed. Toronto, once one of the most vibrant metropolitan areas in N America, is now a terrible place

10) the traffic jams remain but the theaters, galleries, cafes, opera, movies, great restaurants - gone! In the meantime, the average price of a tiny 1000 sq f home is 1.3 million. A paradox no one has been able to explain to me. The kicker: 70 + percent of the population

11) agrees with all government measures and enthusiastically claps every additional restriction the feds and/or the provincial governments put in place.
In short: the march towards out and out fascism is here. We can choose to be passive and wait for the storm to pass

12) (the Jews did that in 1933 in Germany and we know how that worked out for them) or we can actively oppose these measures wherever we are. Any single act of protest can start a chain. The more followers I'll get here, the louder I'll shout about it.

13) I lived under an oppressive communist tyranny. I know how precious freedom is. To deserve freedom, we must fight the evil doers who would snatch it from us. I believe we can do it but the road is long and hard.
TRUTH SHALL PREVAIL