Disclaimer: only a semi-informed view creating my opinion
Iβm not a political analyst. Iβm not a broadcasting soap-box speaker. I’m not a religious fanatic. I’m not a great conspiracy theorist – though I do love a good theory! In fact, Iβm not anybody other than a concerned citizen who has a little bit of knowledge about a lot of things – none of which amount to much.
If you haven’t read the Book of Revelation, the last book of the Bible, then it might be an interesting read in the context of the past year. More importantly, though, just put on a rational, unemotionally-charged, objective hat for the time-being.
Imagine:
You’ve gotten COVID-19. Your body managed to fight it off, but from the day of your positive test you are required to carry a card with you showing that you have been infected. This card prevents you from going into undesignated supermarkets. You are no longer allowed to attend public events like concerts, shows, performances, or the like. You may not enter museums, libraries or any other cultural or public facility. Basically, all you will be allowed to do is work – probably only from home -, and go only where your card is accepted.
How do you feel considering a world like this? You’d be part of a minority population that is not allowed to live life like other people, but it’s for the sake of the greater good. I mean, after all, lepers were pushed into island communities, native inhabitants of lands were pushed onto reservations, history has shown that it has been done, ignored, and accepted.
Still don’t like it?
Well, the concept of this quietly growing acceptance of a ‘green’ passport/certificate is no different. It’s already started with the proud selfies of those bragging about getting their vaccines and showing their cards as proof. People selfishly express their hope for the ‘green’ implementation if it means their lives go back to “normal”. Self-righteous expressions on social media and other online platforms aggressively dismiss and defy any sense of logic, empathy, or rationality of what this means.
A COVID-19 vaccine will be considered the expected ‘green’ pass to return to a life that people think will be ‘normal’. When masses started calling the pandemic way of life the “new norm”, it drove me crazy. When masses started claiming wearing a mask, social distancing, and isolation was for the benefit of others, it drove me crazy. When masses started raving that getting vaccinated is the golden ticket to being able to have life as we knew it, it. drove. me. crazy. It ALL drives me crazy.
People shout about a belief in science. People shout about a desire to be able to live again. People shout about what they want to be able to do again…. me, me, me, me. Yet, these arguments and conversations deny reality and truth.
As of today, 2.1% of COVID-19 cases result in deaths, leaving an 82% recovery rate. An even smaller percentage of side effects in the vaccines have been discovered and YET we are still encouraged to carry on. A minority group is defining the rules and actions of the a majority that could have and still could carry on as actually normal.
My point? How is it that something that has an extremely small percentage of death to a minority population of people has caused nations to shut down, businesses to collapse, lives lost from the decisions made surrounding the pandemic, etc. etc.? The impact on the majority to protect a minority has been so disproportional and YET NO ONE talks about that! (Yes, that was a little shout there. π )
So, then, let’s play out what this all-saving ‘green’ passport/certificate will actually do.
IF you have not been sick and chosen not to get vaccinated, you will not have said pass. Without the card, you cannot go into supermarkets. You cannot go to public events or use public/cultural facilities. This ‘green’ pass will be your “mark of the beast” in Revelation terminology. Israel has already started to implement this, but the disparity that is resulting has already started to show itself. While it may not yet be a currency replacement, it is far too easily becoming a gate-pass. In this case, the majority rules the minority, but only because it is more convenient for the powers that be.
Let’s continue along this path. Right now, vaccinations are free. However, in time, variants will continue to increase; therefore, regular updates of the vaccine will be required. Therefore, your ‘green’ pass will need to be regularly updated, but over time it will cost to get the shot. It might start at a small amount, but – as is already in the UK – it costs over Β£100 for one COVID test – not even the vaccine. At the moment, people who want to travel must have at least two tests since the vaccine cannot yet be required. Thus, to travel, an extra Β£200 some is required on top of flight/train fares. Over time, just as we have accepted taxes or increase oil prices affecting ticket fares, we will come to accept the cost of a test or vaccine to go anywhere – except this will also be required to live daily FREE life.
What happens to those who cannot afford it?
People were already struggling to make ends meet before the world shut down. Now, either people have become even more dependent on the government welfare systems or gone into further debt, or in whatever way worsened their financial stability thanks to our economic shutdown for, let me remind you, 2.1% of a population dying – most of whom are not contributors to the economy anyway. So, this minority group has controlled the majority, but will draw disparity lines even further when considering how will people who have already been struggling be able to afford regular tests and vaccines to continue to work, travel, or live daily FREE life?
The answer is – they won’t.
So, while the masses can cry out that they’ll do anything just so life can return to normal (for them), or that everyone should do what is right (so the masses can see their families or go on vacations again), not a single person that I know has shown an iota of care, concern, sympathy or (dare I expect) empathy towards what all of this is leading to. I wanted to blame it on uneducated minds, but the truth is that the finger cannot be so easily pointed outward. Rather, it’s about the selfishness, short-sightedness, and self-serving mentality of individuals who have lost sight of humanity, decency and what it means to be a society of people, where the majority should consider and care for the minority because we are all part of one human race.
Not Unto Ourselves Alone Are We Born
Non Nobis Solum Nati Sumus ~ Cicero
Who knew I would be quoting my undergraduate alma mater’s motto, but perhaps it is not a coincidence that I do so…
~ T
