House Votes to Pass Bill Funding Federal Vaccination Database
Blueapples, Zero Hedge, Dec 3 2021
To many, the Biden Administration’s efforts to enforce a COVID-19 vaccine mandate is viewed as a clear imposition of medical tyranny by the iron fist of a technocratic government. Its enforcement marks the interference of the state into one’s own bodily autonomy, which is a premise seemingly ripped out of the pages of Aldous Huxley’s Brave New World. Widespread mandates, which were once chastised as a conspiracy theory are now among the many instances of theories which ultimately became reality. The latest in that trend appears to be the implementation of a database to track who is or isn’t vaccinated against COVID-19. Though dismissed in the past, that initiative has gained momentum following the passage of H.R. 550: [The] Immunization Infrastructure Modernization Act.
Initially introduced in January of this year by New Hampshire Representative Ann Kuster, H.R. 550 was referred to the House Committee on Energy and Commerce. That committee issued its final report on the resolution on November 30th before being voted on that same day. When the ayes finally had it, the act passed the house by a vote of 294-130. 214 of the 220 house democrats voted to pass the bill while 6 abstained from voting. Though each of the 130 votes against the act were cast by house republicans, 80 of them voted in its favor with 3 others abstaining. Upon its passage, the bill was referred to and read by the Senate, which referred it to its Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions where no formal date for a formal hearing on the matter has yet to be schedule.
The aim of the Immunization Infrastructure Modernization Act is purportedly to “expand, enhance, and improve immunization information systems (“IIS”)” by creating data and technology standards among in tandem with publicate-private partnerships that can integrate data on immunizations records between the disparate databases which contain them. The IISs which the act aims to amalgamate data of are present maintained by state, local, and tribal governments as well as private health care providers. The act also focuses on improving the supply chain necessary to distribute vaccines, with a particular focus on addressing areas with lower vaccination rates.
Although IISs already exist, the technological infrastructure of those systems predates the onset of the massive COVID-19 vaccination roll out which began in December 2020. While many state and local governments followed suit with an EU model by creating a vaccine passport system, that model for tracking COVID-19 vaccines among individuals hasn’t been implemented in the states across the US to the same degree. In that interest, another facet of the Immunization Infrastructure Modernization Act is to fund grants aimed at integrating efforts that can improve the functionality of existing IISs by implementing measures such as vaccine passport tracking.
Though many were implemented in as early as 1990, technology standards for existing IISs came under the direction of the Center for Disease Control in 2001. As such, the technology standards for IIS tracking of COVID-19 vaccinations under the Immunization Infrastructure Modernization Act would provide the CDC’s with centralized oversight on how states and local governments and private entities track individual’s vaccination status. The data shared by different IISs would be transmitted through the IZ Gateway, a cloud-based message routing service maintained by the CDC.
Previously, the Biden Administration announced an effort to gather the vaccination status of citizens by sending a task force door-to-door in places throughout the country. This was immediately chastised as a terrible invasion of privacy by critics. Senator Ted Cruz of Texas proposed a national ban on any national vaccine database to track that information, an effort which came to avail. Although the Biden Administration distanced itself from the premise of creating a national vaccine database, the Data Use and Sharing Agreement of the CDC-hosted IZ Gateway conveys the long standing efforts that the federal government’s has spent on constructing one. The agreement expresses an initiative fledged by the CDC, Department of Health Human Service, and their commercial partners in this very interest.
With popular support for nationwide vaccine mandates gaining serious momentum, the impact of real time tracking of an individual’s vaccination status represents an overarching apparatus that could be used to more effectively enforce limitations on people’s existing freedoms. As the CDC shifts its outlook on what is necessary to achieve and maintain full vaccination status, the ability to track that data would enable real-time enforcement of restrictions as well as being a crucial component to the advancement of its COVID-19 booster campaign, which has been called into question by the likes of the World Health Organization.
Regardless of the lack of scientific merit in the face of efforts led by the CDC, et al., it is clear that the powers vested in the forces promoting COVID-19 vaccines will be strengthened far beyond what was initially envisioned. The power that a national vaccine database would have is one of the clearest signs that the infrastructure necessary to advance a state of medical tyranny has already begun to be constructed. This charts a path ahead to further erode civil liberties under the collectivist lie of acting in the interest of public health, meaning that greater invasiveness into the lives of the unvaccinated is one thing that will be certain in a future that’s becoming increasingly precarious.
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