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Originally Posted by Jay Random
I repeat, freedom of movement is a basic human right. We are talking about the government passing laws requiring people to carry a vaccination passport in order to enter private places.
All private businesses are requesting this? I happen to know that's not true. But the government will be applying the law to all private businesses and all citizens, whether they like it or not.
If you are forbidden to enter any place of business or any public building without a vaccine passport, your freedom of movement is gone. All it takes is for the government to revoke your passport, or refuse to issue you one, and you are under effective house arrest.
If there is nowhere that you are allowed to associate, then you do not have freedom of association.
Tens of millions of Soviet citizens were forbidden to travel at all for decades, because you were not permitted to travel without an internal passport and the officials responsible refused to issue such passports to whole classes of people.
Any state agency is capable of oppressing people if the laws are written to allow it – or if the officials of that agency are allowed to break the law without punishment. Both these things are depressingly common in human history, and you do not have to look far to find examples even today.
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1. Private places can generally refuse service to anyone for a large array of reasons. In the past, vaccination status has already been used in this sense. The law is actually in the reverse sense: there are limited number of reasons that you can't be refused entry for. Vaccination status isn't among them. Governments also routinely set rules for private establishments on who can enter. It's why 17 year olds aren't allowed in bars.
2. No one is proposing that unvaccinated people would not be allowed to freely associate with each other on their own private property. It's just endangering other people with their lack of vaccination that people have a problem with.
3. your comparison of vaccine passports to soviet travel restrictions and chinese social credit programs is... hilarious.