List of States/Governments/Politicians Moving to Ban Vaccine Passports
POSTED BY: 6ixStringJack
UPDATED: Tuesday, August 18, 2026 20:23
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Today wasn't entirely fruitless...
I've whittled down the number of states with no info to the following:
Illinois
New Mexico
Oklahoma
Oregon
Vermont
Virginia
West Virginia
Illinois is tricky, because Chicago is running independent of the rest of the state as per usual. I'm going to have to do a lot of work on that one I think, so I'm saving that for last.
Kentucky's completely in a bubble. Their local news doesn't mention this issue at all.
Maine and Nevada have a few opinion columns about it, but it seems legislators aren't talking about it there.
The Governors of Massachusetts and Mississippi have both waived off any notion of passports nearly a month ago, but no talk at all since then. I think either one of them would cave in and do it if pressured from what I read.
This takes a lot of effort doing the deep dives. Especially on my old and slow computer.
That being said, I wish I had taken note of the sites that look identical from state to state and have an identical Search function with nearly identical search results.
If you look into this yourself, I think you'll walk away feeling that a large majority of so-called "local" papers are all just local branches of something much larger.
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Imagine the hypocrisy of a government who will allow businesses to card people to get a job or buy groceries, but won't card people to vote in elections and gives millions of non-citizens free money from taxpayers.
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Sadly, as vocal as Governor Kim Reynolds was in the early days of this issue, I have to move Iowa to the half-ass ban section. The new legislation that is going through the motions allows employers to fire employees who aren't vaccinated.
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Imagine the hypocrisy of a government who will allow businesses to card people to get a job or buy groceries, but won't card people to vote in elections and gives millions of non-citizens free money from taxpayers.
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Waste of Carbon JB Pritzker came out and said that Illinois won't be issuing vaccine passports, but they're already making a system for people to request one since you're probably not going to be able to actually do anything in Illinois without one soon.
Putting Illinois in the Fully Embrace category for now, but I'll move it if it needs to be.
No more real news popping up from over the weekend. I'll try to whittle down the remaining list of 6 states I hadn't gathered info on. I should have at least SOMETHING on every state by the end of the week, even if that something is to say that there's nothing.
ETA: Got through three more states with almost zero information locally about the issue.
I'll get the rest of them this week. Only Vermont, Virginia and West Virginia left to go.
Not that I care to make it a habit to go through the laborious process of these deep dives in the future, I have also added date tags to when I searched so I don't forget the last time I checked.
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Give me liberty or just come shoot me in my house. I'm so over this ridiculous reality.
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I finally finished cleaning up the doc and dating everything (except for the "Other Stories", which I might also choose to go through and date as well since that could be interesting).
I now have information on every state, even if it's to say that the state isn't talking about it at all, and finished the preliminary deep dives into the local papers.
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The Constitution Requires the U.S. to Offer Vaccine Passports
The concept of vaccine passports has opened a new fissure in the COVID culture wars. Many liberals and libertarians—and a slim majority of Americans—support them, while many conservatives call them unjust, even unconstitutional discrimination. On this last point, however, U.S. constitutional law is clear: The government can limit certain rights and privileges to only the vaccinated, especially during a pandemic. So the more pertinent question now isn’t whether vaccine passports are allowed; it’s whether they are required—whether the Constitution entitles vaccinated people to receive exemptions from many COVID restrictions. We believe it does.
The term vaccine passport essentially has two different meanings. The first is simply an electronic or paper record showing the holder’s vaccination status, like Canada’s “CANImmunize” credential, the World Health Organization’s yellow fever vaccination “Yellow Card,” or a COVID vaccine card.
More controversially, vaccine passport has come to mean a policy in which the government and businesses exempt vaccinated people from certain restrictions. Beneficiaries are allowed to travel, avoid quarantine, attend sporting/political/arts events, eat in restaurants, and/or patronize other businesses, with few or no restrictions. Those without this credential may face ongoing significant restrictions until a community reaches herd immunity. Many countries like Israel and Denmark already have such a system in place, and for U.S residents, they’re already being implemented for university enrollment and outgoing international travel.
Here’s why governments may be constitutionally required to provide a vaccine passport program for people under continuing restrictions. Under the U.S. Constitution, the government may not tread on fundamental rights unless the policy is “the least restrictive means” to achieve a “compelling” government interest. Even some rights considered nonfundamental may not be infringed without a rational or non-arbitrary reason. Before vaccines, blanket lockdowns, quarantines, and bans on things like travel, public gatherings, and church attendance were a necessary measure to slow the pandemic. The various legal challenges to these measures mostly failed—rightly, in our view. But now, a small but growing set of the population is fully vaccinated, with high efficacy for preventing transmission and success rates at preventing serious illness close to 99 percent or higher.
Facilitating mass immunity—and exempting the immunized from restrictions—is now both the least liberty-restrictive method for ending the pandemic through herd immunity and the most effective one. Imagine a fully vaccinated person whose livelihood is in jeopardy from ongoing travel or business restrictions. She might go to court and argue: “I present little or no danger to the public. So restricting my freedoms and preventing me from contributing to society and the economy isn’t rational, let alone the least restrictive means of protecting the public. Since you’re not lifting restrictions for everyone, the Constitution requires that I be exempt.”
This argument alone should be enough to justify mandating that passports be made available where COVID restrictions are still in place. But public health experts tell us that there are others. Throughout the world, vaccine hesitancy is a barrier to achieving herd immunity. Over a quarter of Americans—and a majority in some areas—say they will not get vaccinated. By offering an additional “carrot” of expanded privileges and freedoms, vaccine passports would nudge at least some to overcome their hesitancy, protecting many additional people from the virus.
Opponents of vaccine passports—such as American conservatives and progressives in Europe and Israel—cite equity or fairness: It’s inappropriate or even unconstitutional, they say, to give some people but not others certain rights. Many conservatives say that the passports coerce people into accepting a vaccine in exchange for recovering th
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^ INCORRECT.
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Quote:6ix, you will never need legal help because you know more about the law than any lawyer.
Originally posted by 6ixStringJack:
^ INCORRECT.
Plus, you work for free!
The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at www.mediafire.com/folder/1uwh75oa407q8/Firefly
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Quote:
Originally posted by second:Quote:6ix, you will never need legal help because you know more about the law than any lawyer.
Originally posted by 6ixStringJack:
^ INCORRECT.
Plus, you work for free!
The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at www.mediafire.com/folder/1uwh75oa407q8/Firefly
41 years and that's been the case so far.
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Hide your kids...
https://latestnews.in.net/pfizer-will-seek-approval-to-give-covid-vacc
ine-to-children/
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Give me liberty or just come shoot me in my house. I'm so over this ridiculous reality.
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