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CDC Demands Personal Data on Covid-19 Vaccine Recipients

US states looking to obtain Covid-19 vaccines are being asked to give extensive details on jab recipients to the Centers for Disease Control – data many worry is ripe for abuse – according to the contract they’re required to sign.

Several states have balked when confronted with the CDC’s Data Use and Sharing Agreement (DUA), which they are asked to sign in order to receive their allotment of any Covid-19 vaccine approved by the Food and Drug Administration. The agreement requires the state or territory to turn over the names, addresses, birthdates, and ethnic profiles of jab recipients – and gives the CDC a disturbingly free hand to do what it wishes with that information.

The agency has tried to downplay the volume of information it is demanding from states, explaining in the DUA that it ā€œhas sought minimally necessary data elements for the public health purposes,ā€ forgoing such juicy bits as ā€œsocial security numbers, driver’s license numbers, or passport numbers.ā€ While admitting that further information could be collected from jab recipients in the future, the CDC insists ā€œany changes to the data elements will be in consultation withā€ local governments.

While the data-sharing agreement seeks to reassure states that all personally identifying information will be protected en route to the centralized government database that will store the data, the CDC reportedly has not yet adopted an encryption system capable of securing that data, and the possibility of breaches is very real. The CDC has pledged to notify affected jurisdictions within an hour if personally identifiable information is stolen, and within 24 hours if a breach involves ā€œnon-personally identifying information.ā€ Both possibilities look disturbing to those who recall stories about March’s mega-hack into the CDC, National Institutes of Health, and World Health Organization.

Even if security measures function as intended, some privacy-conscious local governments are worried by the sheer number of health officials, private contractors, tech support people, and ā€œother agentsā€ who will receive ā€œauthorized userā€ status and access to states’ supposedly private information. Even the former head of the CDC’s immunization program, Dr. Walter Orenstein, told the New York Times he didn’t understand why the agency needed access to states’ personally identifiable health data.

The CDC has promised not to use vaccination data to ā€œmarket commercial services to individual patients or non-patients, to assist in bill collection services, or for any civil or criminal prosecution,ā€ including immigration enforcement, an issue New York Governor Andrew Cuomo specifically cited last month in explaining why he had not signed over New York’s vaccination data. 

Other states, like Pennsylvania, have laws on the books that would normally prohibit them from sharing patient health information, even with federal authorities.

Warp Speed personnel revealed last week that 17 of the 68 US ā€œjurisdictionsā€ had not returned their signed DUAs to the CDC, and while program officials acknowledged during a Monday presser that ā€œa handfulā€ of jurisdictions remain outstanding, they claimed the holdouts would sign and return their agreements by the end of the week.

Those agreements might be missing data the CDC has demanded – Minnesota, for example, has pledged it will not submit patients’ ā€œname, ZIP code, race, ethnicity or address.ā€ Instead, the state will submit ā€œde-identified doses-administered data,ā€ according to a spokesman for the Minnesota Department of Health.

The dispute remains academic for now, as the Food and Drug Administration has not yet given emergency authorization to any of the leading Covid-19 vaccine candidates. However, frontrunner Pfizer, whose vaccine has already been approved by the UK, has ā€œpre-positionedā€ shipments of its formula across the US. Operation Warp Speed military director Army General Gustave Perna confirmed that the administration hopes to begin vaccinating people within 24 hours of the jab’s approval, putting further pressure on the FDA to green light the drug.

Previous efforts to create a federal vaccination database have been spiked for violating Americans’ privacy. Warp Speed officials have attempted to frame the unprecedented medical tracking of Americans as a ā€œwhole of America approachā€ to vaccination, and the Department of Health and Human Services has – somewhat belatedly – announced it is ā€œexploring solutionsā€ to protect privacy.

However, the National Governors Association has warned that mass data collection will only increase vaccine hesitancy and distrust of medical authorities, a major issue given that fewer than half of Americans are willing to be among the first group to take a jab that has been rushed to market in under a year. – RT.com

Brick by brick, they are building the foundation of a technocratic dictatorship, where technology maximizes the potential of gathering huge datasets to control society with pre-encoded algorithms, because like we said a very long time ago, governance is a gargantuan task especially when the primordial objective is to protect the interest of the privileged sector of our society, against the interest of the people it has sworn to protect and serve.

The only way to do that effectively is to link and automate everything, through the full digitization of financial, medical, education, political and ongoing personal activity, so that potential dissent can be averted ahead of, or in real time.

Of course, releasing all useful technologies can also avert any future dissent by inducing higher quality of life, but they would lose their grip and advantage over the rest of the population. The Oligarchy wants to be viewed as something special to be worshiped. That’s the root cause of all of this, i.e. the desire to be appreciated, and to be in the limelight, all the time.

Off-grid living is never complete without your own off-grid healthcare system. In fact, that is one of the most critical components on how you can successfully live outside of the dog-eat-dog paradigm. A real off-grid healthcare technology is already being used to suppress any pandemic, destroy injectable microbots, and it offers many distinct advantages not attributable to mainstream conventions.

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