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To: Haim R. Branisteanu who wrote (178191)	9/12/2021 2:48:34 PM
From: maceng2	1 Recommendation Recommended By ggersh Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 217704

<<permitted to say that you are a bit too naïve.>> Of course you are. You can be frank as you wish. I don't expect justice to prevail. Huge sacrifices have to be made before things are corrected usually. So, I didn't exactly come down with yesterday’s rain. But I have an idea when the opposition is beginning to run out of steam & running into problems. The "opposition" in this case are the "planet lockdown" people. In the CSPAN September 10th 2001 link I showed earlier Rumsfeld pompously said central planning was dead. He was wrong of course. There was a lot of central planning from that date up until today. Rumsfeld was a big a "central planner" as any communist that I know of. Today, with the Medical Martial Law we have, Private business is being wiped out of existence, and only corrupt monopolies will remain. "Central Planning" is all the rage today. Every news outlet repeats the same news ... you have seen examples of that yes? It's planet wide. Yet I am the naive one? Sure, OK. I will take that information onboard.

To: Haim R. Branisteanu who wrote (178191)	9/13/2021 5:28:28 AM
From: TobagoJack	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 217704

Haim, my friend in Israel, is it fair to suspect that 'they' are developing the new arrival-protocol on foreign visitors first, and eventually shall apply the technology to domestics? zerohedge.com Israel To Conduct COVID "Genetic Scanning" For All Inbound Air Passengers The world's most "ultra-vaxxed nation" Israel is continuing to struggle to keep its coronavirus infections down, despite enacting some of the most stringent rules and requirements on its population, including rolling out one of the earliest versions of a vaccine passport to visit public venues, which has to be "updated" each six months or so based on a booster shot timeline. Now Israel will go so far as to conduct "genetic scanning" for travelers arriving in the country. It's considered a huge and experimental high tech step in screening inbound passengers for coronavirus infections at Ben Gurion International Airport in Tel Aviv. Image via Reuters Prime Minister Naftali Bennett made the announcement at a meeting of his cabinet on Sunday, confirming plans to eventually deploy it at Ben Gurion. "We are working on a scanning system for everyone who comes into Israel," Bennett said. The statements were reportedly not intended to be made public, but were leaked to local Israeli media. "Israel will thus become the radar for the virus," he added. However, no further details on how the 'genetic scanning' will work were given, nor whether there might be an opt-out mechanism. Thus a Covid passport, which Israel calls its "green pass" - may be linked to an eventual regimen of forced genetic testing at international travel points. The technology, which will no doubt be hugely controversial given privacy concerns, is being discussed as part of Israeli efforts to keep further Covid variants from entering the country, as The Times of Israel describes: Bennett expressed support for Social Equality Minister Meirav Cohen, who had warned that "the next variant will come to Israel through Ben Gurion," saying the proposed genetic testing would help prevent that from happening. Conventionally since the start of the pandemic airports have often monitored passengers' temperatures with a quick and simple thermometer scan of their foreheads, but Israeli health officials are now seeking a method which might given greater certitude over whether someone has the virus or not, and especially whether they are carrying a variant. Tel Aviv's Ben Gurion Airport, file image Again though it remains unclear precisely how the genetic scanning will work, it brings up the question over just what genetic data/DNA will be preserved on each individual. The initiative suggests that for any foreign traveler entering Israel, they will have to agree to hand over their personal genetic data to potentially be stored by the Israeli government for all time.

To: Haim R. Branisteanu who wrote (178191)	9/13/2021 5:47:50 AM
From: TobagoJack	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 217704

OTOH, new protocols happening in my neighbourhood, and in this below event in a Jewish-family controlled and HK-listed company, Cathay Pacific, our HK flag-carrying airline. On the one hand I am guessing that passengers would prefer to be served by vaxx-ed staff, in case the vaccine works. OTOH if I was a Cathay staff, I would prefer to be vaccinated only after I know whatever the liquid is safe, never mind whether useful. The safety is the dominant issue here, arraying the possibilities to the individual and group of staff, against the counter-possibilities of passengers. Very selfish of the staff who refused vaccination, and very selfish of would-be passengers wishing to be served only by vaxx-ed staff. Very tough call. Anyway, Cathay called it, in HK, a precedent. scmp.com Coronavirus: Cathay Pacific gets discrimination warning after firing unvaccinated aircrew; city confirms 1 imported case Head of city’s Equal Opportunities Commission says axed aircrew can file complaint with watchdog if they feel they have been treated differently One flight attendant says she was axed despite providing carrier with evidence of heart ‘issues’ that raised concerns over her getting jab A Labour Department spokesman said employees might consider filing claims against their employers over unreasonable variations to the terms of their contracts, although there were not provisions for the particular circumstances surrounding Covid-19 vaccination in the city’s employment ordinance. The Post has contacted Cathay Pacific for comment. Chu, who declined to comment on the flight attendant’s case, said if workers were unable to perform basic duties without a valid medical excuse, dismissal might be one option, but transferring them to another department was also a possibility. The watchdog had received a total of 129 inquiries and eight complaints relating to differential treatment because of vaccination status as of last month, he added.