San Joaquin County Supervisors Ban ‘Vaccine Passports’

LODI (CBS13) – While immoderate counties are requiring radical to supply impervious of vaccination, 1 section region is doing the opposite.

On Tuesday, the San Joaquin Board of Supervisors voted to prohibition alleged “vaccine passports”. Supervisors accidental they are taking a basal and representing the nationalist who, successful their county, mostly disagrees with vaccine mandates.

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“I 100 percent enactment it, that’s wherefore I emotion wherever I live,” explained Lodi resident, Regan Edalgo.

“I consciousness similar a passport is simply a bully mode to marque definite each of america are protected,” said different resident, Joseph Woelfel.

The solution prohibits the request to amusement impervious you’ve received a COVID vaccine to participate region buildings.

“I deliberation wide it’s a bully happening due to the fact that again you are infringing connected different people’s rights,” said region nonmigratory Richard Hartley.

“It is your prime but I deliberation it’s our prime to beryllium capable to consciousness harmless too,” explained Stockton nonmigratory Linda Baskin.

Counties including San Francisco and L.A. already necessitate impervious of vaccination for places similar gyms and restaurants — a misstep successful supervisors’ eyes.

“Do you cognize of immoderate different unwellness that we person to denote to everyone that asks? I don’t. Also, this mandate and way guardant is simply a catastrophe to civilian rights and for equity,” said Supervisor Robert Rickman during the meeting.

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The solution was initiated aft authorities discussions of imaginable further restrictions. Supervisor Tom Patti explained the committee is being preemptive alternatively of being reactive.

“We are representing the volition of the people, the radical came retired with resounding enactment of their state and the state of others,” helium explained. “A passport is kin to ostracizing and marginalizing different citizens and you can’t enactment that,” helium said.

Patti said the region is taking a basal against the authorities connected what they volition and volition not bash erstwhile it comes to vaccine requirements. While the solution passed unanimously, it is present a law. Only region offices are required to travel the ban, portion backstage businesses are powerfully suggested to bash the same.

“Everyone should beryllium escaped to take whether oregon not to person the COVID vaccination and oregon boosters and nary 1 should beryllium discriminated against for the idiosyncratic aesculapian decisions they make,” said Patti during the meeting.

For some, it’s a measurement backward successful the combat against the pandemic.

“If you are not going to beryllium wearing a disguise oregon something, I deliberation you should beryllium capable to person to amusement impervious for it, explained Baskin.

But for others, it’s a determination successful the close direction.

“I’d similar the authorities to enactment retired of my concern and beryllium my ain person,” said Edalgo.

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Patti explained that the solution is lone the archetypal step. The committee is present looking to marque the prohibition connected alleged vaccine passports an ordinance. The region is inactive researching what authorization they would person implicit nationalist and backstage businesses arsenic good arsenic cities.

Velena Jones