For those of you who thought the pandemic hysteria and the totalitarian results from it would magically disappear after Joe Biden's inauguration, you were, well…

…wrong.

As I wrote about in this article, there are currently two existing vaccine passports options, one being operational in the United States right now:

Common Pass: Created by Commons Project, this health pass has been in international use since October on United and Cathay Pacific flights between New York, London, Singapore, and Hong Kong. Common Pass operates via Apple's Health app on iOS and CommonHealth for Android. It connects to 230 US health systems. It functions as a scannable QR code and can store a passenger's test or vaccine data and travel plans. (It is not yet publicly available for download.)

IATA Travel Pass: Expected to launch in early 2021, IATA Travel Pass, is currently under development by the International Transport Association. According to the IATA website, the digital pass for travelers is: A global and standardized solution to validate and authenticate all country regulations regarding COVID-19 passenger travel requirements.

If you've ever left a pet at a kennel while you travel, you may be familiar with the process of proving your animals have had their shots against things like rabies and kennel cough. Now, it appears that humans, too, will have to prove they've "gotten their shots."

While we're certainly not objecting to anyone who wants the vaccine being able to get it, this push to make it essential to live a somewhat normal life is concerning for a number of reasons.

New York has begun a pilot program for their vaccine passport.

Always the first to pounce on a new opportunity to stifle personal freedom protect people from Covid (unless they happen to be nursing home residents), New York has begun a trial of a vaccine passport app.