The Centers for Disease Control, and President Joe Biden, have decided that “fully vaccinated” people, by which they mean people who are 14 days past their final vaccine dose, no longer need to wear masks in public, other than in some specialized and crowded conditions, such as hospitals, nursing homes, or prisons.

The new advice comes with caveats. Even vaccinated individuals must cover their faces and physically distance when going to doctors, hospitals or long-term care facilities like nursing homes; when traveling by bus, plane, train or other modes of public transportation, or while in transportation hubs like airports and bus stations; and when in prisons, jails or homeless shelters.

William Teach noted President Biden’s declarative tweet that “The rule is now simple: get vaccinated or wear a mask until you do. The choice is yours.” The President, of course, has no authority in any of this: the mask mandates which existed were issued not by the federal governments, save on federal property or in federally licensed transportation modes, but by state Governors.

But for the left authoritarians, that ain’t good enough!

Vaccine passports (or QR codes) now! If you don’t want to get vaccinated, that’s your right. But it’s not your right to go to a concert, bar, restaurant, or large event. https://t.co/p4g9pGUpvr

— Jill Filipovic (@JillFilipovic) May 14, 2021

Streiff from RedState noted that “her inner fascist emerges,” as though we didn’t already know about it. I do wonder if the lovely Mrs McCormick^[1]Jill Filipovic is married to a gentleman named Ty McCormick, a senior editor of Foreign Affairs. I always show the proper respect for married ladies by referring to their proper names. thinks we should do things the old-fashioned way, as the Germans pioneered it some eighty years ago, or whether she’d like something 21^st century, like implantable, scannable microchips.

It’s kind of amusing that the left want everybody to have a #VaccinePassport to be allowed to do almost anything, but are wholly resistant to the concept of requiring identification to vote.

More amusing, though sadly so, are all of the messages from people complaining that there is no enforcement mechanism. One guy tweeted, “I hope you have a plan to track people who are not vaxxed. Otherwise, no one will wear masks. This is scaring me.” There are thousands upon thousands of other like-minded sheeple.

The vaccine itself? Yeah, I’ve had it; first dose on April Fool’s Day, and the second on Cinco de Mayo, something I find mildly amusing. I think it wise to get vaccinated. But I’ll lay in Hell before I carry around a ‘vaccine passport’!

We have reached the state — actually, we reached that point in March of 2020! — that it is more important to fight for freedom and liberty and our constitutional rights than it is to fight this disease! The ‘progressives,’ to whom William Teach refers as “nice fascists”, would surrender all of our freedoms, because they value compliance over liberty.