They’re as hard or harder to get than voter IDs.

Not unlike a nation occupied by a foreign power, everyone in Chicago, Cook County and other Blue Team jurisdictions will have to show their papers if they want to go, well, just about anywhere public.

Those papers documenting that you have been fully vaccinated against Covid-19 variants will be as difficult or even more so to get than what it takes to get identification that proves you are eligible to vote–something that Progressives/Democrats/Liberals insist is so difficult for minorities that it is “systemically racist”

But there’s not a peep out of the Blue Team crowd about how a system that requires you to carry a vaccination card is just as racist.

Cook County lays it out in its “Cook County Department of Public Health Mitigation Guidance.” The title might lead you to believe that this is merely suggested guidance, but it’s far from it. The “Guidance” is actually an “order” that demands that you carry “valid forms of verification” that include a “valid photo ID” if you’re 16 or older plus a “vaccination card,” or a “photocopy of a vaccination card,” or a “digital record or app,” or a “printed record from vaccine provider.” Even children as young as 5 must be documented.

In other words, you not only must have a document that proves that you have been fully vaccinated plus the same kind of ID that should be required to prove you are eligible to vote. Does this make any sense?

According to the county “mitigation” orders, you cannot enter the following stores, establishments, institutions and more without a valid ID (and a mask):

Indoor dining establishments, including bars, breweries, wine / spirit tasting rooms, restaurants, private clubs, country clubs, banquet halls, dining areas within any public business that is ancillary to the main business (cafes within grocery stores, other retail, etc.) coffee shops, food courts and food halls;
Event spaces, including hotel ballrooms and commercial event and party venues and nightclubs.
Recreation and entertainment venues in areas where food or beverages are served, including movie theaters, live performance spaces, including live theater and live music, sports arenas, skating rinks, adult entertainment venues, arcades, bowling alleys, play spaces, family entertainment centers, billiard halls, and venues for card playing; and
All indoor settings for recreation and exercise, including health clubs, gyms, fitness centers, hotel fitness centers, recreation centers, yoga studios, cross-fit studios, cycling studios, dance studios, fieldhouses, boxing and kickboxing gyms, and other facilities conducting group fitness classes indoors.

You’ve got to read the entire “Guidance,” if you want to get a sense of what a bureaucratic wet dream this is. Among its jewels is the requirement that “Businesses are required to post signage that advises their patrons of this requirement at the public entrances of the business.” It even provides “sample signs” in Spanish and English, as a courtesy I suppose for the small businesses that suddenly are confronted by yet another government regulation. (The sample is shown at the top of this post.)

Certain exemptions to the rule are graciously allowed, “such as houses of worship.” And for “nonresident” performers and athletes. (But not for resident performers and athletes?)

Ironically, an exemption is granted for voting:

Any person entering a business subject to this Order for the purposes of voting in a municipal, state, or federal election; or, pursuant to law, assisting or accompanying a voter or observing such elections.

I suppose if polling places were not exempt, a vaccination ID would be in effect a voter ID. Can’t have that.

Four pages of details are laid out for businesses–meaning more mandates, more forms and more instructions about how use employees. Like:

Businesses are NOT expected or required to maintain copies of CDC Vaccination Record Cards or similar, but ARE required to document verification and compliance with this Public Health Order. Such documentation should be in writing and must be available for inspection upon request of any County official authorized to enforce this Order. A suggested template for documentation is provided in Section 5.

Thankfully, you won’t need a vaccination card to use a public restroom or grabbing a latte. Thus:

Individuals entering an establishment for less than 10 minutes for ordering and carrying out food; making a delivery; or using restroom facilities.

By the way, the “guidance” about masks thankfully gives an exemption for people “while masked, like facials or beard and mustache trims.” Man, if they hadn’t told us, barbers would be trying to give shaves under the masks.

I can hear bureaucrats tasked with writing these regulations saying, “Oh goody. Another chance to run everyone’s life. To give everyone rules that are so detailed that nothing is left out.” As of Ed McMahon had been resurrected to say, “Everything you need to know is right there in those four pages!”

This is the monster that has been unleashed by Blue Teams and elite “experts” who fail to consider how their edicts affect individuals, families, businesses, schools, the economy and more. Just as scary is how the Blue Teams see no parallels between voter IDs and vaccination IDs.

Thankfully, I no longer live under the thumbs of these patrician busy bodies, having moved a couple of years ago to booming Florida, where freedom rings.

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