Australian airline Qantas announced that it will require that passengers produce proof of having received a COVID-19 vaccination as soon as an inoculation becomes widely available. Qantas CEO Alan Joyce made the announcement on Monday in an interview with the Australian news program A Current Affair.
Initially, the airline will require international passengers to have the vaccination, although that could quickly become a necessity for domestic travel as well.
“We are looking at changing our terms and conditions to say for international travelers, that we will ask people to have a vaccination before they can get on the aircraft,” Joyce said. “Whether you need that domestically, we’ll have to see what happens with COVID-19 in the market, but certainly for international visitors coming out and people leaving the country, we think that’s a necessity.”
Currently, pharmaceutical manufacturer Pfizer, Inc. is close to having a vaccine ready for distribution that it claims is 95-percent effective. They are seeking emergency use authorization to begin distribution in the United States. In addition, drug makers AstraZeneca and Moderna are also said to be close to having their own vaccines ready.
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While Qantas is the first major airline to publicly say that they will require a vaccination in order to fly, it’s unlikely they’ll be the only one.
“I’m talking to my colleagues in other airlines around the globe and I think it’s going to be a common theme across the board,” Joyce said. “There’s a lot of logistics, a lot of technology that’ll be needed to put in place to make this happen, but the airlines and the governments are working on this as we speak.”
Currently, Qantas is in the process of updating their terms and conditions to reflect the upcoming change, but Joyce suspects that soon, such new policies could be enforced by giving fliers a new digital “vaccination passport,” which will show exactly which vaccinations the traveler has received.
“What we’re looking at is how you can have a vaccination passport, an electronic version of it, that certifies what the vaccine is, is it acceptable to the country you’re traveling to,” Joyce said.
While Qantas may have been the first to announce such a measure, the entire worldwide airline industry has been investigating the issue of vaccine restrictions on travel. The International Air Transport Association (IATA) has been working on its own travel pass, such as the one Joyce described. They hope to launch the product early next year.
“The global information infrastructure needed to securely manage, share and verify test data matched with traveler identities in compliance with border control requirements. That’s the job of the IATA travel pass,” said Alexandre de Juniac of IATA. “We are bringing this to the market in the coming months to also meet the needs of the various travel bubbles and public health corridors that are starting operation.”
Coincidentally — or maybe not — the new travel pass would seem to line up with Chinese President Xi Jinping’s call for a global COVID-19 tracking system. Xi touted such a global tracking system at a virtual meeting of G20 leaders on Saturday.
“China has proposed a global mechanism on the mutual recognition of heath certificates based on nucleic acid test results in the form of internationally accepted QR codes. We hope more countries will join this mechanism,” Xi said.
All of this — travel restrictions, mandated vaccines, and passports containing personal health information — tracks closely with the so-called Great Reset that globalists are currently pushing. They are using a virus with a 99-percent survival rate as a means to gather all of our private healthcare information on the basis of it being a “public health necessity.”
Today, it’s about international travel. But how soon will it be until all other aspects of our life are affected by this collective corporate-government push for an all encompassing control?
