Letter to the editor: Dangers of vaccination passports

Medical freedom and informed consent have always been fundamental principles in the American health care system. Requiring “vaccination passports” (documented evidence of vaccination) not only intrudes on the privacy of health information and frustrates the principles of medical freedom and informed consent, but its most nefarious infraction is that it lays groundwork for the stratification of a second-tier citizen.

Citizens who, for any host of reasons, choose not to carry or obtain a “passport” risk being obstructed from full participation in society. Denial of service, hindrance from commercial activity and participation in public life would be penalties for not carrying a universally required “passport.”

This is an awesome power that should be properly contemplated and understood.

Stacey West

Sewickley