HIPPA protections...

NOT a good decision on your part. That shot could have prevented this adverse reaction and the lasting effects you are having. Don't come on to a public forum and complain about an adverse reaction when you refused treatment.

One can not travel internationally without a US passport. In fact, no one can travel internationally without a passport from their country to prove their citizenship. Why can't a vaccine passport be done as safely and honestly as a passport to prove citizenship? '

Here is a great example of allowing vaccinated people to have more freedoms than un-vaccinated people........Disney World, as someone mentioned upthread, can check for proof of vaccination then issue an arm band to the vaccinated person. That armband is the "passport" for that person to traverse everywhere on the Disney grounds, indoors and outdoors, WITHOUT a mask. Every person without that armband must wear a mask while anywhere on the Disney World grounds. THAT is what I wish for. DeSantis has made that impossible at this point. As long as Disney requires masks, I will not be going to Disney World.

And there we have it, an "example" to lose freedoms..............what other examples would you like to give? Where would those "examples" end?

How about this explanation......
If DeSantis would just stay out of it, the establishments of any kind in the state of Florida can do as they wish when it comes to requiring a vaccine passport or not requiring a vaccine passport to render services.

I wish DeSantis would just stay out of it!

So now you want the government to "stay out of it" when it fits your wants and needs. You can't make this crap up!

I get your point but those diseases you mentioned or any other communicable disease for that matter, is not currently causing a global pandemic. There is the difference.

THIS is why I want to be assured that the person sitting next to me on an airplane on a domestic or international flight has been vaccinated.

That is just the beginning>>>>>>>>>>>

Aren't the few that are "not really protected" may get Covid but will not have severe symptoms requiring hospitalization and will not die. That is my understanding. So, to me, everyone who is vaccinated is offered protection.

HIPAA laws are to protect an individual's privacy but an individual may divulge their medical history if they wish to do so.

So......if a vaccinated person would like to produce a vaccine passport to board a cruise ship, let's say, they are within their rights to do so. HIPAA has nothing to do with that.

You are wrong about HIPAA [not HIPPA]
There is absolutely no violation of HIPAA if you disclose your own health information which is what would happen in the situation described.

EDIT Oh I see as I was typing the correct information was being posted.

They are endless, actually. I'm not saying these limitations will last forever. I'm sure they won't for your sake.

I have been very verbal about not agreeing with our governor. I think the businesses should have the say as to how they wish to handle this pandemic going forward. There should be no government intervention. Isn't that conservative way of thinking?

I usually find that golfing eagles is medically accurate even if we differ on some politics. But this post is simply wrong in the one fact, as opposed to opinion, it contained:

Polio is not making a comeback. There are two broad categories of people getting polio. One is the wild virus which is the traditional case of polio that the Salk and Sabin vaccines were designed to eliminate. There are three strains of wild polio conveniently called type 1, 2, or 3. All 3 strains are contained in both vaccines. In the oral vaccine the virus is alive but very weakened so that it is extremely rare but not impossible that someone who gets the vaccine can get real active polio from the vaccine. In the polio shot the virus is dead and cannot cause disease.

If someone gets polio from the vaccine it is called vaccine derived polio VDP. If it is wild polio then WPV.

Here are the data for the week ending March 31, 2021:

Summary of new WPV and cVDPV viruses this week (AFP cases and ES positives): AFP mean acute flaccid paralysis, or clinical polio, ES means environmental sample, they tested the water and found vaccine polio in the water

Afghanistan: five cVDPV2 cases and two cVDPV2 positive environmental samples
Pakistan: two WPV1 and one cVDPV2 positive environmental samples
Côte d’Ivoire: 34 cVDPV2 positive environmental samples
Guinea: one cVDPV2 positive environmental sample
Liberia: three cVDPV2 positive environmental samples
*****: one cVDPV2 positive environmental sample Really censor? This is a country in Africa N i g e r
Senegal: two cVDPV2 cases and one positive environmental sample
South Sudan: three cVDPV2 positive environmental samples

So the only cases of wild polio in the entire world last week were two in Pakistan where there is now a huge issue getting the fundamental Islamic areas to accept vaccines as they believe vaccines are a Western biological warfare agent. Funny about people believing such wrong things about vaccines isn't it.

In Afghanistan there were 5 people diagnosed with polio they caught from being vaccinated.

The total wild polio cases for 2020 were:
Afghanistan 56
Pakistan 84

No other country in the world has had a single case of wild polio in either 2019, 2020 or 2021. For comparison in 1988 there were an estimated 350,000 cases of wild polio in the world. No, polio is not making a comeback.

You believe our country fought for the freedom to not get a vaccine? Do our soldiers get a choice not to get required vaccines? Did our Revolutionary War leader and first President, George Washington, force his soldiers to get smallpox prevention? Yes he did. Did he establish a regulation that no person from Boston where there was a smallpox epidemic be allowed to travel to where his troops were encamped, yes he did. So please, General Washington set up a rule where people at risk of having a contagious disease could not freely travel. Sound familiar? Just a little bit?

Don't tell me America was founded so that people can refuse vaccines and still do whatever they please because of "freedumb" Read history and learn.