link to original reddit post by /u/LibertarianBro101
“The Biden administration and private companies are working to develop a standard way of handling credentials — often referred to as “vaccine passports” — that would allow Americans to prove they have been vaccinated against the novel coronavirus as businesses try to reopen.”
“On Monday, Andy Slavitt, senior adviser for the White House COVID-19 Task Force, said that the U.S. does not plan to create such a passport. Instead, Slavitt said that states can develop their own and the federal government is helping to develop standards for equity and privacy that these programs need to uphold. New York has begun developing its own digital certification, known as the Excelsior Pass, which could allow residents into public establishments.”
This is tantamount to the TSA. This isn’t just private companies requesting health records— which many Libertarians would approve of their right to do as private companies— this is the federal and local government (the CDC especially) collaborating with private businesses on guidelines and development of these “vaccine passports”.
This isn’t some little dinky coffee shop creating their own standards under normal conditions, these are giant corporations subsidized heavily by the government, already working in collaboration with the government (TSA), sharing your health records to these businesses.
The point here is that the Airline industry, by and large, is regulated heavily by the governments. I will agree with the idea that a private airline should be able to discriminate against its customers based off of vaccination status under the circumstance that the TSA is abolished, and I’ll let the subsidies slide. Until then, they are an extension in-effect of the government and the imposition of vaccine passports is in-effect governmentally mandated.