Is A Social Credit System Coming?

Vaccines Mandates Today, China's Social Credit System Tomorrow?

Joseph Hippolito

If California's Democrats get their way, their state will become the first to write vaccine mandates into law. If California's Democrats succeed, they will take the nation down a dangerous path, one that could lead to a social credit system.

Democrats in the Assembly, the state legislature's lower house, want to rewrite drafts of current bills and transform them into vaccine mandates. The process earned a colloquial nickname: gut and amend.

"Gut-and-amend bills can be particularly insidious," wrote Katy Grimes in the California Globe, a political website.

This secretive process often leaves lawmakers, as well as the public, little or no time to review entirely new legislation dropped into an old bill. And usually, the subject of the legislation has nothing to do with the bill’s previous legislative issue.Gut-and-amend typically happens with budget issues and heavy special interest legislation. Lawmakers have complained loudly for years that the gut-and-amend process has been grossly abused by whichever party is in power.

The Democrats first tried this tactic with AB 455, a transportation bill. The Los Angeles Times obtained a draft version stipulating that Californians must present vaccination proof to enter a restaurant, theater, gym, hotel or sports arena. The revised bill also demanded that employees, job applicants and independent contractors must provide similar proof or take weekly COVID-19 tests.

AB 1102, originally dealing with telephone medical services, includes a provision that protects businesses from lawsuits. The bill now would require businesses to demand proof of vaccination not only for customers but also for employees, apprentices and interns. In lieu of such proof, customers, employees and interns must submit to COVID-19 testing.

Interestingly, the bill specifies the "Pfizer-BioNTech, Moderna, and Janssen vaccines" as most effective. Would it be fair to assume that lobbyists for those firms made promises or payments to the Assembly's members for that kind of testimonial?

"It’s pathetic," a source told the Globe. "The progressive legislators play ‘Vax for the win’ while the people of California have to walk down-urine soaked streets and needle strewn parks. Pathetic." 

Perhaps more interestingly, another Democratic Assemblyman, Marc Levine from liberal Marin County, introduced a more arbitrary resolution. Under Levine’s measure, Assembly members could neither participate in legislative sessions nor receive salaries without vaccination proof.

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