Boston Mayor Forcefully Rejects Vaccine Passports Similar to NYC, Compares Them to Slavery

Acting Mayor Kim Janey of Boston, Mass. is coming out forcefully against vaccine passports in her city after New York City announced their implementation of such a system.

Janey pointed to the “long history” of people “needing to show their papers” in the U.S. and how such practices have typically been exclusionary and discriminatory against people of color.

“During slavery, post-slavery, as recent as, you know, what the immigrant population has to go through here, we’ve heard Trump with the birth certificate nonsense,” Janey said to WCVB.

“Here, we want to make sure that we are not doing anything that would further create a barrier for residents of Boston or disproportionally impact BIPOC communities,” she added.

Janey maintains that she is not anti-vaccine. She just wants to partner with community groups to make it available to Boston residents on a voluntary basis.

“As it relates to people who want to encourage their workforce to get vaccinated, we certainly support that,” she said.

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