Mayor Lori Lightfoot on Monday said the city is considering ways to incentivize residents to get coronavirus vaccines, including potential passes that could lead to preferred seating and admission to events for those who have gotten shots.
The mayor was asked at an unrelated news conference about the city’s plans for creating COVID-19 vaccination passports, a move Chicago public health Commissioner Dr. Allison Arwady said is under consideration to begin next month.
Lightfoot said the plan is still “a work in progress” but that city officials are looking for ways to give vaccine stragglers incentive to get inoculated from the disease that could include preferred seating and admission to certain events.
“When you get vaccinated, it’s going to be an easier to return to a different life,” Lightfoot said. “I won’t say our normal old life, because I don’t think that’s ever coming back.”
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The mayor also encouraged residents between the ages 18-44 to get vaccinated, and noted the Black community is also lagging. “The opportunities for opening up the city increase with the number of people who get vaccinated,” she said.
Arwady, Chicago’s top public health official, on Tuesday said she expects the city to debut a form of a vaccination passport requirement next month for access to events geared toward young adults.
Arwady gave few details about the initiative, but said it will be dubbed “Vax Pass” and roll out in May as a means to encourage vaccination particularly in younger people in exchange for attendance at concerts or other events as the second pandemic summer begins.
“You get a vaccine, you’ll be able to get into a concert or get into an event,” Arwady said. “(We’re) really thinking, particularly for younger people, how can we make vaccine something that people are excited about getting?”
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Show your papers at the checkpoint. What year is it.
Citizens need to have political applicants show stupidity/sanity papers before they can run
YET illegal invaders, don’t need papers of any sort, cause asking for it is racist..
A vaccination passport for preferred seating etc.??????? Why doesn’t Lori Lightfoot rename in the Gestapo passport. Where are your papers, we are the Gestapo???? Why doesn’t Lightfoot just come out and say, that she (Lightfoot) is a communist.
I wonder, will they eventually become like Canada has done.. WHERE YOU need permission from the state, to LEAVE YOUR HOME To do anything…
“Mommy may i?”
With no documentation , Just think of all the millions of citizens of Chicago who will not be able to get on a plane, go to a restaurant, get a checking account, apply for welfare, buy a bottle of Ripple, a carton of Kools, purchase a Cadillac “Excalade”, or finance a mortgage . . .but SHALL be guaranteed the right to vote. ID . . ? . . .Registration . . ? . . ..Badges .. ?
Except they’re not in Chicago anymore. They’ve moved to Texas or Florida.
That genius mutt of a mayor should be worried about the other kind of “shots”, but this nifty little plan will divert attention, and that’s what really counts.
WHEN has she ever ‘cared’ about THOSE shots..?
Is there a more despicable animal on the planet than this creature from the black lagoon?
Can’t get voter Id but will be able to get a Vax pass?!
That’s leftist illogic for ya.