Americano: why should we hate 'vaxports'?

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🗓️ 9 April 2021

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Summary

Vaccine passports seem all but inevitable in the UK and parts of the US. While some are relatively relaxed about the prospects of a de facto bio-security ID card, others are not. Spectator US contributor Bridget Phetasy is one of them, and on this episode tells Freddy Gray why she hates the 'vaxport'.

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0:00.0	Hello, I'm Amber Athe, the Spectator's Washington Editor, and I'm here to encourage you to subscribe to the Spectator's American Edition.
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0:47.7	Hello and welcome to the Americano podcast, a series of discussions about American politics and now the Joe Biden presidency.
1:01.7	We will be looking at how a 78-year-old president will change America and will be asking if normalcy, which is what he promised to bring, has returned to American politics.
1:03.8	The answer, of course, is no.
1:18.3	I'm joined today by Bridget Fetty, who is a verified nobody, but also a much appreciated columnist at Spectator USA and host of the walkins welcome podcast.
1:20.7	And the dumpster fire.
1:22.5	Is that what your YouTube channel is called?
1:23.6	Um,
1:25.5	the YouTube channel is fetusy,
1:28.2	but the show that we have on it is dumpster fire.
1:29.1	Dumpster fire.
1:33.4	Well, it's great, and I highly recommend all listeners give it a go.
1:37.3	And we're going to be talking about vaccine passports in America.
1:43.1	Bridget, yesterday we published your excellent essay on this, which has the headline,
1:46.2	I hate the Vaxport and you should too.
1:54.6	It's a pretty strong blast of libertarian or just free and liberal thinking about vaccine passports.
1:58.0	And it's fair to say it got a lot of people angry on Twitter.
2:02.4	This subject seems to either way. First thing we should address,
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