Welcome to the conversations that matter podcast. My name is John Harris. We're going to

take a little trip today to the country of Lithuania. I want to just read for you an

article that was sent to me and this is this is story time I guess this is like a 16 minute read it says on the top and maybe I'll make some comments as we go but this could be the future for us and I think it's it's

good to know what's happening in other places around the world right now so the

COVID pass in Lithuania and

throughout Europe. How recent vaccine mandate laws have upended my family's life.

So like I said, 16 minute read came out September 18th and I'm going to read it to you.

I want to share the situation which my family and

I are now facing because of COVID-pass restrictions. We live in the small

European country of Lithuania. In the last few months strict COVID pass restrictions have been introduced which represent a fundamental

transformation in society.

There's a picture there for those listening of someone I guess scanning or showing their COVID pass to get in somewhere.

In this article I'll describe the details of how the COVID pass works in my country and how it affects my family.

As a star were banned from shopping centers, non-essential stores and restaurants and my wife and I were both

suspended from our jobs without pay. But as I'll explain, it's not just Lithuania.

COVID pass restrictions are being imposed throughout Europe.

By my account, at least 14 European countries now have different types of domestic restrictions

based on the COVID-pass, and every country has

travel restrictions within Europe based on the COVID-pass.

There hasn't been much reporting in English language media about what has happened, so I thought a detailed firsthand account would be useful.

My family, my country, and beautiful castle by the way here in this picture.

This is interesting because there was a lot of

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