At times, I really do wonder how often those that we elect to be our representatives or those that are hired as our employees in the State of NH actually pay attention to the NH Constitution. Oh, wait! I have the answer:
Related: A Poem About Vaccine Registries, Privacy, And New Hampshire
NH State Rep. Sandra Keans (R, now D): “I don’t try to justify anything by the Constitution, it’s not my job and I don’t want to do it”.
Actually, it IS part of your job. You swore an oath to defend and abide by it. But, of course, you suck at it.
Most of them do – they either don’t care or are antithetical towards the Constitution. For them, there is no limiting factor in a limited form of Government. Instead of looking at the Articles in the NH Constitution and then figuring out “can we or should we do this,” the attitude seem to be “pass it and either hope nobody notices or doesn’t have the means to bring us to court over it.”
[Art.] 2-b. [Right of Privacy.] An individual’s right to live free from governmental intrusion in private or personal information is natural, essential, and inherent.
December 5, 2018
“Live Free from government intrusion in private or personal information.” Note the date this was passed, just a little under two years ago.
Now we have the Chinese Flu, and the State thinks it has a Registry all ready to hoover up all that and much more of our private lives.
New state registry will track COVID-19 vaccines
State health officials say they expect a long-delayed immunization registry will be in place by the time the first COVID-19 vaccines are approved, produced and ready for distribution in New Hampshire. The new registry will help providers make sure their patients are getting the vaccinations they need to protect themselves, health experts say. That will be especially critical for tracking which COVID-19 vaccines people receive.
…All this is taking place in a climate of political partisanship and public skepticism. Even as President Donald Trump promised last week that a vaccine will be available “momentarily,” a recent survey found most Granite Staters would not take a COVID-19 vaccine if it were “available today.”
…Patients will have the right to “opt out” of the registry.
Where would the stupid people be without the kindly heavy hand of government directing us?
I duly note that the “crisis of the day” is the front “guy” for setting up another data catch that can be mined later. Do we know WHO will have access to it? Do we know WHAT will be done with that data? I dunno about you, but I’m now old enough to know.
Databases, even with the best of intentions, have “noise” that gets in there (at best) and used with ill-intentions (at times, at worst).
And the Slippery Slope exists (as in “Hey, look at this new shiny tool! What ELSE can we use it for?”)
I’m such a curmudgeon now, aren’t I? Thinking bad thoughts about Government employees. It’s not like it has never happened before in our lifetimes, eh (shades of “Joe the Plumber, Obama, and “spread the wealth” pop into my head…very quickly).
I do wonder about that right to “opt-out” due to the ministrations of Governor “Public Safety Trumps Everything.” Do you wonder about that?
Sidenote: his approval rate used to be around 70% a while ago – it’s now down to 53%. While that’s not bad compared to Feltes’ 35%, do you think the drop for Sununu is all hinged on his own words of Doom and people are just tired of it?
So you put that up against Article 2-b, and what do you think will happen?
The Registry was considered years ago, but it wasn’t until the State got the Feds’ money to get it launched that it became “important enough.” Now, how will that (and a lot of other things) be seen in the light of Article 2-b – especially in this time where Big Tech is using their databases for their own purposes and not for what we’ve been told? Private or Public, people are just the same with either the same good intentions – or bad ones.
I’d consider a suit.
