We still have to Fight the Mandatory Adult Vaccine Database

If you haven’t heard the news, we had a BIG WIN yesterday (5/12) when State Sen. Rachel May withdrew her awful bill S8352 from consideration. This is the bill that would allow any medical procedure to be done to any child of any age without either parental knowledge or consent. The identical bill in the Assembly, A6761, still exists, but this means the bill has no chance of passing this year. Curious that Sen. May withdrew S8352 just three days after we gathered in force in Albany to fight her bill.

We need to focus now on another very dangerous bill S1531 (Hoylman, D-Manhattan) that creates a mandatory adult vaccine database. S1531 changes the rules for the currently voluntary adult vaccine database so that your permission is no longer needed to record information about you. The Assembly already passed this bill (A7154) last spring, so we have to stop it in the State Senate.

The only reason for a database that records the vaccines people have had, and HAVE NOT received, is that at some point they intend to enforce compliance. Exactly like the State uses the childhood database to deny children access to school.

The adult database will provide the necessary information to enforce vaccine passports. It will be used to deny you the right to work, practice your profession, go to college, access healthcare, access public places, travel, and all the other insanely repressive measures they already used with COVID passports.

What else will New York do with your information? Who will the state allow access to the database? Who will they allow to buy your medical information? Why do these third parties want your information? What will these third parties do with your information? Will they re-sell it?

The question of who gets access to the data is so serious that the bill was already held up for two years because migrant activists were concerned that the database would be used by immigration enforcement agencies. The legislature took these concerns so seriously that they passed a bill that appears to prevent the State from sharing this data with federal immigration enforcement agencies.

TAKE ACTION

CLICK HERE to send a message to your State Senator expressing your opposition to S1531.

Call your New York State Senator and politely but firmly ask that he or she oppose S1531 and mandatory adult vaccine databases. We need to have 32 out of the 63 State Senators opposed to block it. Your State Senator’s contact information should appear below:

Minority Leader Robert Ortt II (R-NY-062)
(518) 455-2024 (Capitol)
(716) 434-0680 (District)

You can look up your State Senator here:

https://www.nysenate.gov/find-my-senator

Contact the leadership of the Senate and let them know you oppose S1531:

Andrea Stewart Cousins, Senate Majority Leader,

(518) 455-2715, (518) 455-2585

https://www.facebook.com/andrea.stewartcousins

Twitter: @AndreaSCousins

Gustavo Rivera, State Senate Health Committee Chair, co-sponsor of S1531,

(718) 933-2034, (518) 455-3395

https://www.facebook.com/Hon.Gustavo.Rivera

Twitter: @NYSenatorRivera

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https://www.votervoice.net/AUTISMACTION/Campaigns/115633/Respond

Talking Points

Here are some talking points you can use on your phone calls.

• What is the need? There are no required vaccines for general population adults,
• Who else will the State share or sell your information to? What will they do with your information?
• S1531 violates every principle of medical privacy,
• S1531 violates physicians’ duty of confidentiality,
• The database will be used to identify and punish people. That is exact purpose of a vaccine database. Today it may be COVID shots, it will be other injections in the future,
• This is another step to statewide vaccine passports,
• Opens the door to demanding all medical records, psychiatric, drugs, HIV and other STDs, contraceptive use, etc.,
• This is taxpayer subsidized marketing for drug companies,
• Immigrant rights advocates are concerned it will be used to track and locate undocumented people for deportation,
• This bill will disproportionately impact black and brown people who have the lowest rate of COVID vaccine uptake of any racial groups,

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