Tue Feb 8, 2022 – 2:55 pm EST
AMSTERDAM (LifeSiteNews) — A petition launched against the vaccine passport in the Netherlands has received over 500,000 signatures in just three days and could reach the million mark this week.
The petition was launched Friday by a coalition of Dutch politicians, scientists, and entrepreneurs who oppose the COVID vaccine passport. Appealing to Dutch Prime Minister Mark Rutte and his cabinet, the authors called for the immediate abolition of the measure and the reopening of society in a manifesto entitled “undivided and open.”
“We call on the Cabinet and parliament to abolish coronavirus passes effective immediately,” the authors said in the manifesto. “The harm it causes is disproportionate to any public health benefits it may have.”
At 1 p.m. on Saturday, the petition had already received over 160,000 signatures according to Dutch television channel NOS. On Sunday evening at around 9:30 p.m., it reached the half a million mark, and to date it has received over 723,000 signatures.
Traffic on the website petitie.nl, which is hosting the petition, was so heavy this weekend that the webpage frequently crashed.
“The speed with which the petition has grown is a record,” said
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