Tue Oct 19, 2021 – 3:43 pm EDT
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VANCOUVER, British Columbia (LifeSiteNews) – Dr. Patty Daly, chief medical officer of health for Vancouver Coastal Health, acknowledged in a recorded virtual meeting that vaccine passports in her region are not about health but about creating an “incentive to get higher vaccinate rates.”
A video posted by Action4Canada shows a recorded clip taken from a “Build Back Better and COVID-19” forum. The site page for the event was taken down after the public health gaffe was released.
In the meeting, Daly was asked by a participant: “We aren’t allowing unvaccinated people into restaurants, but they are still allowed to visit patients in acute care (ICU, etc). Is this true? If so, what are the risks?”
The Vancouver doctor responded by saying the point of vaccine passports was to incentivize people to get vaccinated, not to stop the spread of COVID.
“Maybe I can answer this question briefly,” she said. “The vaccine passport requires people be vaccinated to do certain discretionary activities such as go to restaurants, movies, gyms not because these places are high risk. We’re not actually seeing COVID transmission in these settings.”
After she acknowledged that the vaccine passport is required for settings where there is no statistically relevant risk of transmitting the virus,
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