Meeting Public Comments

Names and comments are public records. Remaining information is considered a confidential record.

Comments Submitted:

04-24-2021

Sandy Wilson [Citizen Engagement 411]

Vaccine passports are intended to limit or deny citizens the freedom to participate in commerce around the state and the country in order to coerce citizens to participate in medical care they would otherwise refuse.Liberty Counsel has opined that forced vaccination is a violation of fundamental individual, economic, and religious liberties, the rights of personal autonomy and bodily integrity, the right to a religious accommodation, right to reject the vaccines, including and especially COVID injections. All existing COVID shots are only permitted under a federal Emergency Use Authorization (EUA), which law states that people must be provided informed consent and such drugs cannot be forced or coerced. Liberty Counsel also noted that forced vaccination of employees, as a condition of employment, violates the First Amendment and federal law.Vice President of Legal Affairs and Chief Litigation Counsel Horatio Mihet said, Forced vaccination against the rights of conscience is unconscionable. Americans should not be forced to choose between their livelihood and a COVID injection. The COVID experimental injection has only been approved by the FDA under an Emergency Use Authorization and it cannot be mandated. Such a Hobsons choice is not only unconstitutional and unlawful, it is also unAmerican.Liberty Counsel Founder and Chairman Mat Staver said, Forcing any person to receive one of these COVID injections authorized for emergency use by the FDA is a violation of federal law. The COVID injections are still in the investigation and experimental phase. No employer or government may force or coerce anyone to take these injections. Federal law requires full informed consent.. I urge you to heed the advice of Liberty Counsel to not only reject vaccine passports but support HF889 to ban them.

04-24-2021

Samantha Karaidos []

Please support this bill! Nothing is one size fits all, and vaccines are no different. You need to protect ALL your constituents, and a passport is far from that. Its a huge infringement on our liberties in more than just medical privacy. Please listen, and pass this bill

04-24-2021

Daniel LaCorte []

The tyranny must end. We need to become responsible as citizens and trust ourselves to make intelligent health care decisions. The Government has no rights to force its citizens through coercive or any other means to take any procedure or treatment. This has been clearly laid out through various Heath care protection acts. This experimental emergency use only gene therapy must never become mandatory!!! Enough is enough. 98 % survivable for most people is not an emergency. We must extend this freedom from forced vaccines to private as well as public institutions and entities. Additionally, experimental use of MASKS falls squarely into this area as well. Private entities cannot and must not continue discriminate for Masks as well. The most recent study from Stanford University upholds the same data published by the CDC themselves in several places that masks are ineffective. We must stop this madness.

04-24-2021

Gwen Norland []

As a citizen who suffers from claustrophobia and anxiety I can tell you and speak for anyone that suffers with this, it is a feeling of being handcuffed. You feel like you cant breath. I know there are many with much bigger conditions, I can only speak for this. Please consider all of us that are all for following the law, but this is control over our freedom. Please support this bill!

04-24-2021

Matt Shaw []

AT ANY GOVERNMENT FACILITY OR ENTITY, OR SCHOOL, OR OPENTOTHEPIBLIC BUSINESS:NO mandatory or coerced vaccines.NO vaccine passport or similar proof of vaccination or proof therapeutic, or roof of any other pharmaceutical or nonpharmaceutical treatment.NO

04-24-2021

Natausha Jean []

Please support this bill. We need to proactively protect our freedoms! Please add a provision so IRIS cannot be utilized to confirm vaccination status. Our health privacy is of utmost importance. Government's primary responsibility is to protect our Godgiven rights. This bill is a step in the right direction. Thank you for your service!

04-24-2021

Jodee Murcia []

Medical Tyranny must end now. Americans and Iowans have the right to mitigate their own risk, live, free, breath fresh air and choose what gets injected into their bodies or not. The fear, divide and discrimination on this issue must end now. Absolutely ban all vaccine passports. The Health Departments, Governments entities and even businesses must stop being the health police. I am a educated and informed citizen of Iowa. I choose freedom to the individual not government tyranny. No business or organization should hold this authority over peoples health choices.

04-24-2021

Debbie Smith []

No to vaccine passports!! We have the right to our own healthcare decisions and we should not be punished, marked, denied services or travel for our choices. This vaccine passport is no different than that of Nazi Germany, marking those whom they wished to victimize! We have the right to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness. You must uphold these rights for all Americans!

04-24-2021

James Murcia [Freedom ]

Support this bill. NO Government has the right to limit personal freedom of health choice! Medical tyranny is over reach including dictating health choices. Bodily autonomy is a personal choice, not a government choice. Open to public Businesses and schools are not or should not be in any position to police personal health choices. Law enforcement and employers do not enforce personal health choices either!

04-24-2021

Elaine Michaels []

Please pass this bill. I am NOT in favor of a vaccine passport as this infringes on my Godgiven rights as a citizen. Losing this freedom would be another step to losing all of our freedoms. No government has the right to make medical decisions for me or my family and as an American, I want to keep that freedom!

04-24-2021

Holly White []

Requiring citizens to prove their vaccination for covid is a violation of our privacy, rights and pressures people into taking a drug that by all definitions is experimental. Furthermore allowing Covid passports would be a slippery slope to single out people who make the choice for various reasons, including religious, to not be vaccinated. This opens up the flood gates for so many violations to our personal privacy and choices for their bodies.

04-24-2021

Robin Kennicker []

Please pass this bill! This would be the first step to upholding our freedom of choice. As a cancer patient, I would like this to go even further to "prohibiting businesses from discriminating against those who cannot or choose not to get a vaccine. Frankly, I am worried because I see a "mask mandate" that is STILL being enforced in Dubuque County and because of this MOST retailers DO NOT care if I or anyone else has a medical condition they still require you to wear a mask. I am concerned that this vaccine will go the same way. Local cities and towns can make "ordinances" themselves as Dubuque, Iowa does now (not caring what the Governor has said because they say they have "home rule.") We need this law to protect not only our choice but our needs. Thank you!

04-24-2021

Mayara Carneiro []

SUPPORT with amendments. We urge you to pass this bill with protective amendments to safeguard the privacy of patients in medical facilities from being refused care or being kicked out of practice due to vaccine status. We want to see wording addressing the IRIS system, which is being utilized to confirm vaccination status, violating the individual's right to privacy and potentially leading to discrimination. IRIS Is a public website were you can see someones vaccine and vision data with full name, birthday, and social security number. This personal identification data is readily available to employers, schools, insurance companies, banks, etc. Also, this bill needs to cover employees from having their individual right of bodily autonomy, medical privacy, and religious freedom because as it stands, an employer can still attempt to require immunization with untested, unproven and experimental gene therapy.

04-24-2021

Sheila Wemark []

To even CONSIDER a vaccine passport for something that only has Emergency Use Authorization is unconscionable. To even CONSIDER a vaccine passport for something with no longterm (LT) studies, no LT studies on children, no LT studies on pregnant women, no LT studies on teenagers, no LT studies on persons with chronic health conditions, which is the majority of our population, no LT studies on the elderly, whom you are so desperately trying to protect, is unconscionable. To deny rights based on a vaccine passport encourages even the hesitant to get this understudied shot. Their blood is on your hands if the fear of not being able to get back to life makes them take this possibly fatal shot. No vaccine passports in Iowa please.

04-24-2021

Jenny Dennis []

Please pass this bill. No vaccine that is is not even FDA approved yet except for emergency use should be mandatory. It is a medical decision and people should have a choice just like the flu shot. With risks and unknowns this should pass under constitutional rights.

04-24-2021

Emily Peterson []

Please support this bill. As we as Americans see our freedoms slipping away this is a bill that is key to keeping many of those freedoms we see are threatened now. Do the right thing and support this bill.

04-24-2021

Mike Sternat []

This vaccine is medical tyranny !! My bodymy choice !! Gates and Fauci need to arrested for crimes against humanity for making and releasing this virus ! This has a 99.98% survival rate, and theres no need for mandatory vaccinations !! We are more apt to be killed in an auto accident !! This is EXPERIMENTAL TECHNOLOGY !!! It has killed ALL animals it was tested on in the past !! It should NOT be given to humans !!! The 2nd shot KILLED my sister in laws healthy 67yr old aunt within 24 hours !!! We all need to say no to this !!!

04-24-2021

Leslie Beck []

Please SUPPORT HF889. Health care decisions should not be a basis for access. And Americans should not be discriminated against on the basis of those decisions. HF889 is a good first step and I look forward to additional protections in the future to protect our freedoms. We also need protection against being denied medical care on the basis of vaccine status. In addition, employees need protection against employer vaccine mandates. And finally, Iowans need protection against IRIS being used to access private vaccine status.

04-24-2021

Anna Wolvers []

Let me remind you of our State's motto:Our liberties we prize...We need you to support this bill with a few amendments. No medical care should be denied either because some of us have had adverse reactions to other vaccines! Or we have Celiac and can't have the MSG added which attacks our bodies. Or our religion does not support aborted fetuses being put in us. Masks need to go away as well. No tracking, vaxxing, or masking needs to be allowed!! We've never done this with any of the other 100s of vaccines, why start now?? I'm sick of not being able to work & help others, or support myself vecause I CAN'T wear a mask or be vaccinated.

04-24-2021

Ryan Jensen []

Any form of governmental overreach that prohibits the free exercise of our inalienable Godgiven rights is tyranny. I agree that mandates of many forms are such examples of said tyranny, and was expected by our founding fathers. We must return back to a free nation ruled by the people, not unelected federal bureaucrats. A vaccine or otherwise 'passport/ID' is unconstitutional. We need to prevent all forms of overreach, including healthcare facilities, where our loved ones wish to spend with us.

04-25-2021

Miranda B []

As an Iowan, the Vaccine Passport Bill (HF 889) is so very important to me. I have great concern over businesses, places of employment, and other services in the community asking for my private health information in order to participate in my community. I passionately urge you to PASS this bill in order to maintain our freedoms, and further consider amending it to protect Iowans as it does not seem to apply to Healthcare facilities or their employees, and the use of the IRIS system as potential to violate an individual's right to privacy and leading to discrimination.Having a bill like this will further help alleviate the worry over having our inalienable rights violated. Our right to medical privacy and bodily autonomy is pivotal in maintaining our freedom.

04-25-2021

Sally Gaer []

This bill is so very important. Please give your full support. As a mother to a vaccine injured daughter, we have the right to choose what is put into our bodies now that we know first hand the damage done, which is NOT reversible.

04-25-2021

Brenda Meyer []

Please support this bill. I continue to want to make decisions for my own health and not be mandated to comply due to government regulation. I value travel immensely, and have done a lot of it in the last year with no adverse effects.

04-25-2021

Maria Staudt []

I currently hold a medical exemption card for the vaccines on the current US vaccination schedule due to an adverae reaction to my 6 month DTaP vaccine. Requiring proof of vaccination at businesses, venues, etc will limit my ability to participate in commerce. It will also mark me as "other" and allow me to be treated differently than my vaccinated family and friends. Please say NO to essentially mandating use of an experimental pharmaceutical.

04-25-2021

Maria Staudt []

I currently hold a medical exemption card for the vaccines on the current US vaccination schedule due to an adverse reaction to my 6 month DTaP vaccine. Requiring proof of vaccination at businesses, venues, etc will limit my ability to participate in commerce. It will also mark me as "other" and allow me to be treated differently than my vaccinated family and friends. Please say NO to essentially mandating use of an experimental pharmaceutical.

04-25-2021

Heather Stancil [County Supervisor ]

I support this bill. No entity has the right to demand medical information or proof of compliance with certain medical treatment as condition of any employment (including healthcare), engagement in commerce, receipt of education, or to receive medical care. However, this bill needs to be improved. Currently healthcare facilities are exempt, which could lead to denial of medical treatment ( I have already been denied medical care due to my inability to wear a mask) , or denial of employment. Also, it does not address the ability of IRIS (vaccine registry) to be used as a stand in for a vaccine passport. Anyone who has your name, birthdate and SSN can currently access ones vaccine status, which in itself is unacceptable.Please pass this bill, with amendments to address the gaps.

04-25-2021

Sally Crowley []

Please support this Bill. This is a private medical decision about an unapproved treatment. Even if it becomes approved, medical information is private and has never been required to move freely within our country.

04-25-2021

Anemarie Ganea []

This bill HF 889 represents our freedom. Without our freedom we don't have USA, we don't have Iowa, Nebraska, Texas, Florida, etc. We will not be any better than China, Venezuela, Cuba or Germany in world war II where people are controlled by a government who DICTATES in all aspects of their lives.Pass this bill for our forefathers who fought for their and our freedom and for us who are now fighting for our children's!A health passport would do no nothing than create a second class citizens(healthy) group who would not be able to benefit from all that life has to offer.Let's keep our Iowa logo intact !Our liberties we prize our rights we will maintain !

04-25-2021

Kristine Bartely []

Someone posted this earlier. It reflects my thoughts so I am echoing it here:Medical Tyranny must end now. Americans and Iowans have the right to mitigate their own risk, live, free, breath fresh air and choose what gets injected into their bodies or not. The fear, divide and discrimination on this issue must end now. Absolutely ban all vaccine passports. The Health Departments, Governments entities and even businesses must stop being the health police. I am a educated and informed citizen of Iowa. I choose freedom to the individual not government tyranny. No business or organization should hold this authority over peoples health choices.

04-25-2021

Genevieve Manatt []

Please support this bill. We are losing our freedom, and you have a responsibility to the American people to stand up, instead of cowering against what they are trying to do. You are the backbone that speaks for " WE THE PEOPLE"! Please sign and pass this bill for us. Our freedom is so important and we need your help in signing this and passing this bill.

04-25-2021

Gail DeJong []

Please support this bill. It is so wrong to let our freedoms be threatened and ultimately destroyed by forcing these kinds of measures (vaccination passports) on those of us who do not want our privacy violated.

04-25-2021

Amanda Pals []

Please support this bill!! Americans should have the freedom to decide what goes into their bodies. If the vaccine passports become a thing, it is a slippery slope indeed and also infringes on our religious freedoms. Thank you for your support!!!!

04-25-2021

Diane Holst []

Support this bill.The current COVID19 therapies are not vaccines based on the definition of vaccine in Iowa code. They do not provide immunity. Any government, business, nonprofit, etc., looking to require these nonlicensed treatments to participate in life may find themselves exposed to liabilities."Immunization"shall have the same meaning as, and shall be interchangeable with, the term vaccine."Vaccine"means a specially prepared antigen administered to a person for the purpose of providing immunity.But this is not the heart of the issue. Our medical information must remain private, and the idea that any entity would be allowed to use this protected information to discriminate is unthinkable. And for those wishing to give up their liberties in this era of our personal information being stollen on a regular basis, I can tell you from my own experience with breaches at the Office of Personal Management, a contractor of the Department of Homeland Security, and my healthcare provider, I would have no confidence in personal medical data being in the hands of outside companies where damages are settled with an apology letter and an offer for a free year of credit monitoring.

04-25-2021

Sue West []

Please support this bill. We need to proactively protect our freedoms! Please add a provision so IRIS cannot be utilized to confirm vaccination status. Our health privacy is of utmost importance. Government's primary responsibility is to protect our God given rights. This bill is a step in the right direction. Thank you for your service!

04-25-2021

Jasanna Czellar []

Please support this bill that protects Iowans like myself and my family from having businesses require personal medical information that is private and part of our rights. Each person deserves to choose whether or not to have health procedures and should not be coerced through business practice to have a medical procedure forced upon themselves or their family.

04-25-2021

Jena Newell [citizen]

We are adamantly opposed to the use of vaccines that are not FDA approved, as well as vaccine passports for any reason. We are in complete support of the passage of bill HF889 which protects our right to make our own medical decisions and keep those decisions private. Our body, our choice!

04-25-2021

Dennis Pallwitz II []

There must be an undeniable message sent to all employers and government officials that the infringement of the rights of the people of Iowa will NOT be tolerated. The outright ban on any form of vaccination passport must be done. There must be language in the bill that bans these passports for severe punishment for any who would dare do this.

04-25-2021

Sheila Streicher []

Please pass this bill. These types of passports would be a huge infringement on our freedoms. Putting people in a situation where they'd feel essentially forced to get a vax regardless of their medical situation and individual risks would be unwise. Thank you.

04-25-2021

Jeffrey Fahrmann []

I would like to express my strong support of the Vaccine Passport Bill that will be considered this next week. Iowans should NEVER be forced to show proof of vaccination status. That is a private medical decision that should never need to be disclosed against someones will. In fact, the Governor and public health authorities need to be reigned in with their vaccine coercion campaigns that are attempting to pressure Iowans into the vaccine. That should be a personal decision that no government official should be recommending one way or the other! Its great to have a vaccine available, but since when should government be so highly involved in trying to get shots in arms? Individuals should have the freedom to weigh the risks of the virus versus the vaccine and make a personal decision without government trying to guilt them into getting the vaccine! The Republican majority needs to pass this vaccine passport bill. In fact, they should also follow other Red majority states and amend it to further to address the following which I understand are not addressed in the current bill:1) Does not apply to healthcare facilities, 2) Does not address IRIS being utilized to confirm vaccination status, which violates an individuals right to privacy and possibly allowing for discrimination, 3) Does not apply to employees at these entities, also violating their right to medical privacy and their ability to make their own healthcare decisions.

04-25-2021

Jodi Nelson []

Please pass Vaccine Passport Bill (HF 889) and add further protections to ensure healthcare facilities cannot deny or provide a different standard of care to people based on vaccination status or for any employer to discriminate against or pressure employees based on vaccination status. Please also address the issue of IRIS being utilized to confirm vaccination status, which violates the individual's right to privacy and potentially leads to discrimination. Thank you.

04-25-2021

Jessica Pennings []

Vaccine passports are a violation of our constitutionally protected rights over our own bodies. There is no room in a free society for these passports. They are a violation of privacy, they are discriminatory as there is no one size fits all medicine, and manufacturers, businesses, and the government are free from any liability if the product harms me in any way. Please support this bill and say no to enslaving Iowan's in order to participate in society.

04-25-2021

Hannah Grandstaff []

Please support this bill! Medical freedom, informed consent, and bodily autonomy are basic human rights!! Bioindividuality of persons gives us an obligation to respect the rights we have pertaining to what goes inside our bodies. Thank you for fighting for our freedoms in Iowa!

04-25-2021

Lindsay Maher []

AMEND and PASS this legislation. There should be NO exceptions for this bill, so line 3031, MUST be REMOVED! Why does a business, school, or healthcare facility have the right to infringe on ANY individuals constitutionally protected rights to privacy, bodily autonomy, and religious beliefs? What data or science has anyone in public health or in the healthcare field showed us that necessitates having this exception? Additionally we should expand this to include protecting Iowas workforce. In reality we shouldnt need to have these policies as we have a constitution that was very clear, but we have had rights infringed at record levels all in the name of the recent chaos of the pandemic. Take a stand for liberty. Take a stand for the people who elected you into a majority in both chambers that sent a strong message, Iowans want LESS government and for the government to do its primary job of protecting our rights. Other states like Montana and Texas and making bold moves and taking strong steps toward protecting their citizens, all we are asking is for our Republican elected leaders to do the same.

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04-25-2021

Coreena Kinney []

I support HF 889,and I feel it should be more strongly worded to prevent employers from requiring any vaccine as a condition of employment. Also, please plug up the leak in IRIS. My employer has all the information needed to access my personal medical information that is in IRIS. They currently could look it up without my permission. A vaccine passport does not in any way guarantee good health. Vaccines can fail to provide protection, may not have ever been tested to prevent vacinees from becoming silent carriers, and as a class, are limited to potentially providing protection against just a handful of diseases. Please protect citizens like myself from a loss of freedom and from medical tyranny. My healthcare choices are my business, and no one else's.

04-25-2021

Annette Abusharkh []

Our family if 6 is asking you to support this bill HF 889, for Vaccine Passport Protection. We have multiple autoimmune diseases/syndromes/conditions in our home. We would like our medical privacy and body autonomy respected and protected. We should decide what we put into our bodies and what of our medical history we allow to be shared with others.Also please add amendments for including healthcare facilities in this bill. We would also like to have IRIS addressed with regards to keeping our medical records confidential and that we would not be able to be discriminated against.Support our rights to medical privacy, freedom and to not being discriminated against.

04-25-2021

Jacqueline Beran []

I am writing to urge you to support HF 889. By doing so, you will be protecting the privacy and freedoms of all Iowans. I also request that you amend it to include further protections. This bill needs to include healthcare facilities, as well as their employees. This bill also needs to address the current IRIS system, which is being utilized to confirm vaccination status even now. Both the IRIS system and vaccine passports would violate our right to medical privacy and bodily autonomy and could eventually lead to discrimination. Thank you for your consideration.

04-25-2021

Amanda Kinzenbaw []

Please do not require the people of Iowa to get the Covid shot. It has not been proven effective or safe, especially in the long term. We also need to keep our rights as it pertains to our health. Thank you.

04-25-2021

Mark Sandersfeld []

To the uninformed. The misnamed vaccine is not a vaccine it is an Experimental Gene Therapy. An experimental drug cannot be mandated against our rights or religious freedoms. Call it what it is and not what it is not. This is the largest ruse the American public has ever had to confront. Do your job legislators and defend the publics rights against socialism.

04-25-2021

Melanie Bell []

Please support this bill to say NO to vaccine passports. Also, please amend the bill to add businesses, schools, and any other entity to the list of entities NOT allowed to demand vaccine passports. As American citizens, we should have the right to make our own health care decisions over our own body, not be forced by the government or businesses. There's many studies out that prove that vitamin D will go a long way in keeping people healthy, so there are other ways to stay healthy than shots that are not even approved other than for emergency use. There are no long term studies proving the safety of the covid19 vaccine.

04-25-2021

Daniel Bell []

Please support this bill to say NO to vaccine passports. Also, please amend the bill to add businesses, schools, and any other entity to the list of entities NOT allowed to demand vaccine passports. There's many studies out that prove that vitamin D will go a long way in keeping people healthy, so there are other ways to stay healthy than shots that are not even approved other than for emergency use. There are no long term studies proving the safety of the covid19 vaccine. This also infringes on our right to medical privacy and HIPPA issues. Imagine if everyone had to prove that they did not have HIV to go into an establishment? This is no different.

04-25-2021

Annetta Elgatian []

Please support this bill. We must retain our freedom to choose what medical care we wish to receive. Creating a vaccine passport will cause discrimination against those who choose not to receive vaccines on the basis of religion, health issues etc.....

04-25-2021

Joan Mohr []

Please say NO to vaccine passports. There have been over 2,600 reported deaths to VAERS as a result of the covid19 vaccine since January 2021. We should not be forced to take a shot that has potential to kill us and we don't know if it will kill us until we take it. I know 2 people who lost their fathers shortly after the fathers took the covid19 vaccine. With a 99.9% survival rate, there is no reason to force people to take this shot.

04-25-2021

Elizabeth Sanders []

PASS THIS BILL!!! It is your duty as elected officials to protect and serve your states constituents who allowed you to be in this position. We the people have been continually let down by our elected officials and our rights trampled on and snatched out from under us in the blink of an eye. please protect this right of ours to make our own decisions regarding our health and our families health. It is not a one size fits all decision, and we have to be respected as individuals and trust that we ourselves, are our families best advocate. NO one else holds that position.

04-25-2021

Amy Long []

Please support this bill! Healthcare should not be a one size fits all mandate. There are so many reasons why a vaccine passport is a horrible idea. Please pass this bill. Do not allow vaccine passports anywhere!

04-25-2021

Tracy Mills []

Please support this bill, with amendments. It's my hope that someday we won't have to duplicitly legislate constitutional guarantees. As the current pandemic has revealed such blind madness among elected and bureaucratic leadership, please show your support of freedom to access commerce, public transport, employment, education and healthcare regardless of ones fully informed choices to accept or decline medical intervention. There is an unconscionable level of denial of the risks to health and life from vaccinations by political and healthcare leaders. It's an insult to the public's intelligence to pretend there aren't dangerous risks, and presume to know better than individuals and parents.Never before have we segregated populations according to their compliance to health models. Not even for actually having deadly transmittable conditions, let alone HEALTY people. Don't allow a precident to be set that well and healthy unaltered persons can be discriminated against by misguided megalomaniacs.

04-26-2021

Brei Johnson []

Thank you for working to move this legislation. Please do a complete job of protecting Iowans and amend this legislation so it does apply to healthcare facilities and addresses concerns over the IRIS system which is accessible to the public and provides no opt out option.

04-26-2021

Darin Hartvigsen []

I very sincerely ask our legislators to study this issue out in your minds, and make a decision based on the minds of the people you represent and please not partisan politics. I go back and forth on this issue. And at some point we need to stop the fear. Living in fear does not promote freedom. Sincerely, I ask how much do you really know and understand about this virus? Has there ever been anything like this legislated concerning a previous virus? I dont know. I have been vaccinated for many things. To travel oversees we have requirements for vaccinations to visit other countries. There is much distrust with politics and any headline today. They all contradict each other. That is really true. So I ask again, how much do you know about this vaccination? What are the risks vs the benefits? Who do you represent and how much do you know to represent us honestly? Keeping us healthy does not necessarily mean a legislated vaccine. It might. Our freedoms are legislated too. Many times there is no black or white answer. Until you feel truly that you are heavily decided with honesty and clarity of mind (not partisan lines etc) please vote to keep our freedoms do not legislate mandatory vaccinations to travel freely in out country or state. Respectfully if you really havent studied this issue deeply on your own to be confident in your representation then please vote mandatory vaccination downlet the individual decide. The vast majority of the people can make safe decisions and avoid fear. If you are very confident and have an honest understandingenough to vote to pass legislation then so be it. Please do this honestly and unitedly, and speak also in such a way that we can stand unitedly.

04-26-2021

Christophe Petit []

What is green passport vaccine? Here's my answer:It's in line with china credit score same thing. It is the current system in Israel which tells you what you can do and what you cannot do. In Israel, it's regulated heavily by government nazi regime asking: papers please which is global United Nation for the r st of the world that will most likely replace the local police department.If you do not have the proof of the Certificate Of Vaccination ID (COVID) you cannot buy good or he a good citizen, the globalist will reject you and you can't get what the system offer if you are not in it and do not build it up. It's similar than the US credit score except it is fully committed to the government and system as a whole.Totalitarian system globalist system and society hand to hand like religion in Israel and islam is religion and society. It is leading to the upcoming mark of the beast which will only allow those microchipped to buy and implanted on the arm and head and as for the others, they will either have faith in GD or did a martyr death.We are at war, ear war 3 will likely be nuclear cloud and all will get to complete darkness. The messaih will come very soon in our lifetime so it will get darker before it gets better.Right now the sheriff asked in a letter to me to donate money to train police department. Why? Training for something upcoming new... I'm not donating for something I don't know details about. Iowa state has been sending so far 2 update for injection and there soon will be 20 or 30 more so that many weeks until their agenda come to pass. It's coming here too. Don't worry. If people do not say NO now, then When..?I told the Rabbi ChabadMy farmers friends black american farm might take me but I give them and everyone late notice, I got video an hour ago. And it's meaningful because I'm not born here. I came to america as a land of opportunity for me, it is like Avraham had to go to another land so I certainly don't take the US for granted. American people mostly are ignorant, unthankful, and cowards ..they rather obey cdc than Hashem that they don't search for Him. Sad. Our country w exam save it only the true patriots that care.

04-26-2021

Christophe Petit []

I support this bill. It is each person body, his right to decide. One shall not be forced to get the jab to get benefits . It's called incentive and bribe and unconstitutional. A nation under Gd and Pharaon was the enslavers of the israelites. Now the enslavers have diffe by names and organization. Send them back to where they came from, to the darkness of the bottomless pit.

04-26-2021

Alysia Alger []

I am writing to urge your support of HF 889. Every Iowan should have the autonomy to make the best informed medical decisions for themselves and their children based on their own individual research and values without governmental intrusion or oversight. Covid19, in its worst case scenario, has a survival rate of 91%, and recent reports have shown the currently available vaccines, which are not yet FDAapproved, are not without serious, though rare, potential risk to life and health. Regardless of the health issue in question, no Iowan should be treated or made to feel like a secondclass citizen for making their own choices relating to the prevention or treatment of any medical condition. America was founded on the principles of individual liberty and personal responsibility and Iowans must not sacrifice these ideals on the altar of fear.

04-26-2021

Margaret Nixon []

Please support this Bill. This is a private medical decision about an unapproved treatment. This type of vaccination has previously NEVER been approved due to severe adverse complications during the animal trials. This experimental gene therapy treatment SKIPPED the animal trial phase. There are VERY EFFECTIVE and VERY SAFE therapeutics. I overwhelming support the passage of this bill.

04-26-2021

Suzanne Welton []

Please, please do the right thing for ALL citizens. Go back in history, take a hard look at I.G. Farben and Hitler, let us not do that again!!! We are on a slippery slope here and while I am not sure our government has our best interests at heart I am sure Big Pharma does not have our interests at all.Please!

04-26-2021

Mindy Paulson []

SUPPORT HF 889 and pass it WITH AMENDMENTS to protect ALL Iowans from being required to receive medical treatments (vaccines, injections) against their will, no exceptions. Please work diligently to add further protections in this bill regarding healthcare facilities, schools, and employees everywhere, and to close the loophole where IRIS is concerned so the privacy of all Iowans is protected.

04-26-2021

Candy Bilstad []

Pass this bill and stand for God given rights to choose how to take care of our own medical treatment. This is not a viable vaccine and we are merely being used as a laboratory specimen to run trials on a massive scale. We are living in the last days. Make yourself aware of what technological advances could be used against the common people for total population control. Freedom is never free and standing for what is deemed good is NOT always RIGHT. Read your Bible, seek Gods counsel, you have been placed in this very position for such a time as this to do the RIGHT thing!

04-26-2021

Kathy Pietraszewski []

I urge you to support our rights to make informed medical choices. I am a caregiver and my husband has an immunocompromised condition. In a 45year marriage, I have seen firsthand what drugs do to the human body. He has had 13 joint replacements and been on all kinds of prescriptions. Since his severe stroke nearly 14 years ago, I had to start taking care of him and all his meds. I began asking questions of the doctors as to why he was on a certain prescription. Some of them were for the side effects of the others. It did not take long to get him down to 4 drugs from 13. He eats good food and does not take flu shots. Some doctors have said he is a walking miracle, but a lot of it is also just taking care of the bodies God has given us. Forcing anyone to take an experimental shot they do not want sets the wheels in motion for total government tyranny. Think about this: There are many people like me who are fearful of being near people who recently had the Covid "vaccine" because there is a strong possibility they can shed the virus without knowing it. Yet, we are not asking you to stop them from going into public places. Why should healthy people like me be required to take a toxic shot to go anywhere? Do you really want to discriminate on people this way? I think not. After all, it is not whether I wear a mask or take a shot which makes me less of a threat to other people. Rather, it is whether I have the moral character to stay at home if I know I have symptoms. (No law can enforce that.) Support medical freedom. Do your part to keep America a place where people might actually want to live.

04-26-2021

Sarah Farnsworth []

As an Iowan, the Vaccine Passport Bill (HF 889) is of extreme importance to me. I am an educated, informed citizen and I have great concern over businesses, places of employment, and other services in the community asking for my private health information in order to participate in my community. I passionately urge you to PASS this bill in order to maintain our freedoms, and further consider amending it to protect Iowans as it does not seem to apply to Healthcare facilities or their employees, and the use of the IRIS system as potential to violate an individual's right to privacy and leading to discrimination. Having a bill like this will further help alleviate the worry over having our inalienable rights violated. Our right to medical privacy and bodily autonomy is pivotal in maintaining our freedom. We the people, are the only ones that know our private, personal, medical and history and health condition and should be able to choose what to inject into our bodies. The COVID injections are still in the investigation and experimental phase. No employer or government may force or coerce anyone to take these injections. Federal law requires full informed consent.. I urge you to heed the advice of Liberty Counsel to not only reject vaccine passports but support HF889 to ban them.

04-26-2021

Dan Hankner [12 Stones Electric]

I urge you to not only pass this bill, but amend it so the following are also covered it is absolutely critical that our state stands up against the inevitable onslaught of tyranny from our federal government:Must apply to healthcare facilitiesMust address Immunization Registry Information System (IRIS)Must apply to employees at said entities, violating their individual right to medical privacy and bodily autonomy.

04-26-2021

Nicole Hasso []

Please pass this bill, This is an individual decision not a government or state decision. We are not force to get a flu shot, we should not be force to be vaccinated. HIPP allows us to have privacy when it comes to our health. I am in support of this bill, please leave it to the individual. I should not be penalized if I choose not to be vaccinated.

04-26-2021

Courtney Collier []

Please support this bill to prevent the use of vaccine passports in Iowa. As Iowans we say our liberties we pride and our rights we will maintain therefore we must say NO to any legislation that violates those. A vaccine passport is a tyrannical and fascist concept which violates privacy and basic human rights. Please amend this bill to include all health care facilities and their employees. Please also amend to prevent the use of IRIS as a means of verifying vaccination status. Personal medical procedures including vaccines must remain a private and individually consented to decision after receiving fully informed consent.

04-26-2021

Marni Hockenberg [Marni Hockenberg]

Please support this critical bill. Our personal liberties and freedoms are being eliminated step by step. We will not tolerate any form of a Covid passport or whatever misleading name they call it.Iowa is one of the states that does try to protect it's citizens from government overreach. Let's set a shining example of how we value and are commmitted to personal freedom and liberty. Iowa has had an official state motto since 1847: "Our Liberties We Prize and Our Rights We Will Maintain. Let us stay true to our founding principles!

04-26-2021

Lori Hauxwell []

Please support this bill. I for one am unable to take this due to multiple reasons. Namely l have an immune issue and cannot take this. Beyond this l still would not. Thanking you in advance. Lori Hauxwell

04-26-2021

Lori Hauxwell []

04-26-2021

Kayla Byington []

These vaccines are only approved for emergency use. In just four months, over 2500+ deaths have been reported and 50,000 adverse eventsand this is just what has been submitted to a passive, unfamiliar reporting system (VAERS). We have no understanding of the long term consequences of this technology.Vaccine passports would force an experimental technology on our children, who have a 0% chance of dying from this virus. Please dont risk their futures. Pass this bill with the proper amendments to avoid any medical discrimination.

04-26-2021

Paula Vandewall []

04-26-2021

Teresa Meyer []

Any governmental entity, public or private business requiring proof of vaccination is medical and religious discrimination. I do NOT consent to vaccine passports. Please amend and pass this legislation. Lines 3031 must be removed. Healthcare cannot be prohibited based on medical conditions or religious convictions. This bill should also be amended to include Iowa's workforce. It is medical and religious discrimination to require mandatory vaccination for employment. Thank you.

04-26-2021

Pat Miletich [Iowa Gun Owners]

Creating a two level society that excludes any group of citizens is a flat out human rights violation. Whether you did or did not get the "experimental gene therapy" injection, it would absolutely rip this state apart and lead to further oppression. Every business in Iowa must adhere to the same and not be allowed to discriminate for ANY reason whatsoever. If you don't think there is a darker plan by these elites, go to YouTube and type in "Shindlers list" along with "essential worker" and watch the one minute clip

04-26-2021

Jonathan Otto []

Please support freedom, choice, the US Constitution, and God given rights. The Draconian measure of vaccine passports have no place in this great State. They are not needed and not wanted. Please support this bill.

04-26-2021

Kate Giebeck []

Please support this bill. We need to be proactive in supporting and PROTECTING our God given freedoms. There is no way my family's personal medical decisions should affect our everyday life and be on display for the world to know. My family and their health is my first priority, and it is no one's business but our own!

04-26-2021

Brenda Zobel-Moody []

Please support this bill. We should never have a vaccine passport. We, as FREE American citizens, should be allowed to make our own health decisions. This virus has a 99% survival rate and we should be allowed to choose to use our own natural immunity. We should have a choice, both in whether we choose to get the vaccine and whether we choose to wear masks. We should not be forced or coerced to do either one.Please do the right thing and support our rights as American citizens. Enough has been taken away,

04-26-2021

Angelique Gilbert []

I SUPPORT HF 889. "Vaccine Passports" pressure citizens to participate in the ongoing COVID19 vaccine EXPERIMENT. All of the injections available from Moderna, Pfizer, Johnson and Johnson, and Astrazenca are still under AUTHORIZED EMERGENCY USE, we cannot pressure citizens to accept an EXPERIMENTAL MEDICAL PROCEDURE simply so they can engage in normal life: this is exactly the sort of thing the United States and Iowa need to stand AGAINST. Healthcare workers also need to be protected from being required to accept this experimental procedure. Patients need to have access to normal, preventative healthcare regardless of their vaccination status. The ability for students to have normal attendance in school regardless of vaccine status needs to be protected. Please consider adding these items to the current bill.Please, please protect our GodGiven freedoms! God bless.

04-26-2021

Bethany Niermeyer []

I am writing in STRONG support of HF 889 to ban vaccine passports. Though I am concerned with how vague this bill is. We need protection from vaccine mandates at EVERY level, not just at the government level. I do not want anything to do with an incredibly experimental vaccine for me nor my family. My son is 9 and had a stroke after his 2 month vaccines and I already have to drive 2 hours for him to see a doctor, even WITH a medical exemption. I know hospitals cannot deny you care but what if one of us just needs some routine blood work, or antibiotics, etc? Will we be denied if we do not have a covid vaccine? Will I have to drive 2 hours for that too? There is literally no pediatric or family doctor in the Cedar Rapids area that will see my son unless I get him full up to date on his vaccines. I worry about being able to still get groceries, or gas, etc. if this bill does not address private businesses. Governor Reynolds may not have forced us to mask, but the businesses did. I fear this is exactly what will happen if we do not address this now. Especially with these mask mandates not going anywhere. I know we may not agree, but this is incredibly important to my family and MANY others across the state. I don't care if people chose to get a vaccine but a vaccine should NEVER be forced on anyone, especially just to provide for their families (work, groceries, etc.) ESPECIALLY when this vaccine is not even fully FDA approved and the trials aren't up for over a year depending on the manufacturer.

04-26-2021

N H []

The fact that a bill like this even has to be introduced and brought to the table for debate right now just goes to show, how CORRUPT this entire PLAN is.Where along the line have we forgotten that we live in a FREE COUNTRY; and that ABSOLUTELY NO ONE SHALL EVER HAVE CONTROL OVER FREE, SOVEREIGN INDIVIDUALS?!Tyranny is happening on so many levels right now and it's all in plain sight, but WOW have MANY been blinded. At a time like this WE ALL DESERVE THE TRUTH and it's absolutely appalling to me at how much the TRUTH is being suppressed. Sadly, money talks and "The biggest wallet pays for the most blinding lights." ON TYRANNY by Timothy Snyder. OPEN YOUR EYES!!! ENOUGH IS ENOUGH!!! REMEMBER YOUR OATH AND OUR STATE MOTTO: "OUR LIBERTIES WE PRIZE, AND OUR RIGHTS WE WILL MAINTAIN."

04-26-2021

Lisa McClure []

For freedom's sake, pass this bill. Please amend it to include further protections as the current bill: *does not apply to healthcare facilities*does not address IRIS being utilized to confirm vaccination status, violating the individual's right to privacy and potentially leading to discrimination*does not apply to employees at said entities, violating their individual right to medical privacy and bodily autonomyNO ONE, including private businesses, should be able to refuse services/access due to a medical reason. Those companies choosing to require this should be excluded from doing service in our great state. One should not have to disclose medical status to participate freely in society. This would be tyranny. Iowa is a leader in right action. Iowans don't support tyranny.

04-26-2021

Tessa Callender []

I am not one to push many issues, but I feel extremely passionate about protecting our freedoms & rights with the topics at hand as they are quite unconstitutional. I am active duty military & stationed here locally in a hometown billet. I fully support this bill & the amendments against any sort of medical passport along with giving us choice over what we put into our body & into our children, especially when it is experimental & no longterm studies have been done. I have read some pretty scary stuff with all of this that they are censoring & to combat any of it, we need to protect our freedoms & what we stand for, just like the flag of Iowa says. Thank you for your time & consideration!

04-27-2021

Danielle Lin []

Freedom of choice is huge! We must never take away Americans right to choose what goes into their bodies. This shot has skipped the rigorous testing process and been given Emergency Use Authorization. There is much we DO NOT KNOW yet. Protect the health and safety of your constituents by passing HF 889 to BAN vaccine passports. Thank you.