Vaccinated Personnel Must Carry Their Vaccine Card on USFK Installations

Masks rules have been reduced on USFK military installations, but vaccinated people must carry their vaccination card to prove they have been vaccinated:

The command recommends that vaccinated individuals carry their vaccination cards or equivalent documentation for the purpose of contact tracing.

Camp Humphreys, the headquarters south of Seoul of USFK, was more blunt on its Facebook page Saturday: “The onus is on the individual to prove that they have been fully vaccinated and are at least two weeks beyond their final dose of an FDA/KDCA authorized vaccine.”

Fully vaccinated personnel are not required to wear masks on the installation, according to the post. “You must be able to demonstrate that ability. CARRY YOUR CARD.”

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setnaffa
setnaffa
2 years ago

Can you say HIPAA? Nothing about this in the actual law. This is another overreach.

Can they require this of Military members? No.

Under the Military Command Exception, a covered entity may disclose the PHI of Service members for authorized activities to appropriate military command authorities. It is important to note that this exception does not require covered entities to disclose PHI to commanders, it only permits the disclosure. If disclosure is made, then only the minimum amount of information necessary should be provided. Further, the Exception does not permit a Commander’s direct access to a Service member’s electronic medical record, unless otherwise authorized by the Service member or the HIPAA Privacy Rule.

What about dependents? Also no.

Are command authorities allowed access to PHI regarding a Service member’s family member if a situation with that beneficiary negatively impacts the Service member’s ability to perform his/her military mission?

No. The military command exception is only valid for Armed Forces personnel. PHI of family members or other categories of beneficiaries shall never be shared with command authorities without a HIPAA-compliant authorization signed by the beneficiary.

setnaffa
setnaffa
2 years ago

Mind you, they fire LTCs for telling the truth, so I wouldn’t assume that Private Beetle Bailey should attempt to fight city hall unless he wants a bad evaluation from his CoC…

Liz
Liz
2 years ago

Why is someone who has had the virus still required to get the vaccine?

ChickenHead
ChickenHead
2 years ago

Liz, do you have your government-isseued serial numbered individually identifiable Covid Recovery Card?

No?

Well, then…

Just get in line to become a data point for Big Pharma and you may have some of the rights enjoyed by full citizens with their hand-written vaccination proof available in PDF format and printed on standard card stock.

The system is designed for even marginally smart people to avoid and libtard virtue-signalling dummies to self-select whatever horror awaits them (and their children) in the world’s biggest medical experiment.

I am in full support.

I cannot think of a single person who will not shut up about their vaccine enthusiasm which the world will not be a better place without.

(Gonna have to decode that triple negative.)

setnaffa
setnaffa
2 years ago

Speaking of “decoding”, check out “cyberchef”…

These free cybersecurity classes scare me; and, even though I am not ready to call myself a SOC Analyst or Junior Pentester, it is amazing what one can do with free tools (Kali linux, various github sites, etc.)!!!

Oh yeah. Change your passwords more often. Use passphrases of at least 16 characters. Look up a file called “rockyou.txt” and make sure your password is not in there.

Or don’t. That $3M (USD) ATM heist by the Russians in Taiwan (2013?) as well as the SolarWinds hack (2019-2020?) were because of poor password discipline combined with keyloggers downloaded from spearphishing emails. And that’s something real pentesters complain about because year after year the customers keep using one Admin password like “Spring2021” across all domains, all servers.

ChickenHead
ChickenHead
2 years ago

SolarWinds went quiet quite quickly.

I wonder what really happened… who lost, who won, and why it has been forgotten so quickly.

setnaffa
setnaffa
2 years ago

CH, yeah…There were well-known issues that allowed the attack/breach; but there are many forms of remediation: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zGlxC-nGEzE

Smokes
Smokes
2 years ago

“Change your passwords more often.”
Terrible advice. 😛

As to the COVID thing, “for the purpose of contact tracing” is what got me. How does carrying proof of vaccination assist in contact tracing?

MTB Rider
MTB Rider
2 years ago

Fast Times at Ridgemont High:

No Shoes
No Shirt
No COVEFFE-19 Card
No Dice!

You can choose to “forget your card at home,” and the facility can choose to deny service.

setnaffa
setnaffa
2 years ago

It being wfdectively a government function, they are violating HIPAA if they require medical information like that.

Certainly their choice; but in addition to violating HIPAA, we get into “adversely affecting morale and recruitment in time of war” which is covered in 18 USC Chapter 115.

Now, neither the Biden DOD nor DOJ will prosecute; but there is no statute of limitations for violations under Chapter 115… which means they ought to walk more softly around GIs than they are doing…

The next non-Democrat Administration might be less eager to “work and play well with others” than Bush or Trump. And both Obama and Biden have shown that a motivated President can do what they want with their phones and pens.

setnaffa
setnaffa
2 years ago

wfdectively -> effectively.

We really do need that edit button…

ChickenHead
ChickenHead
2 years ago

Edit buttons are for women, children, the weak, and the infirm.

Reql man dont mock misteaks.

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