These are people convinced they and their frat brothers are best qualified to run the world’s largest economy.
An Instagram account with the username “vaccinationcards” sells laminated COVID-19 vaccination cards for $25 each. A user on the encrypted messaging app, Telegram, offers “COVID-19 Vaccine Cards Certificates,” for as much as $200 apiece.
An increasing number of inquiries to these sites and similar ones appear to be from those who are trying to get fake vaccination cards for college.
A Reddit user commented on a thread about falsifying COVID-19 vaccination cards, saying, in part, “I need one, too, for college. I refuse to be a guinea pig.”
But they’ll play Covid Roulette, no problem.
In April, a bipartisan coalition of 47 state attorneys general sent a letter to the CEOs of Twitter, Shopify and eBay to take down ads or links selling the bogus cards.
Amanda Marcotte observed, “Paying $400 and getting sick for the privilege of ‘owning the libs’. Makes me long for the slightly less moronic right wingers of my youth, who just tried to foist Ayn Rand novels on you.”