Did you hear about a digital certification of CoViD-19 vaccination to be checked on the streets? Fact checking declared it's a fake news

Abigail Pereira Aranha

1) False claim: COVID-19 stands for Certification of Vaccination Identification by Artificial Intelligence[1]

By Reuters Staff

April 24, 2020 11:35 AM

Social media users have been sharing images online that claim that COVID-19 is an abbreviation for Certificate of Vaccination Identification by Artificial Intelligence ( here , bit.ly/2RWCiXl and bit.ly/2XZekOV ). The posts often include a black and white photograph of a soldier and two men while the soldier checks a document.

In one post, the top part of the image breaks down each letter of COVID-19 by the corresponding word and then says, “let this sink in.... Certificate Of Vaccination Identification (COVID).” It explains the number 19 by saying it is a reference to artificial intelligence, or A.I. (the first and ninth letters of the alphabet).

There is no evidence to support this claim. The images do not offer a source or justification.

A reverse Google image search of the photograph reveals that it was taken in 1941 in Warsaw, Poland, during World War II. An Austrian digital database provides a description of the photograph, reading (in German): "German guard controls Jewish workers at the ghetto entrance." ( here )

The World Health Organization (WHO) explains on its website how the novel coronavirus was named. This virus is called severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2). The disease it causes is called COVID-19, also known as the novel coronavirus ( here ).

The International Committee on Taxonomy of Viruses (ICTV) gives viruses their names according to their genetic structure and for the benefit of scientific research. It named the virus as SARS-CoV-2 on February 11, 2020, due to its genetic relation to SARS.

The term COVID-19 refers to “coronavirus disease 2019" ( here ).

The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) explains on its website: “The new name of this disease is coronavirus disease 2019, abbreviated as COVID-19. In COVID-19, 'CO' stands for 'corona,' 'VI' for 'virus,' and 'D' for disease. Formerly, this disease was referred to as '2019 novel coronavirus' or '2019-nCoV'.” ( here. )

VERDICT

False: COVID-19 is not an abbreviation for Certificate of Vaccination Identification by Artificial Intelligence, it stands for “coronavirus disease 2019”

This article was produced by the Reuters Fact Check team. Read more about our fact checking work here .

2) Fact checking checking

That's right, this fact checking in 2020 April didn't deny the then coming digital certificate of vaccination, but the link between the name "CoViD-19" and Certificate Of Vaccination Identification. But if in one hand, the so-called conspiracy theorists may have found a bait for one more exaggerated story and this story is now proven not so exaggerated; in the other hand, the supposed fact seekers are now proven not so able or committed to see and to say the truth. Afterwards, a digital credential was developed to control access even in grocery stores and it was the theme of a New York Times article[2]. Since that 2020 April, we have now a lot of examples around the world of restrictions against non-jabbeds, proposed or already in practice, in public transportation, state services, hirings and dismissals in enterprises, entry in stores, and so on.

But the problem here is the disconnection to reality in the mainstream media, exemplified here in the news agency Reuters, at the point that they didn't even behaved as if they were caught in error. You can see there is not an update. No one update to mention that a digital vaccine certification was created afterwards (but it's not related to social segregation). And I made the screenshot March 02, 2022, almost 2 years after the article was published. It seems they forgot they published this article (they, "Reuters Staff"). Somewhat frequently, I read again some blog post of mine or some social network post of mine and I can say "wow, I approached this subject so many time ago!" (usually, I can't say "wow!" gladly), or I see I was not understanding the subject as well as I understand now. But in this article, they seemed they haven't the external objective reality as reference, but only a script to write within. They seemed they thought, in this particular case, that if they only proved those pictures are from 40s and the name "COVID" is, in fact, from "corona virus disease", they would annihilate the "false claim". But it was, in fact, below a lie. They made the Irrelevant Conclusion Fallacy not for malice or manipulation, but for not knowing what's the question and for being unable to perceive the truth. Now, we have that both expositions are true.

And now, while some ordinary people applaud that probable social restrictions via COVID (that Certificate Of Vaccination Identification), Nazist is the man to whom sex with a man would be unpleasant or the woman to whom it's pleasant. Further: thousands of Neo-Nazis in Berlin protest the Government's CoViD-19 restrictions. Or: Neo-Nazis and anti-vaxxers join protest against coronavirus restrictions in Germany. These were real news titles, one by a newspaper from Jordan[3] and one by a newspaper from England[4].

But it's not a matter of what news media is. It's a matter of what the common citizen is.

NOTES AND REFERENCES:

[1] "False claim: COVID-19 stands for Certification of Vaccination

1) False claim: COVID-19 stands for Certification of Vaccination Identification by Artificial Intelligence[1]

By Reuters Staff

April 24, 2020 11:35 AM

Social media users have been sharing images online that claim that COVID-19 is an abbreviation for Certificate of Vaccination Identification by Artificial Intelligence ( here , bit.ly/2RWCiXl and bit.ly/2XZekOV ). The posts often include a black and white photograph of a soldier and two men while the soldier checks a document.

In one post, the top part of the image breaks down each letter of COVID-19 by the corresponding word and then says, “let this sink in.... Certificate Of Vaccination Identification (COVID).” It explains the number 19 by saying it is a reference to artificial intelligence, or A.I. (the first and ninth letters of the alphabet).

There is no evidence to support this claim. The images do not offer a source or justification.

A reverse Google image search of the photograph reveals that it was taken in 1941 in Warsaw, Poland, during World War II. An Austrian digital database provides a description of the photograph, reading (in German): "German guard controls Jewish workers at the ghetto entrance." ( here )

The World Health Organization (WHO) explains on its website how the novel coronavirus was named. This virus is called severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2). The disease it causes is called COVID-19, also known as the novel coronavirus ( here ).

The International Committee on Taxonomy of Viruses (ICTV) gives viruses their names according to their genetic structure and for the benefit of scientific research. It named the virus as SARS-CoV-2 on February 11, 2020, due to its genetic relation to SARS.

The term COVID-19 refers to “coronavirus disease 2019" ( here ).

The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) explains on its website: “The new name of this disease is coronavirus disease 2019, abbreviated as COVID-19. In COVID-19, 'CO' stands for 'corona,' 'VI' for 'virus,' and 'D' for disease. Formerly, this disease was referred to as '2019 novel coronavirus' or '2019-nCoV'.” ( here. )

VERDICT

False: COVID-19 is not an abbreviation for Certificate of Vaccination Identification by Artificial Intelligence, it stands for “coronavirus disease 2019”

This article was produced by the Reuters Fact Check team. Read more about our fact checking work here .

2) Fact checking checking

That's right, this fact checking in 2020 April didn't deny the then coming digital certificate of vaccination, but the link between the name "CoViD-19" and Certificate Of Vaccination Identification. But if in one hand, the so-called conspiracy theorists may have found a bait for one more exaggerated story and this story is now proven not so exaggerated; in the other hand, the supposed fact seekers are now proven not so able or committed to see and to say the truth. Afterwards, a digital credential was developed to control access even in grocery stores and it was the theme of a New York Times article[2]. Since that 2020 April, we have now a lot of examples around the world of restrictions against non-jabbeds, proposed or already in practice, in public transportation, state services, hirings and dismissals in enterprises, entry in stores, and so on.

But the problem here is the disconnection to reality in the mainstream media, exemplified here in the news agency Reuters, at the point that they didn't even behaved as if they were caught in error. You can see there is not an update. No one update to mention that a digital vaccine certification was created afterwards (but it's not related to social segregation). And I made the screenshot March 02, 2022, almost 2 years after the article was published. It seems they forgot they published this article (they, "Reuters Staff"). Somewhat frequently, I read again some blog post of mine or some social network post of mine and I can say "wow, I approached this subject so many time ago!" (usually, I can't say "wow!" gladly), or I see I was not understanding the subject as well as I understand now. But in this article, they seemed they haven't the external objective reality as reference, but only a script to write within. They seemed they thought, in this particular case, that if they only proved those pictures are from 40s and the name "COVID" is, in fact, from "corona virus disease", they would annihilate the "false claim". But it was, in fact, below a lie. They made the Irrelevant Conclusion Fallacy not for malice or manipulation, but for not knowing what's the question and for being unable to perceive the truth. Now, we have that both expositions are true.

And while some ordinary people were applauding that probable social restrictions via COVID (that Certificate Of Vaccination Identification), Nazist is the man to whom sex with a man would be unpleasant or the woman to whom it's pleasant. Further: thousands of Neo-Nazis in Berlin protest the Government's CoViD-19 restrictions. Or: Neo-Nazis and anti-vaxxers join protest against coronavirus restrictions in Germany. These were real news titles, one by a newspaper from Jordan[3] and one by a newspaper from England[4]. There was a time when Nazists confined some groups of people instead of fighting for setting them free.

But it's not a matter of what news media is. It's a matter of what the common citizen is.

NOTES AND REFERENCES:

[1] "False claim: COVID-19 stands for Certification of Vaccination Identification by Artificial Intelligence", Reuters, April 24, 2020. https://www.reuters.com/article/uk-factcheck-covid-name-abbreviation/false-claim-covid-19-stands-for-certification-of-vaccination-identification-by-artificial-intelligence-idUSKCN2262AS.

[2] "Microsoft, Oracle and Salesforce join a push for digital vaccination credentials", New York Times, January 14, 2021. https://www.nytimes.com/live/2021/01/14/business/us-economy-coronavirus#covid-vaccine-credentials-microsoft.

[3] "Thousands of Neo-Nazis in Berlin Protest The Govt's Covid-19 Restrictions", Al Bawaba, August 02, 2020. https://www.albawaba.com/news/thousands-neo-nazis-berlin-protest-govts-covid-19-restrictions-1371977.

[4] "Neo-Nazis and anti-vaxxers join protest against coronavirus restrictions in Germany", Independent, October 05, 2020. https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/europe/coronavirus-covid19-protest-germany-lake-constance-b805022.html.

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