France has gone authoritarian in a ham-fisted fashion. The Paris regime’s attempt to control the movement of its citizens failed spectacularly twice in a week when the platform that generates government QR codes was overwhelmed. The result, predictably, was chaos.

France and other wannabe authoritarian European Soviet Union (ESU) countries with ambitions to lord over their citizens’ movements by introducing health passes have eyes that are bigger than their stomachs. They have proven repeatedly that they’re far too incompetent and stupid to practice proper authoritarianism. Even Albania did better. Events last week are a case in point.

French President Emmanuel Macron announced in the high heat of summer that all French citizens would require a health pass to access all venues in daily life with a capacity of 50 or more people, meaning a negative Covid-19 nose swab test, the full vaccination protocol, or a positive Covid test no more than six months old, after which you’re expected to ignore your acquired immunity and submit to yet another clot-shot jab.

Suddenly, people camping in the middle of summer found themselves unable to use the outdoor pool at their vacation destination and unable to take high-speed trains back home without the health pass. And this pass takes only one form, that of a QR code generated by a government-run platform. 

When a healthcare professional, such as a doctor or pharmacist, enter your test or jab information into the system, called SIDEP (which stands for Population Screening Information System, like something out of a bad sci-fi movie), you receive a link via text message and/or email that you click to download the QR code to a government-issued smartphone app called TousAntiCovid (or All Anti-Covid).

This can then be scanned at the entrance to swimming pools, gyms, shopping malls, restaurants, hospitals, libraries, movie theatres, or trains.

This useless system of apartheid, in practice, allows negative tested un-jabbed to mingle freely with non-tested but jabbed potential Covid carriers. It also, in practice is completely unreliable in the image of its creators. On August 9, the same day that the system was expanded beyond just leisure venues like gyms and pools, Macron’s start-up nation project crashed for several hours, leaving people locked out of daily life.

Apparently, the government wasn’t prepared for the number of people who all needed to request a QR code at the same time. But then, just four days later, on Friday of the August holiday weekend, as people were scrambling for tests and QR codes to access their travel, hotels, and other activities, the system crashed yet again from 3:30 pm to at least midnight, again apparently due to usage volume. 

Yet another tried addressing Health Minister Olivier Veran, saying that World of Warcraft’s gaming platform was more reliable than the government’s system: ‘Hello @olivierveran. Is it normal to have fewer connection problems on @Warcraft_FR than on the SiDep? What do I do with the vaccinations and the tests?

It’s one thing to have designs on creating a massive data dragnet under sanitary pretext, which some Western countries appear to now be doing in order to compete with China’s data collection system of social credit, which uses people’s private information to control them by dictating which venues and activities they’re permitted to access. But it’s another to not even have the discipline or the competence to be authoritarian.

About the only thing worse than an authoritarian government is a shambolic and bewildered authoritarian government. The result is chaos, as we’re discovering. Big Tech is censoring us. FOLLOW MY BLOG to continue getting our news.