I’ve been warning of a control system which acts exactly like this, though narrowly, since late 2020. I had certainly thought of it by summer 2020. No explanation fitted so well what I could see, other than ultra control at the level of the individual.
The factor I could hear about from around then was “vaccination”, the relevant record being Vaccine Passports or VaxPass. Blair & others were banging on about this already.
The way it would operate, in my imagination, was that you’d present your ID & payment method. If the authorities had set the requirement that you must have been injected, there’d be an editable field for Y or N. Unless yours said Y, you weren’t permitted to buy the item or cross the regulated threshold.
I knew Blair was lying, because what he said was truly irrational:
If you were not concerned about this nominal public health risk, then you would have no interest in whether a person near you was injected or not.
If you were concerned, you’d have been injected & of course, then you would have no interest in whether a person near you was injected or not.
Formally, by early December 2020, it was clear to me that the injections were designed to cause toxicity at some level. Couple this property with the above control system and you’ve two paths to suffering.
If you complied, you might be able to buy things & move around. But I envisaged that the tyrants would require that you be repeatedly injected with toxins, whose toxicity the tyrants could vary. Comply and be injured and then killed.
Alternatively, you could decline, but you won’t be able to do much. You might even starve, in the most extreme form of the control system.
In the author here’s evaluation, carbon (dioxide) would regulate what you could do. There’s no chance that the tyrants would let this play out like this. You might not suffer & die and that won’t do at all. For avoidance of doubt, I think we’re both correct. The carbon budget is a distraction from the real purpose here, which is controlled depopulation while retaining plausible deniability.