Are vaccine passports a good idea?

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The EU has proposed to introduce vaccine passports by the middle of this year. Could it work? There are pros and cons, as we argued last week

-2, the virus that causes covid-19. Although it looks very much as if they also significantly cut transmission, that is not yet certain. Any policy must grapple with questions of fairness and coercion; private approaches to risk versus communal ones; trade-offs between infection and economic activity; and the question of what lockdowns have done to people’s psyches.

Incompetence and snooping could taint the whole idea of vaccine passports and provide grist to covid-conspiracists’ mill. But privacy worries are not insurmountable. David Chadwick, formerly a computer-science professor at Kent University, in England, is the boss of a spin-off company called Verifiable Credentials. Before the covid-19 pandemic, his firm was working on a privacy-focused scheme for workplace identity cards, parking permits, concert tickets and the like.

In April 2020 Verifiable Credentials demonstrated that its prototype would be able to verify vaccine status and covid-test results, as soon as those things existed. Its app is being tested with dummy data at a cinema that actors are using as a rehearsal space, and with real data at a British hospital, where it has replaced existing paper-based methods. The firm is also working on a physical version for use by those without smartphones.

In some countries those worries may be heightened by racial implications. Black Americans are more dubious about vaccines than white ones, and some who want jabs find it harder to get them. They are also, on average, younger than their white compatriots, which means they are further back in the queue. When vaccine roll-outs are fast and free, and priorities are set justly and transparently, questions of equity will be transient.

 

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f^%$% no..

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Council of Europe COVID VACCINES Not Mandatory & NOT TO Pressure Otherwise to Get Vaccine passes motion & ruled vaccination NOTmandatory, no one is discriminated against for not having been vaccinated . requires member states to advise citizens of above.

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This is against human rights and freedom of moves. Previously face masks and 2m distance was good enough. Then COVID tests were introduced. Then 14 days quarantine + 2 covid tests. Guys WTF is wrong with you?

Counting the minutes until some clever bureaucrat comes with the brilliant idea to start selling redemption passports

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Without it the tourist places after a year will starve.

Matter of time until some nifty state starts selling vaccine passports for some favorable investment

Everything has pros and cons. But it's a safest option for those who are travelling. Less spread of any kind of disease or viruses.

Just micochip everyone and be done with it, we know you want to

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