Why is everyone losing their shit over this? We _already_ have shot records, and they _already_ have to be provided to school in order to enroll. Some international travel _already_ requires vaccination records.
In the words of the great Star Lord... "everybody chill the F out".
You think this is something public health authorities wanted to do?
The alternative is to keep stuff closed. We can’t go back to normal until we vaccinate enough people and quarantine, vaccine passports are a way to let things open earlier.
You don't have to. Its merely a bar code with an encrypted key, at least in NY (Excelsior Pass [ny.gov]).
Soon, grocery stores and restaurants may choose not allow filthy, infested disease carriers like yourself into their establishments, or have the choice to do business with you.
The difference being that anyone can get a TB vaccine within a few days at minimal cost. Very very few people have a medical reason not to get one.
COVID vaccines are in short supply and I probably won't get mine until near the end of this year. Many more people can't get one for medical reasons, e.g. pregnancy.
So while I'm absolutely for everyone getting a vaccine as soon as possible, in the short term it's creating a big divide between those who have and those who haven't.
COVID vaccines are in short supply and I probably won't get mine until near the end of this year
Where do you live? Europe?
By next week, the US will give the green light for anyone over 16 to apply for the covid shot appointment. In NY state, they're booked to the end of May, but that's still earlier than I or the CDC anticipated at the beginning of the year. Very soon, there will be plenty of vaccine, but 30% of the population will refuse to take it.
Many more people can't get one for medical reasons, e.g. pregnancy.
The vaccine researchers are already studying it, and they're quite optimistic about getting vaccine approval soon. Other than pregnancy, age, allergy
Israel has been giving the vaccine to pregnant women ever since a fetus was born dead due to COVID. (I think that was the case. Definitely some COVID-related medical problem with a pregnancy.) No issues yet, and all mothers and babies have been fine.
Trying to be happy is like trying to build a machine for which the only
specification is that it should run noiselessly.
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Rest of world bans Floridians from traveling there.
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Papers, pls?
Just another potential totalitarian move from Big Tech and the Democrats.
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We _already_ have shot records, and they _already_ have to be provided to school in order to enroll.
Some international travel _already_ requires vaccination records.
In the words of the great Star Lord... "everybody chill the F out".
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Of course. When I started teaching, I had to prove to every school I worked at that I didn't have tuberculosis. I had to show paperwork.
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Good for you. I'm not going to disclose my health records or vaccination status for admission to a grocery store or restaurant.
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You think this is something public health authorities wanted to do?
The alternative is to keep stuff closed. We can’t go back to normal until we vaccinate enough people and quarantine, vaccine passports are a way to let things open earlier.
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Good for you. I'm not going to disclose my health records or vaccination status for admission to a grocery store or restaurant.
Ever shown ID at a bar or a liquor store? It's like that. They check that the photo matches your face, they let you in.
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A dumb hyperbole. Maybe a vaccine passport to go to a 70,000 person football game but a grocery store or bar? Never
This will last until we get the last 40 million americans vaccinated. It will be 90% republican and die hard trumpets in that group too.
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You don't have to. Its merely a bar code with an encrypted key, at least in NY (Excelsior Pass [ny.gov]).
Soon, grocery stores and restaurants may choose not allow filthy, infested disease carriers like yourself into their establishments, or have the choice to do business with you.
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Fantastic! Because I am. Now we'll both be happy knowing our shopping and eating paths will never cross.
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The difference being that anyone can get a TB vaccine within a few days at minimal cost. Very very few people have a medical reason not to get one.
COVID vaccines are in short supply and I probably won't get mine until near the end of this year. Many more people can't get one for medical reasons, e.g. pregnancy.
So while I'm absolutely for everyone getting a vaccine as soon as possible, in the short term it's creating a big divide between those who have and those who haven't.
There are also questions about how
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COVID vaccines are in short supply and I probably won't get mine until near the end of this year
Where do you live? Europe?
By next week, the US will give the green light for anyone over 16 to apply for the covid shot appointment. In NY state, they're booked to the end of May, but that's still earlier than I or the CDC anticipated at the beginning of the year. Very soon, there will be plenty of vaccine, but 30% of the population will refuse to take it.
Many more people can't get one for medical reasons, e.g. pregnancy.
The vaccine researchers are already studying it, and they're quite optimistic about getting vaccine approval soon. Other than pregnancy, age, allergy
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Israel has been giving the vaccine to pregnant women ever since a fetus was born dead due to COVID. (I think that was the case. Definitely some COVID-related medical problem with a pregnancy.) No issues yet, and all mothers and babies have been fine.