Along_the_Wire I’m not sure what the commute has got to do with anything
That comment was in reference to Jules as he’s such a lockdown zealot for some reason.
Along_the_Wire If I don’t have a vaccine passport, I can’t go on holiday on Saturday. And if I want to go to a mass indoor event, we have to drop to the lowest common denominator when it comes to safety?
For traveling abroad vaccine certification is a bit more complicated. I can understand them as being something which is more within the rights of a country to request for people willing to go somewhere, even if I am still also ultimately against it as the system is so open to abuse - not only from those wishing to deny others from traveling into a country, but also from those wishing to prevent people from leaving their own country. We’ve already seen with the UK in its dealings with France and India how covid passports will increasingly make regular people and their ability to travel pawns in tit-for-tat international negotiations. International travel will become something you are less able to take for granted, being subjected to the political whims of your own government as well as those of other countries.
You also might be falsely assuming that covid passports won’t be readily expanded in future to find even more excuses for people to not be able to travel into and out of countries.
With so many countries demanding covid passports already it is of course tough to not acquiesce to them though.
Domestic use of Covid passports is even less understandable and even more heinous. They’re providing a ready-made excuse for governments to effectively end mass gatherings for good, whether it be a concert or political protest. I remember you being sceptical in the past as to whether they’d be used as a requirement to enter nightclubs, well the threat is now there. Once you’ve accepted it’s fine to discriminate against people on the basis of what’s on their covid passport it is an incredibly slippery slope - want to exclude certain people from public life? Introduce mandatory booster jabs for events and put them to the back of the queue. Easy. You’re rather naive if you think it’ll stop at only covid information being displayed on there as well.
For unvaccinated 35s-and-under, and for those older who have been vaccinated, then covid is now no more dangerous than flu. Covid passports are about control, not health and safety.
It is restrictions on civil liberties with covid as the excuse which is the “lowest common denominator” approach, as it is denying people their freedom based on the irrational fears of a few. That’s also one of the reasons why so many socialists/communists/Marxists love them so much, it is dragging everyone down to their own timid, uneventful and unproductive existence, while maximising state control.
