Here come the vaccine passports

[Greenbeard]

Yes, please. The pre-emptive move to rule out this concept earlier this year was misguided.

Here come the vaccine passports

As a growing number of businesses demand proof of vaccination from customers or employees, a card that shows you’ve been vaccinated against COVID-19 may soon be as vital as a driver’s license. But the paper cards from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention are fragile and easy to forge.

The Vaccination Credential Initiative (VCI), a consortium of major tech and health care companies including Microsoft, Salesforce, Oracle, and the Mayo Clinic, says it’s come up with a more durable way to show genuine proof of vaccination. It’s the SMART Health Card, a national standard for digital vaccine certificates based on technology from Boston Children’s Hospital. The standard was recently finalized, and is now rolling out across the United States.

“We’ve gotten most of the big health care technology vendors in the country,” said JP Pollak, cofounder of The Commons Project, a global nonprofit that’s part of the VCI consortium. “We’ve got most of the big pharmacy chains, all of the key health systems. Several states have agreed to adopt this particular standard.”

The SMART system features a QR code that can be displayed on the screen of a smartphone, or printed on a piece of paper. The code can be read by any smartphone or computer with the correct software. It reveals the person’s name and date of birth, as well as the date of the vaccination, where it was administered, and which vaccine was used. It displays no other medical information. The code is also digitally signed to ensure it was issued by a legitimate institution, such as a state public health department or a pharmacy. This virtually eliminates the risk of forgery.

 

[CaughtInThe]

we had the technology to stamp out this virus before it killed tons of Republicans.

we just decided to let more Americans die.

 

[Artymoon]

Yes, please. The pre-emptive move to rule out this concept earlier this year was misguided.

Here come the vaccine passports

This seems to have been on the horizon and I imagine more businesses in certain areas will probably enact something like this. I wonder how they plan to handle vaccinated people who can also spread the virus?

 

[Helix]

Sounds good. We can keep anti-vax nutters alive by dropping Ramen noodles from helicopters. Ramen noodles have been keeping college kids alive for at least 50 years, and they also have to be vaccinated.

 

[longview]

There is a saying about management that goes something like this,
you cannot motivate someone else, but you can encourage them to motivate themselves!
I think it is past time for the Government to encourage everyone to motivate themselves to get vaccinated!

 

[ModG23]

This seems to have been on the horizon and I imagine more businesses in certain areas will probably enact something like this. I wonder how they plan to handle vaccinated people who can also spread the virus?

You are worried about the 1% of vaccinated and not about the 60% of certain age groups that refuse to get vaccinated? That’s crazy thinking.

 

[gboisjo]

we had the technology to stamp out this virus before it killed tons of Republicans.

I mean how stupid are these people as they come clean on there death beds "I shoulda got the shot".

We need to vaccinate the 12 and under population, especially with Govenors like DeSantis who has no problem with killing youngsters.

 

[gboisjo]

There is a saying about management that goes something like this,
you cannot motivate someone else, but you can encourage them to motivate themselves!
I think it is past time for the Government to encourage everyone to motivate themselves to get vaccinated!

Exactly, its time to mandate the morons.

 

[Artymoon]

You are worried about the 1% of vaccinated and not about the 60% of certain age groups that refuse to get vaccinated? That’s crazy thinking.

I'm not worried at all. I was just curious when workers are getting sick in vaccinated only facilities what businesses next step might be. Do you think only 1% of vaccinated people are able to spread?

 

[CaughtInThe]

I mean how stupid are these people as they come clean on there death beds "I shoulda got the shot".

We need to vaccinate the 12 and under population, especially with Govenors like DeSantis who has no problem with killing youngsters.

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sometimes mass murders of living, breathing humans is overlooked.

 

[Ikari]

I mean, we'll see where this goes. It is likely not the worst idea while in the midst of a global pandemic.

 

[Checkerboard Strangler]

Sounds good. We can keep anti-vax nutters alive by dropping Ramen noodles from helicopters. Ramen noodles have been keeping college kids alive for at least 50 years, and they also have to be vaccinated.

BOOM!!!!

 

[longview]

Exactly, its time to mandate the morons.

while I would be ok with a mandate, I think we can accomplish the same thing by making it so inconvenient to not be vaccinated
that everyone will choose that option.

 

[Overitall]

while I would be ok with a mandate, I think we can accomplish the same thing by making it so inconvenient to not be vaccinated
that everyone will choose that option.

How do you achieve that without trampling on rights?

 

[beefheart]

I've opened an account on Clear, uploaded my card, and I can use it for travel and for many other businesses.

If you aren't vaccinated, you need to be the one that is facing scorn and obstacles. Some of us are grown ups and are responsible...sadly, the anti vax idiots are not.

 

[gboisjo]

If you aren't vaccinated, you need to be the one that is facing scorn and obstacles. Some of us are grown ups and are responsible...sadly, the anti vax idiots are not.

Exactly.

 

[longview]

How do you achieve that without trampling on rights?

Encouragement! I am not sure what form that encouragement will be, but I would favor that over an outright mandate.

 

[gboisjo]

How do you achieve that without trampling on rights?

Rights, the right to infect your neighbor and possibly kill that person.

 

[Phys251]

Yes, please. The pre-emptive move to rule out this concept earlier this year was misguided.

Here come the vaccine passports

Good. No more playing nice with reckless covidiots. If they don't want the vaccine, they are free to stay in their bunkers and keep their disease to themselves.

 

[longview]

I just hope they approve the vaccine for kids under 13 soon!

 

[Overitall]

Rights, the right to infect your neighbor and possibly kill that person.

I can catch the flu from my next door neighbor and die. Should he be forced to take the flu vaccine?

 

[ModG23]

I'm not worried at all. I was just curious when workers are getting sick in vaccinated only facilities what businesses next step might be. Do you think only 1% of vaccinated people are able to spread?

If only 1% are getting breakthrough yes they can spread it. It’s a small amount but still concerning when 1 person can spread on aberage to 5 others. It is however not as much of concern as unvaccinated are.

 

[ModG23]

I can catch the flu from my next door neighbor and die. Should he be forced to take the flu vaccine?

It’s elective. Right now the flu is not a pandemic because the vaccines have impeded the transmission enough for herd immunity. Hopefully we will reach that point with COVID-19 before it mutates stronger.

 

[Artymoon]

If only 1% are getting breakthrough yes they can spread it. It’s a small amount but still concerning when 1 person can spread on aberage to 5 others. It is however not as much of concern as unvaccinated are.

That view may be changing.

Study: Vaccinated people can carry as much virus as others

In another big setback for the nation’s efforts to stamp out the coronavirus, scientists who studied a big COVID-19 outbreak in Massachusetts concluded that vaccinated people who got so-called breakthrough infections carried about the same amount of the coronavirus as those who did not get the shots

apnews.com

 

[ecofarm]

All the people who have passports want a 'vaccinated' passport stamp. All the inbreds with Confederate flag drapes, who've never left their county, cry about it.

International travelers get vaccinated. They're worldly. They're not scared of a vaccination. They don't believe the government is chipping people. They're grown-ups doing grown-up things.

Hillbillies never left their trailer park and they cry. They cry about something that has nothing to do with them and will never have anything to do with them. If their family completely turned it around this generation, it would still be a couple generations before any go anywhere.

So, please, spare us the cries of the eleven-toed. Spare us the wails of the two-teefed. They have nothing to do with this.