i think a key problem with all the 24/7 news channels and podcasts is that they need to have constant talking points to get the attention of their audiences. one of the latest issues is the so called “vaccine passports” … people like Joe Rogan (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GZqHvpRJtnI) on the right of libertarian side and Russell Brand (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UGgvgKE0n8o) more on the left of the libertarian spectrum have big issues about these passports.
Today, already doctors document if someone gets a vaccine (https://www.cdc.gov/vaccines/hcp/admin/document-vaccines.html). I have a little yellow document that I take to my doctor when I get a new tetanus vaccine. This helps to ensure you stay up on vaccines, know which ones you have (and don’t have), and can prove you have it when you for example travel.
So the question is a vaccine passport doable and practical? Well, it is, because it is already done.
Do you infringe on people’s rights? Well, when I applied for a Green Card, I had to prove I had vaccines so the US already requests proof of vaccination (like schools and other places a lot of time already do).
This is yet another of these situations where talking heads like Joe Rogan who have little to no knowledge about the issues he talks about spreads wildly inaccurate and made up ideas that his listeners eat up and then go chanting on street corners, complaining a vaccine passport “infringes on their liberties.”
What these idiots don’t realize, or don’t want to realize is that just like the non-maskers, the non-vacciners are infringing on all of the rest of our’s liberties. Just because they are ok with endangering others by not wearing masks and not getting vaccinated they are increasing the risk of all the rest of us, increasing the negative economic impact. A vaccine allows us to get back to normal faster, but only if all of us get it. If not, variants will spread and result in more lock downs. To provide safe environments knowing who got a vaccine is key, a document that shows that is the easiest solution. If someone doesn’t won’t to get vaccinated, well don’t, but then don’t complain that you can’t travel – it’s your freedom not to get vaccinated, but with that freedom come consequences … because it is all of our freedom to not want to be in the same plane as you are.
