A Vaccine Passport Will Be Your Golden Ticket as the World Reopens

For tourism-dependent businesses battered by the yearlong pandemic, so-called vaccine passports may offer the best route back to normality. The airline industry, for instance, is backing a range of tech solutions to verify passengers’ Covid vaccination or testing status, and a handful of apps have been rolled out.

Advocates say that once established in the travel sector, such digital passes could hold the key to a wider reopening of society, such as business meetings, conventions, sports events and concerts. Ultimately some gyms, bars, restaurants, and even shops could also rely on the new vaccination documents to help patrons gain easier access.

But not everyone is a fan.

None of the available shots is 100% effective, meaning travelers with vaccine passports could in theory continue to spread the virus. Some vaccines, such as Russia’s Sputnik V, haven’t been cleared in many other parts of the world. And then there’s the issue of fairness.

The passports would inevitably favor rich nations over poorer ones, where the distribution of shots has barely begun. They’d initially open up travel to a cohort of the elderly and middle-aged that have been prioritized for inoculation, leaving younger people effectively under travel curfew. And then there’s data privacy concerns.

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[infinitymaster]

"golden ticket" more like yellow star

[RobertWardDavidson]

Health passport is the worst idea I’ve ever heard.

[bryana]

You can take your golden ticket, and stick it where the sun doesn't shine.

[joshcooper]

They're on the losing side and they know it. See the desperation? lol

[soggybiscuit]

Before
"Vacinne passports are a conspiracy theory!"
Now
"Vacinne passports were never a conspiracy they told you it was coming"
💁🏾‍♀️

[RedirGoud]

So... we don't need ID to friggin vote, but now you want us to have an ID to go anywhere or do anything? No!

[davidmann]

All the conspiracy theories are coming true.

[SubliminalMessagesTV]

Well there you have it. They managed to force the mark of the beast after all.

[SmigMc]

This good but voter ID is bad?bizarro world man

[snowfox]

*Take the golden ticket and shove it!*

[michaelgarcia]

Vaccine passports sound like something the SS would beat you for not having it on your person at all times...

[bobby-ovqn]

I don’t think so Bloomberg. Nope, not at all

[lulu]

We need to stand up for our freedom or our kids will pay for it

[catcowboy]

Whoever makes hacked vaccine passports first is gonna make bank!

[tigertalks]

Gonna be problems if the installed potato pushes this .lol. no wonder he potatos behind a fence. Cant do this, its medical discrimination.

[cdsmit]

Hey we're all lab rats now. 👏👏👏👏 isn't this fun?!!

[youngjedi]

I’m good. I don’t even like gold, I’m not a jewelry type person. I just don’t see the value in gold so I’ll just pass on that golden ticket there, mate.

[cierrasagacious]

Yeah, this will go to court. No one is going to be okay with this. Airlines will be sued, I'm sure.

[TheRealQhue]

Look, the people you are after are the people you depend on.  We cook your meals,  we haul your trash,  we connect your calls,  we drive your ambulances. We guard you while you sleep. Do not... fuck with us.

[Kilroy]

Ahhh Soviet Russia also had passports for their citizens in the 1930’s and everyone caught without one was sent to “re-education camps” or gulags.