India’s second wave of Covid-19 feels nothing like its first

Re:India’s second wave of Covid-19 feels nothing like its first by pas on Sunday May 02, 2021 @09:53PM (#27020861)

No idea! What would a chip do? How could people use the chip? Verify it? Then why not just make an app!? (Oh, one was announced in February, but absolutely no signal about it since.)

Corruption and competence rarely go hand in hand.

The whole plastic card thing is a shitshow. I got the shot at the same time as a friend. Same day, same hospital, same vaccine type. Said friend already got the card days ago, no word about whether I should have gotten one or what's going on. No way to ask it either. Only thing folks can do is send an official application for requesting the card, which in theory is completely redundant. But it costs nothing, so I sent one. (It's just a nice form on yet another gov site.)

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Re:India’s second wave of Covid-19 feels nothing like its first by biztos on Tuesday May 04, 2021 @04:31PM (#27042515)

I guess in the US they get a paper card with a CDC logo on it and a stamp for each injection, which will be trivially easy to fake for those who want post-vaxx privileges without actually getting the jab. Saw one on Insta today.

I’m in favor of a vaccine passport but I see a lot of chaos on the horizon as countries with high denialism (US, Germany) but also big outbound tourism and business travel, get real slacky about the passport-ness of it.

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Re:India’s second wave of Covid-19 feels nothing like its first by pas on Wednesday May 05, 2021 @06:07AM (#27048106)

Is that going to be a serious problem though? (Not that I endorse it at all.)

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