> The income gap was there already, all the vaccine passport does is show it
No, it also strengthens it; both in opportunity and the collective culture.
> Anyone who wants to have a posh vaccine passport can get one easily and at no cost
A, you're wrong; there are many people who can't get vaccinated for various reasons; myocarditis, clots, GBS, CFS, etc.; and B, you're missing the point. Poorer people and minorities have many good reasons, historical and current, to distrust governments and pharma companies.
You say posh four times - it's not about being posh when 80+ % of the population has it.
>The columnist doesn't like the income gap, and protests against the least reliable, most easily subverted signifier?
Again, you are wide of the mark by a considerable margin. For people who have decided - for reasons you consider valid or otherwise - that they are not going to take this particular vaccine, a vaccine passport is not actually easy to get.
I'm happy and proud to come from a country where the "many people who can't vaccinated" are so few.
Anyone who wants to have a posh vaccine passport can get one easily and at no cost, so as a class marker it's really rather subversive. Posh clothes cost real money, a posh accent is difficult to fake, a posh vaccine passport is neither.
The columnist doesn't like the income gap, and protests against the least reliable, most easily subverted signifier?