> if you have a documented recovery from infection, you are also granted an immunity card ... I don't know how many other countries are using this approach.

I think most European countries do. I know for certain that the UK does[1] as well as Germany[2] and Austria[3].

[1] https://www.nhs.uk/conditions/coronavirus-covid-19/covid-pas... [2] https://www.baden-wuerttemberg.de/en/service/aktuelle-infos-... [3] https://gruenerpass.gv.at/genesen/

Yeah, medical treatment of an individual against their will is problematic for sure, even if it is to protect themselves.

But I see no problem with mandating vaccination or some other, equally strong, way of reducing transmission risk for participation in public events. In this case the individual is given a choice in how they help protect others.

Some people call also the second instance "mandatory vaccination" and object to it on the basis of body autonomy, which honestly doesn't make much sense since the discussion is about how the right to participate can be restricted. And "you are more likely than others to make everyone else sick" is a pretty legitimate reason to restricts someone's right to attend.

The whole pushback and anger caused is the wholly illogical singular condition of being vaccinated vs. being COVID recovered or even better option - even safer than vaccination is recent negative COVID test result - which would catch if vaccinated or unvaccinated had COVID and were likely to spread it. It's this nonsense that's rightfully instilling fear in people, and at least in Canada Justin Trudeau is pandering to and rallying an ideological mob by stirring up for unvaccinated - and keeping message very ideological without nuance or critical thinking to highlight such absurdities with a vaccine passport vs. doing a safer and more inclusive version say called a safety pass - which would 100% keep people safer.

I think letting people decide for themselves is the better and easier option. Bureaucracy isn't needed.

Since the vaccination doesn't help against spread, the argument is not true in my opinion.

> Since the vaccination doesn't help against spread, the argument is not true in my opinion.

Can you provide a source for this statement? As far as I know, even though not 100% effective against infections and virus shedding, the vaccines do help against spread so I'd like to know if I'm misinformed.