Re:England vaccine passport plans ditched, health secretary ...
by joenot443 on Sunday September 12, 2021 @05:48PM
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>The main objections to vaccine passports in England aren't privacy, they're that it discriminates against those who refuse to get vaccinated.
Plenty of Canadians, like myself, have huge objections to the privacy implications of our passport program.
Re:England vaccine passport plans ditched, health secretary ...
by chii on Monday September 13, 2021 @12:08AM
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what is the privacy concern, other than the private info of whether you chose to get a vaccine or not?
Re:England vaccine passport plans ditched, health secretary ...
by TeeMassive on Monday September 13, 2021 @12:37AM
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The reason people do not want to show their immunization status in public is nobody's business. There is no need to justify concern in the first place. Medical information secrecy is a fundamental right protected by the Constitution in the US and the Charter of Rights in Canada and for very good reasons.
The main objections to vaccine passports in England aren't privacy, they're that it discriminates against those who refuse to get vaccinated.
>And you don't have to show your vaccine passport if you, um, never go outside again.
You'd have to show your vaccine passport if you want to partake in proportionately high risk activities where you not only have risk to yourself, but you also pose a risk to others. And it's [almost] always places you have to take ID anyway, to prove your age.
Why should those who chose to not do the socially responsible thing of getting vaccinated, get to amplify the risk to those who do?