Why doesn’t natural immunity count in the US?

Re:Why doesn’t natural immunity count in the US? by collegeburner on Tuesday September 14, 2021 @02:49PM (#28529168)

Yes, places like NYC are creating a system of getting entry to many places only if you present government authorization. Then they can start adding more conditions to that authorization. Maybe a red state later adds not being a felon or a blue state adds not being on some red flag list. After all, you can still eat, so it's okay. They represent systems for excluding certain classes of people from society.

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Re:Why doesn’t natural immunity count in the US? by colpabar on Tuesday September 14, 2021 @03:21PM (#28529678)

I'm extremely interested to see whether voting locations will start requiring proof of vaccination.

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Re:Why doesn’t natural immunity count in the US? by wolfgang42 on Tuesday September 14, 2021 @05:04PM (#28531192)

I'm serving as a poll worker in SF today. There's a section in our manual (page 65, there's a PDF online somewhere) about what to do if a voter is not wearing a facial covering, the TLDR of which is to politely offer them a mask or curbside voting, and then let them vote regardless. We are a long way off from requiring vaccination.

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Re:Why doesn’t natural immunity count in the US? by quartesixte on Tuesday September 14, 2021 @04:39PM (#28530759)

Someone might have already tried to implement this un-ironically — only a matter of when probably.

That SCOTUS case would be quite interesting to watch.

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Re:Why doesn’t natural immunity count in the US? by nanis on Tuesday September 14, 2021 @05:19PM (#28531433)

I would be interested in seeing if NYC will require the same proof of identity for voting that they do for their vax pass.

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Re:Why doesn’t natural immunity count in the US? by bigcorp-slave on Tuesday September 14, 2021 @04:44PM (#28530842)

Yeah, it’s really horrible when I have to show my age passport to get served a beer, too.

Edit: moreover, the party that wants fewer restrictions on voting is the same as the party that wants people to get vaccinated. And the party that is desperately trying to stop as many people from voting as possible is also very pro-disease. So this seems like a pretty unlikely scenario.

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Re:Why doesn’t natural immunity count in the US? by betwixthewires on Tuesday September 14, 2021 @05:11PM (#28531304)

You kid, but that's a violation of your privacy as well and shouldn't exist.

That change in the US at least was also very contentious when it occurred, and subsequently every time the legal age was changed.

But say we decide that that is OK, which it appears most people have, they're still not really comparable because one is based on the assumption that you're too young to get inebriated responsibly, whereas this is proof you've had a medical procedure performed on your body. I'm sure you can see the glaring difference, one is significantly more extreme and invasive than the other.

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