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Re:IRS Will Soon Require Selfies for Online Access by theandrewbailey on Wednesday January 19, 2022 @02:51PM (#29999054)
Excuse me, can I see your vaccine card so you can enter this store/restaurant/theater/polling place/etc.?

Minorities, Blacks in particular, have lower vaccination rates than whites. Ever heard of the Tuskegee experiment? Who can blame them? Given vaccine rates by demographic, it seems like many places are hell bent on introducing racist vaccine passport policies. I thought we weren't supposed to do stuff like that anymore.

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Re:IRS Will Soon Require Selfies for Online Access by tastyfreeze on Wednesday January 19, 2022 @04:54PM (#30000788)
I dont agree with vaccine passports at all. But, if vaccine passports are required, minorities having a lower vaccination rate by choice does not make vaccine passports racist. Enough with the disparate impact BS when the policy is the same for all people across the board.

The only thing that vaccine passport requirements are discriminating against are unvaccinated people. Skin color has nothing to do with it.

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