Coronavirus - Part Two.

[petemcewan 27]

Thirsty Relic,

Spot on in your observations. I shall be following in your footsteps.

As you say,

 

"All "passports", "certificates", "apps"etc will do is fuel the criminal element as fakes are already available for the certificates that are used abroad, as well documented in the press. ".

 

The Gov,Commercial interests ,Spivs and Crooks will all join hands

and lead the merry enterprise of  Cov-19 vaccination passports-and we will be expected to grin and bear it.

Edited February 25, 2021 by petemcewan

[MuteWitness 10]

With covid vaccinations where would it stop, medical insurance companies have wanted medical history to be shared for decades.

[petemcewan 27]

Mutewitness

Don't even think of becoming a Plumber without your vaccination certificate.

Pimlico Plumbers (South London firm ) intends to insist 

that its employees are vaccinated before they are sent out on a job.Presumably the client will be able to insist on seeing the certificate before letting them in.

And on we go into ,"No vaccination. No job".

Note: I'm not an anti-vaxer. But I'm anti compulsory

vaxer.

And where am I coming from on this issue ?

The answer is the following. I object to people being subjected to medical procedures without first having them consent. And if they don't consent ,subjecting them to discrimination.

Edited February 26, 2021 by petemcewan

[enntee 10]

12 minutes ago, petemcewan said:

Mutewitness

Don't even think of becoming a Plumber without your vaccination certificate.

Pimlico Plumbers (South London firm ) intends to insist 

that its employees are vaccinated before they are sent out on a job.Presumably the client will be able to insist on seeing the certificate before letting them in.

And on we go into ,"No vaccination. No job".

Note: I'm not an anti-vaxer. But I'm anti compulsory

vaxer.

Nearly correct ... PP plan for all new contracts/employment to require vaccination.

Existing employees will be encouraged but not obligated to get jabbed.

I think that I read somewhere that he doesn't have any refusers in his current team.

[Annie Bynnol 612]

2 hours ago, petemcewan said:

Mutewitness

Don't even think of becoming a Plumber without your vaccination certificate.

Pimlico Plumbers (South London firm ) intends to insist 

that its employees are vaccinated before they are sent out on a job.Presumably the client will be able to insist on seeing the certificate before letting them in.

And on we go into ,"No vaccination. No job".

Note: I'm not an anti-vaxer. But I'm anti compulsory

vaxer.

And where am I coming from on this issue ?

The answer is the following. I object to people being subjected to medical procedures without first having them consent. And if they don't consent ,subjecting them to discrimination.

There are very few people who can demand access to my home and they would be informed of my vaccination status.

Therefore everyone else is by invitation.

I will ask and trust individuals I know to tell me if they have been vaccinated.

I would not contract work with individuals or companies if they could not establish that they have completed their vaccination course.

If someone cannot establish this then someone else will get the job.

This protects them from getting the Corovirus from me, my family or recent visitors.

 

I would not want it on my conscience that somebody who visits or needs to work in my house contracted the virus here.

Similarly if a shop, bus, pub, train, hotel etc. refused entry to protect their workers and other customers that would be normal.

The are some who cannot have vaccinations on medical grounds and society must tolerate the very minor risk posed-which is nothing like the risk posed to this group by those more fortunate. 

 

Ask not what you can do, do what you should do to protect everybody else.

 

[Cyclecar 24]

Some form of certificate/passport/proof of inoculation is inevitable. Given that some countries, or some airlines, or some face-to-face jobs will require one, you may as well have one in your "back pocket". 

 

If I had a job which involved crossing Africa, I would have to show proof of vaccination against various fevers and poxes before I was allowed through borders. No ifs, no buts, no ranting on social media or a talkshow, I wouldn't get in. And it's been like that for decades. 

 

So the question is - what form should the proof take, when should it be rolled out, what will it cost? If some individuals don't want to carry one they will have to accept their self-imposed restrictions.  

 

Without tantrums.  

[petemcewan 27]

Cyclecar.

Your last paragraph is spot on.

The rest  you describe, I'm aware of.

 

However,as we have been warned.Vaccine passports for Cov-19  will give rise to, a new digital health surveillance infrastructure (that endangers privacy rights) and create vaccine holder elites.

And once your medical history is out in the ether. Every ,Tom,Dick  and Mary will be able to get it.

Restriction on travel will not be an individual choice. It will be imposed on you-by all kinds of agencies.

 

The Lancet does a good job at highlighting the social issues involved.

 

https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6736(20)31034-5/fulltext

Edited February 26, 2021 by petemcewan

[enntee 10]

19 minutes ago, petemcewan said:

Cyclecar.

Your last paragraph is spot on.

The rest  you describe, I'm aware of.

 

However,as we have been warned.Vaccine passports for Cov-19  will give rise to, a new digital health surveillance infrastructure (that endangers privacy rights) and create vaccine holder elites.

And once your medical history is out in the ether. Every ,Tom,Dick  and Mary will be able to get it.

Restriction on travel will not be an individual choice. It will be imposed on you-by all kinds of agencies.

 

The Lancet does a good job at highlighting the social issues involved.

 

https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6736(20)31034-5/fulltext

Restriction on travel has been in place in the UK for some time ..... and has been ignored by many.

 

The Lancet article does raise some of the social issues with "passports", but it should be clear that the article was written in May last year and is referring to "immunity" passports prior to vaccines having been developed.

 

Also, where you claim that things "will give rise to" and "will be able to", you should really be using the word "may" instead of "will".

 

I also think that the majority do not understand that a vaccine "passport" cannot guarantee (at the moment) that the holder will not infect others.

It can, however,  be used as an incentive to maximise vaccine uptake, and I suspect that Mr Pimlico may have that in mind.

Edited February 26, 2021 by enntee

[nightrider 13]

1 hour ago, petemcewan said:

Cyclecar.

Your last paragraph is spot on.

The rest  you describe, I'm aware of.

 

However,as we have been warned.Vaccine passports for Cov-19  will give rise to, a new digital health surveillance infrastructure (that endangers privacy rights) and create vaccine holder elites.

And once your medical history is out in the ether. Every ,Tom,Dick  and Mary will be able to get it.

Restriction on travel will not be an individual choice. It will be imposed on you-by all kinds of agencies.

 

The Lancet does a good job at highlighting the social issues involved.

 

https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6736(20)31034-5/fulltext

so why not use the tried, trusted and tested method in use for decades for yellow fever? No need for any fancy digital system.

[tinfoilhat 11]

2 hours ago, enntee said:

Restriction on travel has been in place in the UK for some time ..... and has been ignored by many.

 

The Lancet article does raise some of the social issues with "passports", but it should be clear that the article was written in May last year and is referring to "immunity" passports prior to vaccines having been developed.

 

Also, where you claim that things "will give rise to" and "will be able to", you should really be using the word "may" instead of "will".

 

I also think that the majority do not understand that a vaccine "passport" cannot guarantee (at the moment) that the holder will not infect others.

It can, however,  be used as an incentive to maximise vaccine uptake, and I suspect that Mr Pimlico may have that in mind.

I remember when certain posters claimed that wearing of masks would (not might) result in more crime as the crims wouldn't be identified.

[L00b 441]

4 hours ago, Cyclecar said:

So the question is - what form should the proof take, when should it be rolled out, what will it cost? If some individuals don't want to carry one they will have to accept their self-imposed restrictions.  

 

Without tantrums.  

The same form as provided to EU27 residents in the UK to prove their settled status: a line entry in a government database.

 

Sauce, goose, gander,  etc.

[altus 540]

1 hour ago, nightrider said:

so why not use the tried, trusted and tested method in use for decades for yellow fever? No need for any fancy digital system.

What, and miss the increased opportunity for extra surveillance of people?

 

The government are talking about adding vaccine certificate functionality to the NHS track and trace app. Given the original NHS track and trace app's privacy failings were a big part of the public rejecting it, I think linking vaccine certificates with other functionality is likely to have the same result.

 

Any vaccine certificate solution should be entirely stand alone. It shouldn't be usable to tell track where people have been, who they've been in contact with or anything else of the sort. Just verify whether they've been vaccinated or not.