Honestly, we should have had a national vaccine record 40 years ago. The current system is, and always has been idiotic.
Mommy gives birth and gets you all the basic shots. She gets a little handwritten record book with stamps from some clinic or other. You turn 12, do the rest of your shots, but the book is lost so you get a new handwritten record book.
By the time you are an adult, after university, mommy and daddy are divorced, mommy burned all the records. You go "Dad, where are my fucking childhood vac records?" "He says "I have no fucking clue, ask your mom."
So now you are 24, you have you new highfalutin job and you are sitting in the travel vac center a week before your plane-ride to bum fuck nowhere. "Where's your fucking book she says?" "Well, we'll just have to give you all of them all over again."
Pretty much a true story for me. I even managed to get the stupid book stolen as an adult and had to do them all over again. A proper registry would be the best thing since sliced bread. REGISTRY. And PRIVATE just like all your other health records.
Obviously, that is not what the forces of evil are trying to do, however.
There are practical public health mechanisms that are health based. And then there is COVID/Hitler bullshit. They are separate things.
I have flown around the planet with my vaccine booklet for decades. It has my internationally recognized Yellow Fever certificate in it. It has been required by half the countries on earth for decades.
Honestly, we should have had a national vaccine record 40 years ago. The current system is, and always has been idiotic.
Mommy gives birth and gets you all the basic shots. She gets a little handwritten record book with stamps from some clinic or other. You turn 12, do the rest of your shots, but the book is lost so you get a new handwritten record book.
By the time you are an adult, after university, mommy and daddy are divorced, mommy burned all the records. You go "Dad, where are my fucking childhood vac records?" "He says "I have no fucking clue, ask your mom."
So now you are 24, you have you new highfalutin job and you are sitting in the travel vac center a week before your plane-ride to bum fuck nowhere. "Where's your fucking book she says?" "Well, we'll just have to give you all of them all over again."
Pretty much a true story for me. I even managed to get the stupid book stolen as an adult and had to do them all over again. A proper registry would be the best thing since sliced bread. REGISTRY. And PRIVATE just like all your other health records.
Obviously, that is not what the forces of evil are trying to do, however.
Don't give me the muh Hitler bullshit.
There are practical public health mechanisms that are health based. And then there is COVID/Hitler bullshit. They are separate things.
I have flown around the planet with my vaccine booklet for decades. It has my internationally recognized Yellow Fever certificate in it. It has been required by half the countries on earth for decades.
I'm oil & gas. If you go to any of these places you need a Yellow Fever vaccine & certificate. They won't let you on the plane without one.
https://www.cdc.gov/yellowfever/maps/index.html
If you leave any of those those places you probably need one to transit through nearby countries to return home. It looks like this:
https://www.travelbughealth.com/sites/default/files/field/image/cert%20of%20vaccination_0.jpg
But lots of countries when you apply for work visas (not tourist) require proof of vaccination or will vaccinate you on the spot.