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You're welcome, and thank you for bringing this forward.

About your fear of discrimination via vaccine passport.

If it it allowed to go the full distance, it is my belief that they could very well be used for these things: health care, education, in-store shopping (e.g., groceries), employment, travel, public transit, banking, and, physical contact with loved ones. In other words, almost every aspect of daily life.

This is no longer strictly speculation, given the following stories. Many of which I'm sure you've already seen. These cover almost all of the above categories. Here's the list I've been compiling (pulled from here, https://files.catbox.moe/m98v5y.pdf , which has since been updated):

  1. in Chile, a very elderly woman (100 years old) was denied entering a grocery store because she was not vaccinated,

  2. in the United States, at least one doctor has supposedly denied a 7 month pregnant woman from giving birth in the hospital if she doesn’t get vaccinated first,

  3. in Newfoundland, healthcare if being denied for people who are not vaccinated, negative COVID-19 tests are no longer sufficient (at least one major hospital has implemented this as of about a month ago),

  4. in both Hungary, and, in a small town of Alaska, unvaccinated people are banned from ALL in-store shopping,

  5. in Sweden, the government announced that vaccine passports will probably be required for shopping, eating out, travel, and meeting loved ones,

  6. in the UK, vaccine passports will be needed for international travel,

  7. in Canada, both Trudeau and one of his health ministers have said vaccine certificates for international travel are likely, and, Trudeau said Canada will be in lockstep with its allies on this

  8. in Israel, gyms, shopping malls, and hotels are only open to the fully vaccinated,

  9. in both Canada and The United States, at least one University have already announced that only vaccinated students and staff will be allowed to attend in-person classes,

  10. in New York City, proof of vaccination or a recent negative COVID-19 test is now needed for attending events and entering businesses,

  11. in Ontario, they announced digital ID's, which would be required for things like setting up new bank accounts. These could easily be amended to be the Ontario vaccine passports

  12. in Ontario, the Ministry Of Labour amended their employment laws (and later retracted this provision), to allow employers to suspend employees indefinitely if they refuse the vaccine,

  13. in Texas, a nurse was recently fired for refusing the vaccine, and,

  14. in the Caribbean island nation St. Vincent, unvaccinated people were denied boarding ships to flee a volcanic eruption (there's more nuance to this story, at the time, only ~10% of their population had been vaccinated, the rest could flee to the south end of the island to be safe ... still sets a bad precedent though)

3 years ago
1 score
Reason: Original

You're welcome, and thank you for bringing this forward.

About your fear of discrimination via vaccine passport.

If it it allowed to go the full distance, it is my belief that they could very well be used for these things: health care, education, in-store shopping (e.g., groceries), employment, travel, public transit, banking, and, physical contact with loved ones. In other words, almost every aspect of daily life.

This is no longer strictly speculation, given the following stories. Many of which I'm sure you've already seen. These cover almost all of the above categories. Here's the list I've been compiling:

  1. in Chile, a very elderly woman (100 years old) was denied entering a grocery store because she was not vaccinated,

  2. in the United States, at least one doctor has supposedly denied a 7 month pregnant woman from giving birth in the hospital if she doesn’t get vaccinated first,

  3. in Newfoundland, healthcare if being denied for people who are not vaccinated, negative COVID-19 tests are no longer sufficient (at least one major hospital has implemented this as of about a month ago),

  4. in both Hungary, and, in a small town of Alaska, unvaccinated people are banned from ALL in-store shopping,

  5. in Sweden, the government announced that vaccine passports will probably be required for shopping, eating out, travel, and meeting loved ones,

  6. in the UK, vaccine passports will be needed for international travel,

  7. in Canada, both Trudeau and one of his health ministers have said vaccine certificates for international travel are likely, and, Trudeau said Canada will be in lockstep with its allies on this

  8. in Israel, gyms, shopping malls, and hotels are only open to the fully vaccinated,

  9. in both Canada and The United States, at least one University have already announced that only vaccinated students and staff will be allowed to attend in-person classes,

  10. in New York City, proof of vaccination or a recent negative COVID-19 test is now needed for attending events and entering businesses,

  11. in Ontario, they announced digital ID's, which would be required for things like setting up new bank accounts. These could easily be amended to be the Ontario vaccine passports

  12. in Ontario, the Ministry Of Labour amended their employment laws (and later retracted this provision), to allow employers to suspend employees indefinitely if they refuse the vaccine,

  13. in Texas, a nurse was recently fired for refusing the vaccine, and,

  14. in the Caribbean island nation St. Vincent, unvaccinated people were denied boarding ships to flee a volcanic eruption (there's more nuance to this story, at the time, only ~10% of their population had been vaccinated, the rest could flee to the south end of the island to be safe ... still sets a bad precedent though)

3 years ago
1 score