HACKER Q&A
📣 whitepaint

Do you agree with Covid passports?


Do you agree with Covid passports?


  👤 slater Accepted Answer ✓
As a hotel manager: Absolutely. It's absolutely necessary to ensure the safety of everyone else.

Edit, to add:

The alternative is a hotel full of anti-mask / "COVID isn't real" idiots, and ... well, nope.

Not even going to entertain those folks, and will gladly eat the commission and relocation costs.


👤 gpax23
Not at all! It sets a dangerous precedent. Today it is supposed immunity to an over-hyped malady, tomorrow you have to prove you've had proper training in diversity and/or some sort of societal compliance.

👤 baash05
Nope. If you watch the latest rounds of Fauci, he is still recommending masks to people who have had the jab, and in fact to people who have had Covid and recovered. If he believes you can still transmit after these, then I'm going to side with him. To those who would argue its political pandering. Which party? He's advised 7 presidents, and was put in his role by Reagan.

Given you are still a carrier (according to Fauci), what would the passport server?


👤 akagusu
The immediate effect of such measure is the increase of people's mobility and the consequential economic boost. The side effect is the increase of segregation and inequality. Of course, people whose benefit from a covid passport don't care about this, because segregation and inequality don't affect them. The real question is if you agree or not with making poor people more miserable than they already are just to feel like it's already "normal" again.

👤 alexmingoia
There’s already an International standard vaccination card (WHO yellow card), and some countries require proof of various vaccines to enter. I have one.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_Certificate_of...

This isn’t new to SARS-CoV-2.


👤 carmen_sandiego
From a totally personal/non-policy perspective:

On one hand, I feel I might be selfish for supporting something that’s obviously in my interest given I’m vaccinated. And hey, if I’m vaccinated, I shouldn’t be so worried about being in a room with people who aren’t, right?

But then I consider the anti-vaccination crowd are perfectly happy to let me take on all the risks of what they think is dangerous/bad/whatever, so why shouldn’t I also reap the rewards?

Though I do feel bad about those who can’t be vaccinated for medical reasons caught up in the middle.

Ultimately I suppose on balance I would let businesses decide, and maybe have the government grant them some kind of immunity for it.


👤 el_dev_hell
Agree with? No.

But I don't have a better alternative for many applications, so I'm onboard just based on that fact.


👤 riffraff
I do, the alternative being worse. You have always been requested proof of vaccination for some things like traveling or certain jobs.

Sure, there is some space for distopian hypothesis, but I do no believe them to be realistic issues.

My only complaint is how the EU decided to call them "green". That's the most absurdist greenwashing I have ever seen.


👤 pcdoodle
No.

👤 fhifjfhjjjk
No, especially since the news has been blasted all over the internet in the last 10 minutes.

Will happily support underground businesses run by real humans instead.