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Originally Posted by Trolly McTrollson
AFAICT, 100% of the vaccine passport stuff is private industry. The gov't is taking an entirely hands-off approach.
I think the administration has at alluded to an effort to consolidate various government agencies and their medical databases, and make this accessible.
I think this reasonably raises privacy concerns, and also the discussion of whether it is a good approach to begin with. To be clear I think calling it fascism is silly, but I'm still not a fan.
I can see the risk in creating an A team and B team, exacerbating already existing differences in access to healthcare. I also think national health efforts should be aimed at creating a reasonably risk level overall, not rely on medical checkpoints.
I also think it is an effort aimed at the wrong pressure point. We are at critical risk for more pandemics in the future. This is down to how we manufacture our food, how we cultivate the earth, how we reduce biodiversity, how we travel and how we live. I fear this will be another cushion to excuse not doing anything about it, just like we tend to push private pollution as an excuse not to pass necessary regulation at the macro-level.