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> Strategies that focus on the individual — using conceptions of ethics rooted in libertarianism — contradict the mission of public health. Immunity passport (
by stared 6y ago
> Strategies that focus on the individual — using conceptions of ethics rooted in libertarianism — contradict the mission of public health.
Immunity passport (or any other pandemic-prevention tools) focus on the population, not an individual. (It is not if you can or cannot get infected, it is if you are likely to infect others!)
I am disappointed by the populistic vibe of this article, endorsed by Nature. Sure, there are problems with the idea of the immunity passport. But the question is - what are the alternatives?
They gave much less scrutiny to the idea of a vaccine (that no-one knows if and when it is going to be available) and tracking (which works in Singapore, Taiwan and South Korea, but in other countries it fails miserably). They both suffer from many similar issues as the passport (tracking: regarding privacy, vaccine: access to less privileged groups, etc).
- SiempreViernes 6y agoUh, how is a personal document something that focus on the overall population? Population level solutions of this type would universally grant rights to (at least) entire blocks of a city.
- SpicyLemonZest 6y agoMaybe there's some confusion in terms about what "focus on the overall population" means, but a mandatory license to go about your business is surely not libertarian as the article suggests.
- stared 6y agoNot infecting the population? If we can make the whole population immune - it is the best. If there are some people immune - it makes no sense restricting their traveling rights if they are not increasing risk of infecting others.