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FWIW, as recently as a week ago, the Canadian PM has said that there are no plans (in Canada) for a federal vaccine passport— it may still happen on a regional

FWIW, as recently as a week ago, the Canadian PM has said that there are no plans (in Canada) for a federal vaccine passport— it may still happen on a regional or industry-specific basis, or they could change their minds, but this is where they're starting from: “I think it’s an interesting idea but I think it is also fraught with challenges — we are certainly encouraging and motivating people to get vaccinated as quickly as possible but we always know there are people who won’t get vaccinated and not necessarily through a personal or political choice,” Trudeau said during an interview at the Reuters Next Conference. “There are medical reasons, there are a broad range of reasons why someone might not get vaccinated and I’m worried about creating knock-on, undesirable effects in our community.” https://globalnews.ca/news/7576955/coronavirus-vaccine-passports-canada-trudeau/ https://globalnews.ca/news/7576955/coronavirus-vaccine-passp...

BurningFrog 6y ago
"Passport" is too fancy a word, but we definitely need a way for vaccinated people to prove their status. The honor system will not work!
- netsharc 6y ago
  It'll be interesting if private businesses start demanding vaccine proof (at the point when vaccines are widely available) or refuse service. I guess one solution would be to make such a refusal illegal..
- mikepurvis 6y ago
  It's effectively a passport, regardless of what you want to call it— it's a document which is government issued, gives you certain movement privileges, and probably needs to include a photo component and be difficult to forge.
  - midasuni 6y ago
    My yellow fever book would be easy enough to forge, but why would I want to go to a yellow fever country with a forged one?
    - mikepurvis 6y ago
      Vaccine passports for COVID are a pretty different situation. It's not "get this established and well-tested vaccine so that you can go on a safari adventure in Africa," it's "get this very new vaccine that you might have read horrible conspiracies about on the internet so that you can go back to eating at restaurants and attending sporting events." The incentive to forge proof of a COVID vaccine is way higher, and in some jurisdictions there may even be political and/or media cover for doing so (because it's about your "freedom").
  - BurningFrog 6y ago
    It doesn't have to be issued by a government. Whatever institution performed the vaccination could do it. Of course, if you want it to be forge proof, there are some non trivial issues.

BurningFrog 6y ago

"Passport" is too fancy a word, but we definitely need a way for vaccinated people to prove their status. The honor system will not work!

netsharc 6y ago
It'll be interesting if private businesses start demanding vaccine proof (at the point when vaccines are widely available) or refuse service. I guess one solution would be to make such a refusal illegal..
mikepurvis 6y ago
It's effectively a passport, regardless of what you want to call it— it's a document which is government issued, gives you certain movement privileges, and probably needs to include a photo component and be difficult to forge.
- midasuni 6y ago
  My yellow fever book would be easy enough to forge, but why would I want to go to a yellow fever country with a forged one?
  - mikepurvis 6y ago
    Vaccine passports for COVID are a pretty different situation. It's not "get this established and well-tested vaccine so that you can go on a safari adventure in Africa," it's "get this very new vaccine that you might have read horrible conspiracies about on the internet so that you can go back to eating at restaurants and attending sporting events." The incentive to forge proof of a COVID vaccine is way higher, and in some jurisdictions there may even be political and/or media cover for doing so (because it's about your "freedom").
- BurningFrog 6y ago
  It doesn't have to be issued by a government. Whatever institution performed the vaccination could do it. Of course, if you want it to be forge proof, there are some non trivial issues.