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Friends in Budapest tell me it’s getting better, but they recently opened up outdoor drinking venues for the first time since November and everything was packed

by biztos 6y ago

Friends in Budapest tell me it’s getting better, but they recently opened up outdoor drinking venues for the first time since November and everything was packed, no distancing and no masks, so I hope it doesn’t backfire. Interestingly, Hungary already has vaccine passports. Not sure if they’re used for anything but I’ve seen them, same size/shape as the national ID card, and chipped. A lot of my friends got Sputnik instead of AZ, they were offered a choice.

pas 6y ago
There's no chip. https://www.google.com/search?q=v%C3%A9detts%C3%A9gi+igazolv%C3%A1ny&tbm=isch https://www.google.com/search?q=v%C3%A9detts%C3%A9gi+igazolv... It allows people to go to bathhouses for example. Also it grants exemption from quarantine and PCR testing upon (re)entry to the country.
- biztos 6y ago
  Thanks, I stand corrected. Guess it’s chipless to be cheaper?
  - pas 6y ago
    No idea! What would a chip do? How could people use the chip? Verify it? Then why not just make an app!? (Oh, one was announced in February, but absolutely no signal about it since.) Corruption and competence rarely go hand in hand. The whole plastic card thing is a shitshow. I got the shot at the same time as a friend. Same day, same hospital, same vaccine type. Said friend already got the card days ago, no word about whether I should have gotten one or what's going on. No way to ask it either. Only thing folks can do is send an official application for requesting the card, which in theory is completely redundant. But it costs nothing, so I sent one. (It's just a nice form on yet another gov site.)
    - biztos 5y ago
      I guess in the US they get a paper card with a CDC logo on it and a stamp for each injection, which will be trivially easy to fake for those who want post-vaxx privileges without actually getting the jab. Saw one on Insta today. I’m in favor of a vaccine passport but I see a lot of chaos on the horizon as countries with high denialism (US, Germany) but also big outbound tourism and business travel, get real slacky about the passport-ness of it.
      - pas 5y ago
        Is that going to be a serious problem though? (Not that I endorse it at all.)

by biztos 6y ago

pas 6y ago

There's no chip. https://www.google.com/search?q=v%C3%A9detts%C3%A9gi+igazolv%C3%A1ny&tbm=isch https://www.google.com/search?q=v%C3%A9detts%C3%A9gi+igazolv... It allows people to go to bathhouses for example. Also it grants exemption from quarantine and PCR testing upon (re)entry to the country.

biztos 6y ago
Thanks, I stand corrected. Guess it’s chipless to be cheaper?
- pas 6y ago
  No idea! What would a chip do? How could people use the chip? Verify it? Then why not just make an app!? (Oh, one was announced in February, but absolutely no signal about it since.) Corruption and competence rarely go hand in hand. The whole plastic card thing is a shitshow. I got the shot at the same time as a friend. Same day, same hospital, same vaccine type. Said friend already got the card days ago, no word about whether I should have gotten one or what's going on. No way to ask it either. Only thing folks can do is send an official application for requesting the card, which in theory is completely redundant. But it costs nothing, so I sent one. (It's just a nice form on yet another gov site.)
  - biztos 5y ago
    I guess in the US they get a paper card with a CDC logo on it and a stamp for each injection, which will be trivially easy to fake for those who want post-vaxx privileges without actually getting the jab. Saw one on Insta today. I’m in favor of a vaccine passport but I see a lot of chaos on the horizon as countries with high denialism (US, Germany) but also big outbound tourism and business travel, get real slacky about the passport-ness of it.
    - pas 5y ago
      Is that going to be a serious problem though? (Not that I endorse it at all.)