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The Constitution Requires the U.S. to Offer Vaccine Passports
- yosito 5y agoAs an American living in a country where vaccine passports are being used, but not available (yet) to foreigners (apparently due to existing systems needing to be upgraded to handle creating ID documents for non-citizens), I'm experiencing first-hand the dark side of vaccine passports. Citizens have access to everything, and non-citizens (even being here legally) do not. I know vaccines are available to everyone in the US, regardless of citizenship or not. But there are quite a few people who may still have difficulty or be unable to get a vaccine and/or vaccine passport due to their citizenship status. Any use of a vaccine passport system should address these inequalities before being enforced, but there are many conceivable reasons why that probably won't happen. And while the pandemic should be virtually over in the US in a matter of months, vaccine passports would probably stick around for a lot longer than that, exacerbating inequalities that do not need to be exacerbated. Quite frankly, there are many "less restrictive ways" to encourage vaccine acceptance and end the pandemic without vaccine passports. You don't have to be conservative to see think that arguments that we need to keep stripping away Americans' rights, despite rapidly decreasing cases and deaths, deserve criticism.