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Good rhetoric, but the actually correct verb is "show", "display" or something. The income gap was there already, all the vaccine passport does is show it, and

by Arnt 5y ago

Good rhetoric, but the actually correct verb is "show", "display" or something. The income gap was there already, all the vaccine passport does is show it, and even in a manner that's easily subverted. Anyone who wants to have a posh vaccine passport can get one easily and at no cost, so as a class marker it's really rather subversive. Posh clothes cost real money, a posh accent is difficult to fake, a posh vaccine passport is neither. The columnist doesn't like the income gap, and protests against the least reliable, most easily subverted signifier?

mandmandam 5y ago
More fact than rhetoric. > The income gap was there already, all the vaccine passport does is show it No, it also strengthens it; both in opportunity and the collective culture. > Anyone who wants to have a posh vaccine passport can get one easily and at no cost A, you're wrong; there are many people who can't get vaccinated for various reasons; myocarditis, clots, GBS, CFS, etc.; and B, you're missing the point. Poorer people and minorities have many good reasons, historical and current, to distrust governments and pharma companies. You say posh four times - it's not about being posh when 80+ % of the population has it. >The columnist doesn't like the income gap, and protests against the least reliable, most easily subverted signifier? Again, you are wide of the mark by a considerable margin. For people who have decided - for reasons you consider valid or otherwise - that they are not going to take this particular vaccine, a vaccine passport is not actually easy to get.
- Arnt 5y ago
  I heard from a friend at home (I'm an expat) that in the age groups where everyone has been offered a vaccine by now, the acceptance rate is between 95% and 98%. I'm happy and proud to come from a country where the "many people who can't vaccinated" are so few.

by Arnt 5y ago

mandmandam 5y ago

More fact than rhetoric. > The income gap was there already, all the vaccine passport does is show it No, it also strengthens it; both in opportunity and the collective culture. > Anyone who wants to have a posh vaccine passport can get one easily and at no cost A, you're wrong; there are many people who can't get vaccinated for various reasons; myocarditis, clots, GBS, CFS, etc.; and B, you're missing the point. Poorer people and minorities have many good reasons, historical and current, to distrust governments and pharma companies. You say posh four times - it's not about being posh when 80+ % of the population has it. >The columnist doesn't like the income gap, and protests against the least reliable, most easily subverted signifier? Again, you are wide of the mark by a considerable margin. For people who have decided - for reasons you consider valid or otherwise - that they are not going to take this particular vaccine, a vaccine passport is not actually easy to get.

Arnt 5y ago
I heard from a friend at home (I'm an expat) that in the age groups where everyone has been offered a vaccine by now, the acceptance rate is between 95% and 98%. I'm happy and proud to come from a country where the "many people who can't vaccinated" are so few.