> Vaccine passports are essentially pointless and possibly dangerous if they give a false sense of security. Only asymptomatic, more infectious people will be a

> Vaccine passports are essentially pointless and possibly dangerous if they give a false sense of security. Only asymptomatic, more infectious people will be allowed in. Counterargument; mixing of vaccinated and unvaccinated populations is precisely what gives the "training" to the virus variants. Herd immunity works if the duration of the mixture of these herds is minimized. You can achieve that with distance or high and fast vaccine rollout, neither of which happened. The mistake was opening up too much, too soon, and mixing up too much. We've been focusing on protection "right now" at the expense of protection over time. I think focusing on personal protection is also a non-scaling approach; I get that it might motivate the rollout but ultimately personal immunity, unless it comes from having survived the real deal, is also a perishable state both from slow decay of vaccine immunity and constant training of variants perspective. None of these countermeasures make popular policies, so it is less about saving face and more about optimizing re-electibility.