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and more so, its extremely hard to track peoples blood test. Adobe Acrobat can easily change anyones name on a piece of paper with a blood test result, there wo
by shmatt 5y ago
and more so, its extremely hard to track peoples blood test. Adobe Acrobat can easily change anyones name on a piece of paper with a blood test result, there wouldn't be a way to confirm this person has antibodies
In Israel a high antibody blood test gives you a "vaccine passport" for 6 months.
...to get that, you sign up for the blood test using your government ID # (SSN for the US), the government gets your results before you do, and the government issues you an encrypted barcode that can only be decrypted by a government built mobile app that restaurants or stadiums have. They scan it and compare to your own ID
Now, does anyone think the US can pull off getting peoples SSN , connect it to a blood test, send the SSN+result to the federal government and have them issue you a federal "antibody ID" which is directly connected to your SSN in a government database?
We could only wish
Americans are just really bad at these kinds of things. This is why we can't have nice things etc. etc. etc.
- jstanley 5y agoWhy is any of that easier with vaccination status than with antibody status?
- danans 5y agoIt's not the book-keeping that's the issue, it's the physical determination of status. For antibody status, you have to do an antibody test, which is strictly more complex/expensive than a COVID vaccine (it took 3 days when I got it done), so it's not viable at population scale. It's similar to the reason that monoclonal antibody therapy is not a scalable treatment for COVID infection - better to minimize the chance of needing such treatment by just getting vaccinated.
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- ars 5y ago> Adobe Acrobat can easily change anyones name on a piece of paper with a blood test result It's even easier to fake vaccination status. Blank COVID cards are widely available. Most of them are handwritten - and even when vaccinated, they give them to you blank, you fill in your own name at home. > Now, does anyone think the US can pull off getting peoples SSN , connect it to a blood test, send the SSN+result to the federal government and have them issue you a federal "antibody ID" which is directly connected to your SSN in a government database? > We could only wish No we don't. Americans are VERY against that kind of thing. Plus Social Security numbers are not supposed to be used as a national ID - that's not what they are for. Not to mention how would you even do that? A Social Security card is not ID - you can say whatever number you want when getting vaccinated, no one would know. > Americans are just really bad at these kinds of things. This is why we can't have nice things etc. etc. etc. No, Americans are not bad at that - rather they don't want that. Don't confuse the two.
- pessimizer 5y ago> It's even easier to fake vaccination status. Blank COVID cards are widely available. Most of them are handwritten - and even when vaccinated, they give them to you blank, you fill in your own name at home. That's absolutely true, because the government response has been disorganized and bullshit. It's also why vax passes won't work; because the records are probably trash. > No, Americans are not bad at that - rather they don't want that. Don't confuse the two. No, we're really shit at it. Everybody who has been vaccinated would love for the government to have kept track of it, and would love to be able to ask for or give an easy proof of it. In my personal experience, the unvaccinated are also liars. They would, of course, not want it to be tracked, because they would like to continue to lie.
- peteradio 5y agoThere are more unvaccinated truth tellers than unvaccinated liars according to the statistics.