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The difference is that passports are only required for fairly rare activities (international travel, certain kinds of government interactions), whereas COVID pa
by Beltalowda 5y ago
The difference is that passports are only required for fairly rare activities (international travel, certain kinds of government interactions), whereas COVID passports are required for a lot of every-day things.
A driving license is a license is a certification that you've proven yourself capable to meet the minimum requirements to operate a potentially dangerous device, and more akin to doctor's license, lawyer license, etc. I don't think it's really the same thing.
My concern isn't really with "government can do $evil_stuff", but more in the general restriction of things.
- drcongo 5y agoThis doesn't address the rather hysterical slippery slope argument that was being espoused. That's the one that I've never has a sane answer to - anything the government might want to do in the future with a vaccine passport, they can already do now with the plethora of unique identifying information they have on you.