White House faces calls to embrace vaccine passports

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Health experts are calling on the Biden administration to do more to encourage and promote the use of vaccine mandates and passports.

So far, the White House has stayed out of what they view as an issue for private employers.

The Biden administration has repeatedly said vaccine passports won't be implemented at the federal level but has not discouraged individual companies from making the personal choice of implementing one.

Officials have also shied away from using mandates among federal employees or among military forces.

"If a company, a business wants to take steps to keep their workers and their passengers safe, I would think that, from a government perspective, we want to do everything we can to encourage that," Secretary of Transportation Pete Buttigieg said recently.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/white-house-faces-calls-to-embrace-vaccine-passports/ar-AALtYzY

I hear right wing heads popping.

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1. I think the window of opportunity has passed for that

I had to go to a work dinner event last night.

Place was packed and not a mask in sight. There was nothing to indicate that a Pandemic had occurred.


It would take 6 months to a year (IMO) to put in place the framework for a new passport system which would of course include passing new laws.

I just don't think the political will of the public is there.

That could change if we have a re-surgence. But baring that, it's to late.

[SoCalDavidS]

2. Exactly! That Ship Sailed Months Ago

My friend told me last year how Live Nation was coming up with a vaccine passport system for attendance at shows, once they returned this year. I said, there's no way that's going to happen, because.....AMERICA!

Of course, I was right.

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3. Too late. Americans are finished with the pandemic.

[DFW]

4. Here in Germany

As of two weeks ago, if you presented proof of vaccination in the form of the orange-colored W.H.O. booklet with vaccination entries, you could get a document from a pharmacy that was an EU vaccination certificate. One guy even figured out how to store it via some app on his cell phone, but we're not as technically advanced as he is. SUPPOSEDLY, this document is accepted EU-wide. At any rate, when I flew down to Zürich last Thursday, instead of looking at my negative PCR test, the guy at the check-in counter checked my vaccination certificate instead. Switzerland is not in the EU, but Germany is, and I can imagine that Switzerland will follow the EU norms on this (presumably, Norway as well, though they also didn't join the EU).

Of course, when I arrived in Zürich, no one asked for any documents at all, despite warnings from the Swiss government's website that we needed to present this and that in order to be admitted.

I have to run down to France tomorrow, and they have been very strict of late. Every passenger on every train coming in from Germany or Belgium has to line up and present recent (72 hours or less) negative PCR test, and they check your ID to make sure the same name is on both. Inevitably, a few people try to sneak in with older tests or valid tests with other people's names on them. This holds up the whole crowd for ten or fifteen minutes per bad apple.