Move over France: Italy makes health pass mandatory for many leisure activities

[PA Democrat]

ROME — Italy on Thursday significantly ramped up pressure on its unvaccinated population, announcing that a digital or printed health pass would be necessary for accessing a range of everyday leisure activities, from theaters to indoor dining.

The decision puts Italy in a rare category along with France among Western nations that have been willing to leverage certain freedoms and equalities now that vaccines have become widely available. Italy is essentially betting that it can revive its slowing vaccination campaign — and avoid future, onerous restrictions — by creating heavy incentives for inoculation, in the kind of step that would be politically unthinkable in the United States.

Though technically the pass can be obtained with proof of antibodies or from a recent negative coronavirus test, those paths are far less straightforward than getting vaccinated. And in an evening news conference, Italian Prime Minister Mario Draghi made clear that his goal was to encourage vaccinations, which have flagged over the last month.


“I invite all Italians to get vaccinated and do it immediately,” Draghi said. Avoiding vaccination, he said, “is an appeal to die.”

https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/italy-vaccination-pass-mandatory/2021/07/22/5248e2ac-eb20-11eb-a2ba-3be31d349258_story.html

[roamer65]

1. Good job, PM Draghi.

[StarryNite]

2. Excellent!

[SoCalDavidS]

3. Don't Dare Speak About The Passport Here

Vaccine Passport?

We can't even do a Mask RECOMMENDATION.

[MontanaMama]

4. Yes!!

I wish the US would do this. Oh…but our freedumbs……