The New York one explicitly states that the passport is "optional" and that a vaccine card is sufficient. Maybe they try to change that at some point, but I suspect that given the clusterfuck that vaccine logistics were in the early days that some people who were vaccinated back in December and January won't show up in computer systems to be able to get a passport.
I've seen several things which require a QR coof pass, the New York venues and the LA school district.
Not everyone has a smart phone, so does the government plan to require all Americans carry a smart phone [tracking device] too?
I don't actually think that will go over well.
They will have to pry my flip phone from my cold dead hands.
The Bundy standoff was in 2014. The Battle of Athens in 1946.
The New York one explicitly states that the passport is "optional" and that a vaccine card is sufficient. Maybe they try to change that at some point, but I suspect that given the clusterfuck that vaccine logistics were in the early days that some people who were vaccinated back in December and January won't show up in computer systems to be able to get a passport.
They will most likely demand those people be vaccinated again.
These passports are about enforcing tracking and control.
This is not about a virus that only kills less than 1 percent of those who are infected.
These are government apps probably developed by Indians who exactly implemented poor requirements/specs from bureaucrats.
If there isn't a "vaccine passport barcode generator" web site within a month I will be very disappointed.
You are underestimating this threat heavily.
I would bet that they have been working on these vaccine passports even BEFORE they had the Wuhan lab release the Chinavirus.
I don't expect incompetence here to be the saving grace.
Vaccine passports are only good for 90 days (yes, really), so December and (soon) January people would be expired anyway.
Leave it to the government to make a bad idea somehow even worse, so people would get to go and sit through government beauracracy every 3 months
I have lost respect for most people this past year for this reason alone.