Its a breach of free movement rights and indefensible according to our Attorney General Gerry.
The way it works here is via an app (e.g. via Alipay or WeChat) on my phone. It's hardly a hardship to open up your phone and show it (includes the dates and batch numbers for the two vaccinations). We have to do that here for many places inc. the metro, museums, some supermarkets etc. etc.Having to perpetually show your vaccine passport to get into night clubs? That's Black Mirror level stuff
Seriously who really gives a shit. They can spy on me all they like, I hope they like Granny porn (all I get at my age).It's one thing if you trusted them to just use these vaccine passports for now while they're "needed", and not abuse them later on. But in truth, it's another step on the slippery slope towards eating mealworm in our dank, underground dens and having computer chips implanted in our heads.
Yep. No Yellow Fever jab and you're not getting into many African countries (had to have a raft of vaccinations before I went to live in Nigeria).Other vaccines are a mandatory requirement to get into a bunch of countries, and always have been.
My daughter and partner both early 30's, both had Pfizer. I do believe they had a choice though.Don't know the overall figures, but if you're under 40 and/or pregnant you're already unlikely to be offered it.
Seriously who really gives a shit. They can spy on me all they like, I hope they like Granny porn (all I get at my age).
And that is because certain diseases aren't viable in many countries (e.g. Yellow Fever), if they were they'd also have mandatory vaccination.I wouldn't say pretty standard. There are more countries without it than with it.
It's not creating the variants if it doesn't stop infection then, the person would still get sick no matter if they are vaccinated or not...
That means that all vaccines need to be 100% effective or else they're useless.Only if it was 0% effective at stopping infection. If it is so much as 1% effective, then you're fucked. Not sure of the numbers but from the look on that idiotic professor's face when he boasted about the partial effectiveness, I'd say we're talking about 30%, so you're definitely fucked.
That means that all vaccines need to be 100% effective or else they're useless.
I actually like that idea.I would lockdown until there is a treatment. And I would pay for the lockdown by getting every country in the world together than owes china any money, and collectively ratify an agreement whereby they all say in unison "what money?", smoke a cigar, tell the ratings agencies to play along, and then start issuing new debt on a clean slate. It's the only way.
Seriously who really gives a shit. They can spy on me all they like, I hope they like Granny porn (all I get at my age).
Yeah it's definitely a case of I'm alright Jack. Eye-roll. Because with what will be around 10 billion people on this planet by around 2050 they'll surely be making life hell for one and all. Or maybe the positives will outweigh the negatives (lower crime, help in emergencies, easier access, communication, payments and booking). Definitely set limits but don't ignore the fact that the benefits of permitting limited access are clear too.Well, I care about my son and the shite that they're gonna have to put up with on a planet and within a society that's crumbling around them. But you'll be dead because you're old, so it's okay. It's this attitude of "meh, I'm alright Jack" that lets these absolute psychopaths push on with their sick agendas.
Yeah it's definitely a case of I'm alright Jack. Eye-roll. Because with what will be around 10 billion people on this planet by around 2050 they'll surely be making life hell for one and all. Or maybe the positives will outweigh the negatives (lower crime, help in emergencies, easier access, payments and booking). Definitely set limits but don't ignore the fact that the benefits of permitting limited access are clear too.
There have been conspiracy theorists around since the day the PC was invented and life surely hasn't deteriorated (well debatable for some) in any significant way for 99.99% despite our personal information being widely available and employed.
The issue with any new technology is how it is implemented, governed & accessed. And, despite there not being a politician on earth I'd trust, the fear of how new technology will be managed shouldn't mean it comes to a shuddering halt because of the potential for misuse by maladroit officials (or CEOs). It didn't with ID cards, TVs, mobile phones, passports or many other mediums carrying the potential for misconduct.It's not really how it works though unfortunately.
The issue lots of people have it, where does it stop.
The trust isn't there of governments worldwide, the recent Pegasus thing brings to light how these things can be so insidious and how quickly the slope become very slippery.
The issue with any new technology is how it is implemented, governed & accessed. And, despite there not being a politician on earth I'd trust, the fear of how new technology will be managed shouldn't mean it comes to a shuddering halt because of the potential for misuse by maladroit officials (or CEOs). It didn't with ID cards, TVs, mobile phones, passports or many other mediums carrying the potential for misconduct.
All have had an effect, generally positive (and I've listed some potentially positive benefits of this new tech above) though also naturally with some negatives, on society, however I personally see no reason to suspect the imminent arrival of '1984-like' controls.
There's not going to be 10 billion people on the planet by 2050.
There'll be a few dozen survivors, spread across the barren wasteland, desperately searching for others.
Hmmm... that's an idea. I already know how to do it and my father-in-law has the set up too...Not if I'm one of them. I'll peacefully make my moonshine and live happily ever after.
Well since it's already implemented in China that's a moot point. As for the rest of the world - don't own a smartphone. Oh you want a smartphone? Then you're in the system already. Choices eh.Well the obvious Uyghur population situation is one clear example, as we've discussed before.
The ease of showing ID for the 'right' people allows the potential for easily identifying the 'wrong' people.
With those examples it's similar for the majority, making life easy (including mine) on many situations doesn't take away it leads to life be shit or worse for lots of other people.
Well since it's already implemented in China that's a moot point. As for the rest of the world - don't own a smartphone. Oh you want a smartphone? Then you're in the system already. Choices eh.
The way it works here is via an app (e.g. via Alipay or WeChat) on my phone. It's hardly a hardship to open up your phone and show it (includes the dates and batch numbers for the two vaccinations). We have to do that here for many places inc. the metro, museums, some supermarkets etc. etc.
If you were near an area designated as having infections it changes from Green to Yellow (no travel or entry permitted) or Red (quarantine).