The Dawn of Vaccine Passports By Brian Simpson
Here is an update on the vaccine passport issue from Their ABC. We can see how the lockdowns will lead to people getting vaccine passports, even falling over themselves once they have suffered enough. Really, as Mike Adams said in a post a few weeks back, it is no longer about saving the great bulk of the population. Save one’s family and oneself, especially if the Great Die-off is on the cards.
“Lockdowns, border closures, mass event cancellations. School holidays are beginning again in many parts of Australia, but holidaymakers and the tourism industry have been struggling with restrictions on movement since the pandemic began.
Key points:
- People in the EU who are fully vaccinated can enjoy quarantine-free travel using 'vaccine passports'
- Inoculated Australians have a similar digital certificate on their phones, but it has no rights attached to it
- Vaccine passports could be used to give states more confidence to keep borders open
From next week, however, 14 countries in the European Union will open quarantine-free travel to people who are fully immunised against COVID-19, something they will prove using a digital "vaccine passport".
Australians who are inoculated have a similar certificate on their smartphone. And they could be the way out of the chaos of the past 15 months.
"This stop/start, open/close, the rolling lockdowns, the reverberations off the back of lockdown — you really can't plan," Victoria Tourism Industry Council (VTIC) chief executive Felicia Mariani said.
"You actually have no idea what's going to happen from one week to the next."
Vaccine passport
Tourism Minister Dan Tehan wants to give vaccine passport holders the freedom to avoid lockdowns.
"Ultimately, that certificate, initially, could give people the right to be able to travel across borders when there are lockdowns, or if there are parts of a state which have been locked down, because of an outbreak," he said.
"If you had the double vaccine, then that certificate would enable you to be able to travel and not have to be locked down or not be able to cross borders. And ideally, that's a situation we'd be able to get to in Australia."
The government's COVID-19 digital certificate shows the inoculations you have had to protect against the virus, as recorded on the Australian Immunisation Register. It is available on smartphones on the Express Plus Medicare app.
The Tourism Minister said giving more freedoms to people who were vaccinated would be an incentive for people to get the jab.
"Obviously, there's a very good incentive — you don't want to get sick," he said.
"But as another further incentive, enabling people to be able to move freely, initially, within our own country — and then potentially once we open up, to be able to move more freely overseas — I think is another very good incentive as to why Australians should want to get vaccinated."
Certainty of uncertainty
Tourism operators are among those desperate for the increased certainty that a vaccine passport could give holiday-makers and state governments weighing up restrictions on travellers.
In Cairns, marine tourism business owner Nikki Giumelli is desperate to see some certainty injected into the region's economy.
"I think it would have the framework for business — and then for the consumers — to have some confidence that this is the way forward and that their plans, you know, particularly if they're vaccinated, mean that they've got a certain level of certainty in what they're organising as well," she said.”
I suppose this all assumes that the vaccinated would not carry the disease and pass on the infection. I assume that has been adequately scientifically tested, just like the vaccines?
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