Vax Passports

[garyhaupt]

This post is intended as a heads-up to those heading north in the next while. If it is used to to comment on your particular beliefs..it will get taken down. Please try to respect the intent to our fellow travellers.


Vaccine Passports coming to BC and Quebec.

https://www.castanet.net/news/Vernon/343713/Restaurants-react-to-provincial-mandate-that-patrons-wil...

https://globalnews.ca/news/8133780/bc-proof-vaccination-program/

Gary Haupt

[Lwiddis]

It’s your border Don. Do as you feel necessary to safeguard Canadians.

[noteven]

I carry a photo copy of my paper signed by the nurse at the clinic. I carry photo ID with matching name and address. A person who can read can look at me, compare the photo, look at the name and address, phone the clinic, track down the nurse, if they think I forged ze papers…

Do I care if someone looks at this info with their eyes and lets me in the hockey game? No I don’t care.

Do I care if government requires I produce a government issue card with a chip or stripe that some private sports venue runs through a scanner for my “verification”? As a matter of fact, yes I do.

[valhalla360]

noteven wrote:
So this is like when countries require visitors be vaccinated against diseases like yellow fever, only different right?

Very much so.

We've been to several countries that require yellow fever vaccine (and we have it)...yet, we've never been asked to prove it. I'm sure at one time, they did check but it's really on the honor system that you have it and didn't fake having it.

I expect for a year or two, countries will be certain to check for it...then as things settle down, it will remain on the books but more and more often, they will forget to check for it.

[pianotuna]

Canadians pretty much feel our numbers are too high. They are much lower than those south of the border. I'm not sure our border should be open to non essential traffic.

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[rlw999]

Sandia Man wrote:
I guess it would help but way too easy to make or acquire counterfeit cards as of now. My vaccination card from CDC is easily forged or copied since they have no discernable differences than regular copier paper, maybe a bit thicker which is easy to attain at any office supply store.

That's what people think, but the vaccination records can be confirmed by health department records, and it could be a very costly mistake. It's a generally a bad idea to provide forged documents to any government agency since you can face fines or jail or both.


This couple was fined $20,000CAD ($16,000USD) each:

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-58063647


For not taking a vaccine that would cost them $0. Not sure they really did the risk/reward calculation on this one.

[WNYBob]

NYS has its Excelsior Pass, but it is only good in NY.
If you got your vaccine in CVS Pharmacy they have a QR coded printable.

[wolfe10]

bob213,

Thanks for sharing my favorite Ayn Rand quote:

You can avoid reality, but you cannot avoid the consequences of avoiding reality – Ayn Rand

[joshuajim]

Some people think it affects their “Freedom”. Me, I think it’s FREEDUMB

[bob213]

Wow...One response and this thread was headed south. Some people just can't help themselves.

[Lwiddis]

Is everything a conspiracy? We’ve lost one family member to Covid. I don’t want to lose another.

[noteven]

So this is like when countries require visitors be vaccinated against diseases like yellow fever, only different right?

[NamMedevac_70]

I do not anticipate visiting Canada so no effect on me and our will be gone soon. Cheers to the ears.

[wapiticountry]

An incredibly slippery slope for something of dubious value. If what we are being told about vaccinations is correct, the primary threat is to the unvaccinated. In the US, vaccines are widely available and cost free. The only people over the age of 12 who are unvaccinated are that way by choice. So they have put themselves in harms way.
Furthermore, recent studies have tended to show that vaccinated people can carry and spread a viral load equal to the unvaccinated. That means that the threat a vaccinated person creates in spreading the virus is equal to that of the unvaccinated. Therefore, being vaccinated only benefits that individual, not others around them.

[Sandia_Man]

I guess it would help but way too easy to make or acquire counterfeit cards as of now. My vaccination card from CDC is easily forged or copied since they have no discernable differences than regular copier paper, maybe a bit thicker which is easy to attain at any office supply store.