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Originally Posted by tweetiepooh
I hope they don't work towards a digital "passport", that would be very expensive giving people some sort of device instead of a card, I don't have a phone so they can't use that and discriminating against those with out phones is discrimination.
Can't see point of a vaccine passport anyway, if you are vaccinated fine, if you can't have the vaccine they can't discriminate against you. It's thought that by April those in the groups that have made up 99% of the fatalities due to Covid will have had at least one dose of vaccine so by then it should be "safe" just to go about with more freedom. Those at risk who can't have the vaccine likely will not want to mix too much.
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Employers routinely discriminate against those who refuse certain vaccinations where they are relevant, as do plenty of countries at their borders. Whether the UK develops a full-on vaccine passport or not, the principle that people may be barred from doing certain things if they refuse to be vaccinated (or even if they can’t be) is well established, and objecting merely on the premise that it’s discrimination won’t fly.
Discrimination is something everybody does, every day. I think we forget that it is not a criminal or immoral act in itself just because campaigning types prefer to use it pejoratively. Discrimination against someone who doesn’t have a phone is not, for example, illegal in itself.