Vaccine/Health Passports

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CrutyRammers

13,735 posts

199 months

Wednesday 24th February 2021
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Authoritarians make me sad. This strange willingness to accept restrictions on themselves, so they can see other people get punished. It's very odd.
Total happiness is just a few more rules away.

Nickgnome

8,277 posts

90 months

Wednesday 24th February 2021
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Electro1980 said:
No, the government are approving their exclusion and businesses implementing it. To exclude people from society in this way is unconscionable. This is hugely over reaching and utterly pointless. I don’t even see what the value is.
Nothing as yet has been approved unless you know different.

Please post the link if you have one.



Nickgnome

8,277 posts

90 months

Wednesday 24th February 2021
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CrutyRammers said:
Authoritarians make me sad. This strange willingness to accept restrictions on themselves, so they can see other people get punished. It's very odd.
Total happiness is just a few more rules away.
Happiness is when results exceed expectations, simple.

I do not see a vaccine passport as a restriction.

Where is the punishment?


Jasandjules

69,954 posts

230 months

Wednesday 24th February 2021
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Sophisticated Sarah said:
YouGov poll just gone up asking about health passports.

66% currently in favour.
Scary that 2/3rds of the population consider papier bitte to be even remotely acceptable. The indoctrination of the stupid has been a success.

scottyp123

3,881 posts

57 months

Wednesday 24th February 2021
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Iminquarantine said:
scottyp123 said:
Would you approve of me opening a shop and saying no muslims allowed?
Can’t do that. Religion is a protected characteristic. Being an anti vaxxer fruitcake is not a protected characteristic.
I didn't ask whether it was legal or not, he said that if you can change something and don't then you are excluding yourself, not someone excluding you. If I ban muslims then all they have to do is stop being a muslim if they want to enter, surely shouldn't be any sort of problem for nickgnome.

Nickgnome

8,277 posts

90 months

Wednesday 24th February 2021
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Jasandjules said:
Sophisticated Sarah said:
YouGov poll just gone up asking about health passports.

66% currently in favour.
Scary that 2/3rds of the population consider papier bitte to be even remotely acceptable. The indoctrination of the stupid has been a success.
Or maybe it's is the 33%

It is a matter of perspective.

MEC

2,604 posts

274 months

Wednesday 24th February 2021
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Jasandjules said:
Scary that 2/3rds of the population consider papier bitte to be even remotely acceptable. The indoctrination of the stupid has been a success.
And who owns YouGov??!!

anonymous-user

55 months

Wednesday 24th February 2021
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MEC said:
And who owns YouGov??!!
Pol Pot?

Jasandjules

69,954 posts

230 months

Wednesday 24th February 2021
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Nickgnome said:
It is all about choice.
Quite the reverse. Not sure how you are not bright enough to see that.

Nickgnome

8,277 posts

90 months

Wednesday 24th February 2021
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Jasandjules said:
Nickgnome said:
It is all about choice.
Quite the reverse. Not sure how you are not bright enough to see that.
So please explain why you say it the reverse.

Electro1980

8,319 posts

140 months

Wednesday 24th February 2021
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Nickgnome said:
Electro1980 said:
No, the government are approving their exclusion and businesses implementing it. To exclude people from society in this way is unconscionable. This is hugely over reaching and utterly pointless. I don’t even see what the value is.
Nothing as yet has been approved unless you know different.

Please post the link if you have one.
Oh good lord. Stop trying to play what you think are clever linguistic games and debate in good faith. You just look like a bit of a dick.

Electro1980

8,319 posts

140 months

Wednesday 24th February 2021
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Iminquarantine said:
scottyp123 said:
Would you approve of me opening a shop and saying no muslims allowed?
Can’t do that. Religion is a protected characteristic. Being an anti vaxxer fruitcake is not a protected characteristic.
I think you need to look again at the law. Religion or belief is a protected characteristic. Many of the arguments against vaccination could be considered a moral belief.

Nickgnome

8,277 posts

90 months

Wednesday 24th February 2021
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Electro1980 said:
Nickgnome said:
Electro1980 said:
No, the government are approving their exclusion and businesses implementing it. To exclude people from society in this way is unconscionable. This is hugely over reaching and utterly pointless. I don’t even see what the value is.
Nothing as yet has been approved unless you know different.

Please post the link if you have one.
Oh good lord. Stop trying to play what you think are clever linguistic games and debate in good faith. You just look like a bit of a dick.
You could try and put a coherent and accurate statement together then we may have something to debate.

If you choose not too I will not waste my time trying to interpret what you are trying to say.





Earthdweller

13,607 posts

127 months

Wednesday 24th February 2021
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Electro1980 said:
I think anti-vaxers are stupid, everyone who can should have the vaccine and anyone not is being incredibly selfish and I haven’t heard a single sensible argument not to have it, as you will see from my discussions on other threads...

BBBUUUUTTTT

I think vaccine “passports” and proof of vaccine status to do quite normal and basic things, against what will become a recurring, endemic illness, is a huge over reach, a massive abuse and a direct attack on basic human rights and liberties.
Agree

Graveworm

8,500 posts

72 months

Wednesday 24th February 2021
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Electro1980 said:
I think you need to look again at the law. Religion or belief is a protected characteristic. Many of the arguments against vaccination could be considered a moral belief.
Different meaning of belief. Or else how would this square with the several (Some arguably more liberal leaning than the UK) EU countries that already have compulsory vaccination, (Not just to access services etc) alongside freedom of religion and belief?
The UK government were consulting on mandatory vaccines in late 2019, before any of this kicked off. I am not in favour of the UK government making Covid vaccines compulsory, unless they can show a need. However I am not sure why the individual freedom to not have a vaccine is any greater than the individual freedom of a business to chose not to deal with people, who won't show they have been vaccinated, in an attempt to reduce the risks to it's employees and other customers.
Further, if they say we can open up some sectors earlier, if they start with the vaccinated, then I am having a hard time seeing the downside; the unvaccinated will be no worse off, than they would have been had the govt waited until the combined risk was acceptable.

scenario8

6,574 posts

180 months

Wednesday 24th February 2021
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Earthdweller said:
Electro1980 said:
I think anti-vaxers are stupid, everyone who can should have the vaccine and anyone not is being incredibly selfish and I haven’t heard a single sensible argument not to have it, as you will see from my discussions on other threads...

BBBUUUUTTTT

I think vaccine “passports” and proof of vaccine status to do quite normal and basic things, against what will become a recurring, endemic illness, is a huge over reach, a massive abuse and a direct attack on basic human rights and liberties.
Agree
Same here. But I recognise that over this extraordinary period populist policies like this have gained huge support amongst the masses when fed through a willing media. I would also hazard vaccination passports / “certificates” will be monster money making machines irrespective of any measure of their effectiveness.

I have total faith there is enormous pressure on the government to approve and certify their roll out.

It disgusts me.

Brave Fart

5,750 posts

112 months

Wednesday 24th February 2021
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Well, the last eleven pages or so has been a mixed bag. But no-one seems able to say why a domestic vaccine passport is necessary (travel is different since we have no say over what other nations do). If, as seems likely, the large majority of UK citizens have been vaccinated, they are protected and need have no concerns. Let's face it, the healthy under 60's have very little to worry about even without a vaccine in any event.
What actual benefit would a domestic vaccine passport have?

Graveworm

8,500 posts

72 months

Wednesday 24th February 2021
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Biggy Stardust said:
Sophisticated Sarah said:
YouGov poll just gone up asking about health passports.

66% currently in favour.
1 Polls don't have a good record as far as accuracy is concerned.

2 Nobody has ever asked me or anyone I know for these polls- I suspect tey pick their audience according to what result they'd like

3 I remember the "Yes, Prime Minister" episode where Sir Humphrey explained how polls can easily be influenced (ie manipulated).
1) They have never been out by anything like this margin of error.

2) They show the breakdown and demographic of who they ask and how for each poll. If you haven't won the lottery then does that prove no one wins the lottery? https://yougov.co.uk/about/panel-methodology/

3) The questions and the sequence of questions they ask are published for each survey. Yougov are also showing support for Scottish independence and disapproval for the government handling of the pandemic, so hardly some made up stats to make Boris happy. If they were doing this, then the people who work there would have enormous power over their bosses by threatening to blow the whistle. In fact surely by now some of them would have?

It's not just Yougov, Ipsos Mori etc. throughout have conducted similar polls with similar results.

anonymous-user

55 months

Wednesday 24th February 2021
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Brave Fart said:
Well, the last eleven pages or so has been a mixed bag. But no-one seems able to say why a domestic vaccine passport is necessary (travel is different since we have no say over what other nations do). If, as seems likely, the large majority of UK citizens have been vaccinated, they are protected and need have no concerns. Let's face it, the healthy under 60's have very little to worry about even without a vaccine in any event.
What actual benefit would a domestic vaccine passport have?
Virtue signalling

Taylor James

3,111 posts

62 months

Wednesday 24th February 2021
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Sophisticated Sarah said:
YouGov poll just gone up asking about health passports.

66% currently in favour.
A yougov poll on restoring capital punishment would probably get 90% in favour but that's not how we make policy in this country.