Jersey: Vaccine Passports - Blessing or Curse? (26 March 2021)
Along with aerosol dispersal, self-isolation and the alcohol content of hand sanitiser, a Vaccine Passport is yet another concept which covid has forced us to get our heads round in the last 12 months. As well as the obvious health issues caused by the virus, it has also challenged us to reconsider how much we value our freedom.....and what we will accept being removed or suspended.
This is a year when we have all accepted being ordered to stay at home for most of each day, wearing a face mask to go shopping and not seeing loved ones for months on end. Will we also accept being compelled to have a particular medical procedure - a vaccine - if we want to do something, like travel without needing to isolate?
Exactly what is meant by a vaccine passport is still unclear, but already the government is under a lot of pressure to make travel easier - by removing some of the restrictions they have imposed - for those who have had the vaccine.
Along with aerosol dispersal, self-isolation and the alcohol content of hand sanitiser, a Vaccine Passport is yet another concept which covid has forced us to get our heads round in the last 12 months. As well as the obvious health issues caused by the virus, it has also challenged us to reconsider how much we value our freedom.....and what we will accept being removed or suspended.
This is a year when we have all accepted being ordered to stay at home for most of each day, wearing a face mask to go shopping and not seeing loved ones for months on end. Will we also accept being compelled to have a particular medical procedure - a vaccine - if we want to do something, like travel without needing to isolate?
Exactly what is meant by a vaccine passport is still unclear, but already the government is under a lot of pressure to make travel easier - by removing some of the restrictions they have imposed - for those who have had the vaccine.
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