Vaccine Passports

[bilby]

What??? What about the anorexic false female body image would Australians not be familiar with vs a grilling surface???

I think it is a joke about throwing some shrimp on the barbie...

Ok, I'll say it again. What??

I'm totally lost here. Do I not watch enough TV or something?

There was an ad campaign by Australian tourism in the late 1980s featuring Paul Hogan (who starred in Crocodile Dundee), with the tag line "I'll slip another shrimp on the barbie for you".

The campaign was targeted at Americans, hence the use of "shrimp" - Australians would have used "Prawn", but Americans weren't expected to understand what that was.

That campaign finished in 1990, so watching TV in the last thirty years probably wouldn't have helped.

 

[crazyfingers]

Ok, I'll say it again. What??

I'm totally lost here. Do I not watch enough TV or something?

There was an ad campaign by Australian tourism in the late 1980s featuring Paul Hogan (who starred in Crocodile Dundee), with the tag line "I'll slip another shrimp on the barbie for you".

The campaign was targeted at Americans, hence the use of "shrimp" - Australians would have used "Prawn", but Americans weren't expected to understand what that was.

That campaign finished in 1990, so watching TV in the last thirty years probably wouldn't have helped.

Ah. Thanks.

 

[Elixir]

For international travel, you need a WHO 'Yellow Book'; aka 'Vaccine Passport', or to use its formal title 'International Certificate of Vaccination or Prophylaxis'

Yah, it has been a while but I'm familiar with the pain yellow paper with stamps, type and signatures.
Maybe I was exaggerating when I said five minutes. Make it fifty minutes.

 

[TomC]

Things got ugly quick there.

In Florida the Governor made it illegal to issue a vaccine passport.

There's an interesting case for the SCOTUS.
"Can a governor outlaw an accurate document for political purposes?"

Something tells me it wouldn't even survive federal court.

Looks more like the Trumpistas simmering in their own blood.
Tom

 

[untermensche]

Things got ugly quick there.

In Florida the Governor made it illegal to issue a vaccine passport.

There's an interesting case for the SCOTUS.
"Can a governor outlaw an accurate document for political purposes?"

Something tells me it wouldn't even survive federal court.

Looks more like the Trumpistas simmering in their own blood.
Tom

The Florida Governor wants to be president. And he is using Trump as his model for success with insane Americans.

 

[Loren Pechtel]

No they haven't. They've been abandoned due to the successful containment and treatment of the diseases.

The only remaining disease on the WHO schedule is Yellow Fever, and even that disease only requires a vaccine passport for travel to or from a small number of countries.

Yup, the other stuff on there is no longer a big enough issue to demand vaccinations.

Any document or certification can be forged. We don't abandon passports, driver's licences, cash, professional certifications, company IDs, etc., etc., despite many of these being quite easy to falsify or forge, and all of them being possible to forge.

The old yellow cards were extremely easy to forge. I used a forged one at several border crossings in 1982--some African nations still demanded smallpox--a vaccine that was no longer available. Put a fake one in your card or pay a bribe to the officials when you enter those countries. Of course the prepared traveler faked it. I'm sure the immigration people in England were aware of what was going on as they didn't care about what anyone wise to the world would see had to be fake. (In 1982 the only people getting smallpox shots were a very few virologists and some military. As a 17 year old it was obvious I was neither.)

I can think of two approaches: An encrypted app on our phones or a card that has a QR code on it, the official scans it and a list of your current travel vaccines comes up, along with your picture. Or perhaps both--the phone based approach gives a bit more privacy, but requires a phone. People who don't want a phone would use the card approach.