“there’s a long history” in the United States of people “needing to show their papers”
Now maybe we can get rid of drivers licenses, and passports, and Social Security Cards, and car insurance cards, and health insurance cards, and birth certificates, and high school diplomas, and college diploma's, and license plates, and car registrations.
Instead we should all just work together as a community.
I am starting to wonder if the anti-vaxxers truly have no conception that they're harming and killing people.
They should all be kept away from vaccinated and vulnerable people, and if they won't, they should be sent away or jailed -- this is the implicit agreement you make to live in a society -- Do No Harm -- it's not rocket science.
The problem isn't about "vaccine passports = slavery". The problem is that there's a long history of using paperwork as a way to exclude people, especially by race. It was not uncommon, for example, to hold different people to different documentation standards when it came to voting.
The article doesn't say it, but I think she's referring to the notion that black people in particular have a long, ugly history with the medical community and may be reluctant to get the vaccine on that basis. And if so, a vaccine mandate will end up excluding them from a lot of things -- effectively on the basis of race.
That doesn't make her comments right. The vaccines are safe, and if some minorities are concerned, the solution isn't to exempt them. The solution is to make it clear that this is a crisis that we're all involved in, and that the vaccine is a safe way to not only protect them, but to protect everybody, and make it possible for everybody to return to normal lives. The goal of vaccine passports is, ironically, to do away with vaccine passports -- to get enough people vaccinated that we no longer have to worry about passing the disease on.
So she's wrong, but not for the asinine reasons that the New York Post wants you to believe. Because they're a rag, with an explicit partisan agenda and flagrant disregard for the truth.
"to get enough people vaccinated that we no longer have to worry about passing the disease on."
Where did you get that idea?
I was told the vaccine is non-sterilizing, so vaccinated people can pass it on. The vaccines are touted to reduce symptoms and hospital stays, not stop the spread.
The virus is in the cat population, so cats will pass it on until approximately forever.
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[ 2.7 ms ] story [ 26.9 ms ] thread“there’s a long history” in the United States of people “needing to show their papers”
Now maybe we can get rid of drivers licenses, and passports, and Social Security Cards, and car insurance cards, and health insurance cards, and birth certificates, and high school diplomas, and college diploma's, and license plates, and car registrations.
Instead we should all just work together as a community.
I am starting to wonder if the anti-vaxxers truly have no conception that they're harming and killing people.
They should all be kept away from vaccinated and vulnerable people, and if they won't, they should be sent away or jailed -- this is the implicit agreement you make to live in a society -- Do No Harm -- it's not rocket science.
The less stupid headline from the Boston Herald reads "Kim Janey invokes slavery, Trump birtherism over question on vaccine passports".
https://www.bostonherald.com/2021/08/03/janey-invokes-slaver...
The problem isn't about "vaccine passports = slavery". The problem is that there's a long history of using paperwork as a way to exclude people, especially by race. It was not uncommon, for example, to hold different people to different documentation standards when it came to voting.
The article doesn't say it, but I think she's referring to the notion that black people in particular have a long, ugly history with the medical community and may be reluctant to get the vaccine on that basis. And if so, a vaccine mandate will end up excluding them from a lot of things -- effectively on the basis of race.
That doesn't make her comments right. The vaccines are safe, and if some minorities are concerned, the solution isn't to exempt them. The solution is to make it clear that this is a crisis that we're all involved in, and that the vaccine is a safe way to not only protect them, but to protect everybody, and make it possible for everybody to return to normal lives. The goal of vaccine passports is, ironically, to do away with vaccine passports -- to get enough people vaccinated that we no longer have to worry about passing the disease on.
So she's wrong, but not for the asinine reasons that the New York Post wants you to believe. Because they're a rag, with an explicit partisan agenda and flagrant disregard for the truth.
Where did you get that idea? I was told the vaccine is non-sterilizing, so vaccinated people can pass it on. The vaccines are touted to reduce symptoms and hospital stays, not stop the spread.
The virus is in the cat population, so cats will pass it on until approximately forever.