I should have disclosed: I currently lean toward “vaccine passports are impossible to do well enough to pass a cost/benefit test”. This is a fairly weak belief, and I haven’t really come to grips with different vaccination rates and behaviors in different regions (I live in Seattle, and pretty much my entire 2nd-degree acquaintanceship is vaccinated or has an appointment to be (or is lying about it!)).
I’d be OK with a fairly easy-to-forge document with a penalty for forgery—that’s low-cost and low/medium benefit. More intrusive mechanisms ramp up in cost (in money and unreasonable discrimination and undue invasion of privacy) much faster than in value.
I should have disclosed: I currently lean toward “vaccine passports are impossible to do well enough to pass a cost/benefit test”. This is a fairly weak belief, and I haven’t really come to grips with different vaccination rates and behaviors in different regions (I live in Seattle, and pretty much my entire 2nd-degree acquaintanceship is vaccinated or has an appointment to be (or is lying about it!)).
I’d be OK with a fairly easy-to-forge document with a penalty for forgery—that’s low-cost and low/medium benefit. More intrusive mechanisms ramp up in cost (in money and unreasonable discrimination and undue invasion of privacy) much faster than in value.
I was talking to my brother last night and we agreed that there’s a chance we might get vaccine passports right just in time for the next pandemic.