This sounds like horns effect to me. There’s no reason to assume “disagrees with you about the costs and benefits of a vaccine” has any correlation with “unskilled at lying”, even if they disagree for dumb reasons and are wrong.
I agree with you that there’s a set of people who will loudly announce their opposition, because they view it as the principled thing to do. But I’ve also seen people on reddit or mommy forums discuss the joy of successfully passing their unvaccinated kids off as vaccinated.
FYI, there is an enforcement mechanism for fake vaccination credentials, separate and distinct from what we expect (or even should expect) of “gatekeepers”: fraud reporting from the public:
The Key to NYC provides that gatekeepers can report fraud, but doesn’t require them to. Fraud reporting is outsourced to the general public, so that the gatekeeper role can remain a purely administrative control (rather than an engineering control).
This sounds like horns effect to me. There’s no reason to assume “disagrees with you about the costs and benefits of a vaccine” has any correlation with “unskilled at lying”, even if they disagree for dumb reasons and are wrong.
I agree with you that there’s a set of people who will loudly announce their opposition, because they view it as the principled thing to do. But I’ve also seen people on reddit or mommy forums discuss the joy of successfully passing their unvaccinated kids off as vaccinated.
FYI, there is an enforcement mechanism for fake vaccination credentials, separate and distinct from what we expect (or even should expect) of “gatekeepers”: fraud reporting from the public:
https://portal.311.nyc.gov/article/?kanumber=KA-03447
and
https://dos.ny.gov/news/consumer-alert-new-york-state-division-consumer-protection-warns-new-yorkers-about-risks-fake
and last but not least:
https://oig.hhs.gov/fraud/report-fraud/
The Key to NYC provides that gatekeepers can report fraud, but doesn’t require them to. Fraud reporting is outsourced to the general public, so that the gatekeeper role can remain a purely administrative control (rather than an engineering control).