I appreciate the explanation of the downvote (no harm no foul) and I’ll try to tweak it if I get a chance. I probably do have experiential information that’s hard to unpack (without starting to break confidentiality, based on my line of work—which is annoying, because I absolutely never wanted to play the “I could tell you, but then I’d have to wipe your memory tomorrow” card, but here we are).
I do think the potential for escalation of conflict is a real concern; and that’s another reason for keeping the implementation as discreet as possible. For a restaurant, I could imagine a combined vaccine status/capacity logging/contact tracing app that has the same look and feel to everyone involved as a handy way of making reservations in 30 minute increments once the capacity reaches a certain level. This would involve giving everyone a QR code, and I believe this would probably be easier to enforce because it’s a lot easier to catch “two people being in the same place at the same time”
My main “meta-points” in all of this are:
a) Keeping the code open source, like Jeffrey Zients suggests, is incredibly important. b) We should try to come up with a set of guidelines of what it would mean for vaccine passports to be a failure (e.g., no measurable effect on case rates, evidence of rampant forgery, etc)
I appreciate the explanation of the downvote (no harm no foul) and I’ll try to tweak it if I get a chance. I probably do have experiential information that’s hard to unpack (without starting to break confidentiality, based on my line of work—which is annoying, because I absolutely never wanted to play the “I could tell you, but then I’d have to wipe your memory tomorrow” card, but here we are).
I do think the potential for escalation of conflict is a real concern; and that’s another reason for keeping the implementation as discreet as possible. For a restaurant, I could imagine a combined vaccine status/capacity logging/contact tracing app that has the same look and feel to everyone involved as a handy way of making reservations in 30 minute increments once the capacity reaches a certain level. This would involve giving everyone a QR code, and I believe this would probably be easier to enforce because it’s a lot easier to catch “two people being in the same place at the same time”
My main “meta-points” in all of this are:
a) Keeping the code open source, like Jeffrey Zients suggests, is incredibly important.
b) We should try to come up with a set of guidelines of what it would mean for vaccine passports to be a failure (e.g., no measurable effect on case rates, evidence of rampant forgery, etc)