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Zeus posted...

There's no reasonable justification for "qualifying" people to enter a store.

There's a goddamn pandemic, and a whole bunch of people have chosen not to participate in fixing the problem. If there's ever going to be reasonable justification to qualify people to enter stores, this is it.

Zeus posted...

The best justification for somebody needing to be "qualified" to use a basic service involving food would be immigration status

And now we're using public health measures as precedent for outright racism/xenophobia. I must say that I actually didn't see that coming. Congratulations, you've found a rare opportunity to out-Zeus yourself.

Conner4REAL posted...

Vaccine passport =/= restricted access based on vaccination status.

all it does is create a more standardized and (probably) reliable Means for an individual to provide proof of vaccination status.

for access and restrictions that should be up to the individual business owners no shirt no shoes no vaccine, no service.

its the owners business they should chose how to operate without state interference.

As nice an idea as that is, it's pretty useless as an infection control strategy. Individual businesses tend to have their own success as a priority, not public health. Realistically, any business that does demand masks and/or vaccines when their competitors do not is going to suffer quite significantly. We've already seen this with the relaxation of mask mandates: Very few individual businesses kept them up once others decided that "the 30% of the population that's fully vaccinated doesn't need masks" meant "nobody needs masks."

Without a uniform mandate, any business that does try to contribute to overcoming this pandemic is going to be at a considerable disadvantage compared to those that don't. Mandates level the playing field and ensure that measures are actually taken, which is the only way to actually fix the problem. That's very much at odds with the ideal of giving people freedom to operate as they wish, but that's always come with the caveat of "provided they don't hurt anyone," and in a pandemic situation, operating against public health recommendations hurts people. There is, unfortunately, no way around that.

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