Posted on 02/14/2021 1:09:59 AM PST by RandFan
It is increasingly obvious that other countries feel the same. There is already a host of initiatives starting around the world with this aim in mind.
My Institute for Global Change is involved in many of them, including the CommonPass initiative from the World Economic Forum. Individual countries such as Greece, which is conscious of the huge impact of Covid on its tourist industry, are calling for global agreement on the issue. The African Union has started its own preparations.
The airline and tourism industries are among those most anxious for such a passport. Tourism accounts for roughly ten per cent of the world economy. It employs millions the world over, including in Britain.
And that means a wide range of businesses are clinging on, effectively on government life-support – provided, that is, they’re lucky enough to be in countries where the government can just about afford to subsidise them.
But without clear light at the end of the tunnel, without confidence in the future, these businesses are going to collapse. Some already have.
Once it is plain that we need to know the status of someone in order to feel safe mixing with them, then certain other things must flow.
We need a system of verification that is simple, for example a QR code shown on a mobile. Or a valid paper certificate – one that minimises the possibility of fraud. We need something which is easily checked against an agreed set of standards.
It is not as if proof of vaccination is completely new. Many countries already require travellers to show such proof for yellow fever and other diseases.
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