Free Republic
Browse · Search
General/Chat
Topics · Post Article

Skip to comments.

A new reason to swipe right? Dating apps adding vax badges
AP via Houston Chronicle ^ | May 21, 2021 | ZEKE MILLER

Posted on 05/21/2021 11:13:25 AM PDT by a fool in paradise

WASHINGTON (AP) — The White House is pushing a new reason to swipe right: vaccination badges and “super swipes” for people who've gotten their coronavirus shots.

The Biden administration said Friday it's teaming up with dating apps to showcase the benefits of getting a shot.

Apps like Hinge, Tinder, Match and Bumble are offering special incentives to people who roll up their sleeves, including badges showing vaccination status and free access to premium content. BLK and Chispa will boost profiles of those who are vaccinated, to make them more visible to potential matches. And OKCupid will even let users filter out potential partners based on whether they’ve gotten a vaccine.

...Beware: Like a would-be date's professed height or age, there is no way to verify the vaccination status of the dating app users...

(Excerpt) Read more at chron.com ...


TOPICS: Computers/Internet; Health/Medicine; Society
KEYWORDS: bidenlegacy; covidpassport; hookupculture
Navigation: use the links below to view more comments.
first 1-2021-25 next last

1 posted on 05/21/2021 11:13:25 AM PDT by a fool in paradise
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | View Replies]

To: a fool in paradise

I cannot think a reason to even use these apps

I don’t need me a Tinderella story


2 posted on 05/21/2021 11:17:01 AM PDT by algore
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: a fool in paradise

That’s fine, but what about STDs? /smirk


3 posted on 05/21/2021 11:19:01 AM PDT by Salman (It's not a "slippery slope" if it was part of the program all along. )
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: algore

I don’t know about the most sexual of them (Tinder, Grinder, etc) but the ones that I have seen do not ask about STDs.

So apparently these corporate wizards are only interested in their “customers” getting the covid and not herpes, HPV, AIDS, syph, genital warts, etc...


4 posted on 05/21/2021 11:19:05 AM PDT by a fool in paradise (Lean on Joe Biden to follow Donald Trump's example and donate his annual salary to charity. )
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 2 | View Replies]

To: Salman

California courts and legislators have said that is no business of a sexual partner to know that AND there can be no criminal charge for knowingly spreading such diseases.


5 posted on 05/21/2021 11:20:22 AM PDT by a fool in paradise (Lean on Joe Biden to follow Donald Trump's example and donate his annual salary to charity. )
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 3 | View Replies]

To: a fool in paradise

Being a porn stud is much safer, at least you know where the women have been, and when they were last tested for all the fun things you mentioned.


6 posted on 05/21/2021 11:23:08 AM PDT by algore
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 4 | View Replies]

These liberal dating sites didn’t refund users who subscribed around when the lockdowns occurred or offer discounts.


7 posted on 05/21/2021 11:24:30 AM PDT by TakebackGOP
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 6 | View Replies]

To: a fool in paradise

cause God knows, nobody EVER lies on the net...

and then what, they gonna ask to see yer papers?


8 posted on 05/21/2021 11:25:53 AM PDT by Chode (there is no fall back position, there's no rally point, there is no LZ... we're on our own. P144:1)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: a fool in paradise

Have you been vaccinated?

Well maybe, it depends on where you think I got it.


9 posted on 05/21/2021 11:26:23 AM PDT by Scrambler Bob (My /s is more true than your /science (or you might mean /seance))
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: Chode

OK
I’ll sign up, and declare Vaxxed.

Then that is my ‘documentation’ when asked — ‘Look at my profile’.


10 posted on 05/21/2021 11:27:36 AM PDT by Scrambler Bob (My /s is more true than your /science (or you might mean /seance))
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 8 | View Replies]

To: a fool in paradise

On that note, one of the responses I’ve seen suggested for the inappropriate “Have you been vaccinated for Covid” question is “Are you being treated for anal herpes? Since we’re asking each other inappropriate private medical questions.”


11 posted on 05/21/2021 11:30:34 AM PDT by FreedomPoster (Islam delenda est)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 4 | View Replies]

To: TakebackGOP

8 or 12 years ago they were trying to get people on record about their political positions. Intolerant Democrats didn’t want to encounter any conservatives.


12 posted on 05/21/2021 11:30:56 AM PDT by a fool in paradise (Lean on Joe Biden to follow Donald Trump's example and donate his annual salary to charity. )
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 7 | View Replies]

To: a fool in paradise

A new reason to swipe LEFT more like.


13 posted on 05/21/2021 11:31:03 AM PDT by SmokingJoe
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: a fool in paradise

Good. You don’t want to emotionally invest in a person who can transmit spike proteins & possibly have a shorter lifespan.


14 posted on 05/21/2021 11:31:28 AM PDT by Lopeover (Biden & Harris are illegitimate.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: a fool in paradise

I’m into woke politics and I’m looking to meet like-minded cisgender or questioning girls for fun and friendship

And I’m now syphilis free! Come and get it!


15 posted on 05/21/2021 11:32:26 AM PDT by PGR88
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: a fool in paradise

It can be like the ‘Seinfeld’ episode “The Alternate Side” where her older boyfriend strokes out just before she was going to break up with him.


16 posted on 05/21/2021 11:34:54 AM PDT by T.B. Yoits
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: FreedomPoster

These sites won’t even let you block out all female impersonators.


17 posted on 05/21/2021 11:35:19 AM PDT by a fool in paradise (Lean on Joe Biden to follow Donald Trump's example and donate his annual salary to charity. )
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 11 | View Replies]

To: a fool in paradise

Can’t I just include “Vax” as a pronoun? Right along “They, Them, It...whadevah”?


18 posted on 05/21/2021 11:37:43 AM PDT by Caipirabob (Communists...Socialists...Fascists & AntiFa...Democrats...Traitors... Who can tell the difference?)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: Caipirabob
Gooble Gobble
One of us!
One of us!


19 posted on 05/21/2021 11:44:08 AM PDT by a fool in paradise (Lean on Joe Biden to follow Donald Trump's example and donate his annual salary to charity. )
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 18 | View Replies]

To: a fool in paradise

But, but, but... what if a person ‘self identifies’ as a person who go both vaccines?

Isn’t that the same as having both shots? Logic good for the goose good for the gander...


20 posted on 05/21/2021 11:46:13 AM PDT by GOPJ (Liz Cheney: There was NO VOTER FRAUD Winston. YOU agree Winston? How many fingers Winston...?)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 17 | View Replies]


Navigation: use the links below to view more comments.
first 1-2021-25 next last

Disclaimer: Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.

Free Republic
Browse · Search
General/Chat
Topics · Post Article

FreeRepublic, LLC, PO BOX 9771, FRESNO, CA 93794
FreeRepublic.com is powered by software copyright 2000-2008 John Robinson