Posted on 12/21/2020 8:31:09 PM PST by yesthatjallen
Work is being carried out to develop coronavirus freedom 'passports' that will allow those who have tested negative to enter pubs, schools and workplaces.
Two firms have been awarded Government contracts for exploratory work on a new app that would allow people to prove they do not have Covid.
The Department of Health said no decisions had been made on introducing the passport.
The contracts envisage a system under which people are assigned a QR code on their smartphones linking to a digital passport that includes a photo of them.
After a Covid test, this would be updated at the test centre and when people want to enter a venue they could present their QR code as proof of their negative status.
After scanning in the code, the venue could refuse entry to those without a recent negative result.
The idea is controversial and critics argue it would in effect create an 'apartheid' system between those who have the virus and those who do not.
It is not clear how those without smartphones would be able to prove they were negative.
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My 9mm is my freedom code.
And get food.
Can a person be asymptomatic and test positive? Can a person who tests negative one day test positive the next? So many questions. So little faith.
Papers, please.
Mother, Mother...may I?
Can’t wait for the snarky comments and the resulting 99.9999% capitulation when it happens.
I was a hall monitor in the 7th grade. If a kid was in the hall without a pass, I took him to the principals office. Will this work like that?
Negative one day, positive the next. Just brilliant.
This is a terrible idea.
Internal passports. Just like Communist nations have.
“Paperz, pleez”
“It’s not clear how those without smartphones would be able to prove they were negative.”
Just say it already. You want to chip everyone.
I truly hope you have the courage of your convictions because I hear and read so much big and brave statements from people but they don’t actually do anything aside from post on a blog. Reminds me of Trump’s efforts and the Bombshell chatter but nothing ever happens.
I fear our side will lose in the end due to all talk and no action because we lack the courage of our convictions. Myself included.
Which agency approved these contracts? Exactly whose idea is it?
Anybody in Congress give a damn?
Hell no they can shove their so called passports and vaccines
I got up and walked out of the barbershop today when they told me I had to wear a mask to get a haircut
For Gods sake it’s time to stand up and start acting like Americans
Among others we have a Senator who is a doctor saying wearing masks is just submission
You can test negative, and still have the virus, just like you can test positive, and not have it.
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