The government, which isn’t known for its anti-discrimination credentials, will argue that Covid passes are not discriminatory because you can get the green tick via tests rather than vaccine/immunity.. 🥴 Wrong. Point missed. Here’s why...
First, the Covid pass is a health ID card for segregation via civilian enforcement. It will be a tool of oppression for bouncers, bosses, anyone with authority to police others. Like all suspicionless checks (stop & search) it will be used as a stick to beat marginalised groups.
Second, healthy people without vaccines would have to be tested more than lab rats, likely incurring time off work (soon college/uni?), possibly costs, with an unacceptably high risk of false positives that lead to more missed work, isolation and socio-economic disadvantage.
For more on the risks and ethics of mass testing healthy and unexposed people (tldr at current prevalence and even if prevalence was x3, it shouldn’t happen) please see our new report Access Denied, esp pages 12-18: bigbrotherwatch.org.uk/wp-content/upl… 
Third, the availability of a green tick via natural immunity via prior infection - when used for segregation - creates a perverse, seriously risky incentive. It could be seen as easier than constant testing to expose yourself to the virus. Think chicken pox parties but for Covid.
Fourth, and this is a corker, the Covid pass system is likely to be enforced via... 🥁 facial recognition! A technology with longstanding inaccuracy issues esp with gender, race, disability.
To verify you’re a ✅ rather than ❌ you’d be biometrically scanned on an app or camera.
To verify you’re a ✅ rather than ❌ you’d be biometrically scanned on an app or camera.
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