Thread by @ErrataRob

Apple created this wonderfuly privacy-protecting contact-tracing app technology. Few (in the U.S.) actually installed it.

Now they want privacy-destroying vaccine passport apps imposed on people to force political correctness rather than health.

Vaccine passports aren't about health, since the almost all the danger the unvaccinated have is toward other unvaccinated people. Thus, requiring vaccine passports to attend a concert is silly.

Vaccines aren't about personal protection or individual incidents of infecting others. Instead, they are about herd immune getting the number of infections down from 50k/day to 1k/day.

Thus, you are definitely a jerk not getting vaccinated, putting your personal preferences above the needs of others. If we don't get herd immunity, then you'll suffer along with the rest of us with lockdowns and mask mandates.

But you are a general jerk, and not a specific danger for concerts and such where they are proposing vaccine passports.

You think it's white Fox News viewers who are the problem. It's not. Statistically, those most resistant to getting vaccines are blacks and hispanics. The people being jerks about vaccines include those trying to force them, not just those resisting them

https://twitter.com/john_donoghue/status/1387482275647049734

Instead of totalitarian instinct forcing people to get vaccines against their will, just offer to pay people $500 for a vaccine instead. Presumably you'd guard against fraud by tattooing the injection site (which'll also make conspiracy theorists overjoyed).

Practically, vaccines will take a day out of your time to go get one, and a LOT of people are going to miss a day or two more from work because reacting to it. It's not unreasonable to compensate people for this.

Yes, yes, there are anti-vaxxers out there who are extraordinarily stupid. However, numerically, those who most won't get vaccinated are those like single mothers working two jobs who can't afford to be at home for two days because of a strong reaction to the vaccine.