EU Green Pass-generation keys stolen (opens in new tab)

- I'm well-trained and prefer to be around well-trained people

- I'm classically educated and prefer to be around classically educated people

- I'm an atheist and prefer to be around atheists

- I'm Christian and prefer to be around Christians

- I'm Hindu and prefer to be around Hindus

- I'm Muslim and prefer to be around Muslims

- I'm vegetarian and prefer to be around vegetarians

- I'm anarchist and prefer to be around anarchists

- I'm <category> and prefer to be around <category>

Notice the segregated society this attitude creates? Now look in some history books - real ones, not political propaganda pieces - and see how this type of us-versus-them society tends to end up.

I'm vaccinated and I don't give a damn about whether people around me are vaccinated or not. I'm atheist and like to mingle with Christians, Hindus, Muslims and what have you. I'm left-handed and still willing to shake your hand (remember that, shaking hands?). I'm open to the world, not just to my own in-group. I might not agree with many of the doctrines of those Muslims nor some of those Christians or Hindus, I might sometimes be annoyed at how utensils are tailored to right-handed people but I'm not going to segregate myself into an atheist, left-handed, classically educated, ... group just because of such trivial quibbles.

Also, SARS2 is not a big threat to vaccinated people. Why the hysteria? Did you act this way during one of the influenza pandemics? If not, then why treat this disease differently?

Pre-green pass I basically carried a thick folder as I crossed multiple countries, each with different restrictions and translation requirements.

All the document and its regulation do is say, "if you impose entry requirements based on vaccination / testing / recovery, you must accept at least these types of vaccines / tests / recovery specifics and you must accept this document (if genuine) as proving what it says, and all of this on a non-discriminatory basis regardless of nationality or place of occurrence." The document itself is never made mandatory by the EU and alternative proofs for entry to a member state must be accepted.

(Why do I say "document" instead of app? From the user perspective, you can print it on paper, present it as a PDF, or use one of many interoperable national apps among other ways to present it.)

So, the restrictions you're unhappy about are imposed by countries in reaction to COVID; the document we're discussing just sets some minimum allowed level of ease in satisfying national entry requirements.

That's literally the idea behind fighting contagious diseases, widely used to defend islands and castles before the vaccines. People used to wait in ships for weeks before they can embark. We used to have castles insulated to keep an outbreak out of it's population. Through the history of humanity, countless people were lost to contagious diseases.

The Green Pass thingy is essentially an enabler to open up the castle and let sailors embark without waiting for weeks to see if if they will get sick or not. It's a management tool to relieve the hardships of contagious diseases fighting methods.

So let's not confuse the causality here.

Not gonna happen, sadly, as long as there are irresponsible neighbours like the UK, where I sadly happen to live (for my sins).

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