We hung German Doctors and their Bosses for experimenting on Prisioners, and right here our own Government denied Black people treatment for Syphillis and used Military Members for Medical Trials of various types without their knowledge!
It would help to first actually execute the testing protocol whatever it is, before changing the protocol and continuing to not execute on it.
My Tripadvisor reviews now include mention of how they are handling Covid (staff masks, social distancing, customer masks, enforcement, etc.) The overall rating goes down if I see problems. I figure if they can't fix the obvious, then what's going on behind the scenes?
I have not suggested that it is impossible to check vaccine letters at the time of boarding and disallowing boarding to those that do not have one. The only variation that I suggested is that it may be more useful to require in addition a recent serum test result since that is more immediate proof that someone is actually likely to have immunity than merely having gotten a vaccine.
Most third world countries also seem to be able to control their pandemic outbreak better than the US as things stand today anyway.As for Third World Countries, many of them run a much better passenger rail system than the US. So just because a third world country can do something is no evidence that the US can do the same.
However, requiring a recent antibody test result showing positive and/or a PCR test showing negative could be instituted much quicker,
There is no guarantee that us old folk will have priority. To stop the virus, it is necessary for those who interact with the most people in the worst way possible to get vaccinated. Those of us older folk who hunker down are more likely to die if we get it but less likely to get it in the first place.
I suspect that all workers who are customer facing in some form will get priority, with Healthcare and Emergency workers at the head of the line, because they specifically work in the most hostile environment as far as danger of infection goes. I am sure all retail workers, school teachers etc. are in the next most hostile environment, together with students and such.
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Yeah I saw that. Interesting times as the US slowly rejoins the civilized world!
It will take quite a while to incorporate that information in a Passport though. There will have to be an interim solution. They will also have to figure out a way of easily updating information in a trustworthy way in the Passport chip every so often, since the vaccination info will presumably need to be updated every year or more or less frequently depending on how long the immunity lasts. So while it is a good sentiment, realizing it will take a while. As a starter the Data element to hold the information has to be standardized and added to the Passport data standard.
That was my thought as well when listening to the interview. While he stated it like a fact, it rang more like "what he'd like to happen". As I alluded in a prior post regarding Amtrak, it's not like any carrier is going to be able to impose a requirement like this anytime soon or they'll be risking empty trains/planes until the vaccination rate catches up - which could be months. If you add in the delays by bureaucracy to implement identification it could be years for an industry already struggling to survive.
