Passports passé

Vincent J. Curtis

12 Sept 21

On Sunday, British Secretary of Health Sajid Javid announced that Britain would not be going forward with a vaccine passport, and he did not anticipate any more lockdowns.  Not only was the British public being practically French in their demonstrative opposition to passports, but Javid understood that passports were being implemented for no rational reason.

“We shouldn’t be doing things for the sake of it,” he said.

The rationale for passports has never made sense.  If a person is vaccinated, he or she is protected from infection from their mask-wearing waitress.  To say otherwise is to maintain that vaccines don’t work and that masks don’t work either.  Hence, the criticism that passports will be required for customers but not staff at a restaurant is incoherent.

By now, those unvaccinated are choosing to be so, and, being adults, are making an adult’s choice to take the risk.  It is a risk they take upon themselves and no one else.  At some point, others have to respect that decision.  If an one adult cannot respect the decision of another adult without an articulable, principled reason, then why should the other respect the decisions of the first?

If Ontarians were like-minded with the British, Premier Doug Ford wouldn’t dare to impose a passport mandate.  At this point, governments are only listening to the crazy Karens, and whichever side shouts the loudest gets the policy choice.

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