What do you think of a Covid-19 “vaccine passport” being required for activities such as travelling and going to bars and restaurants?
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Many are considering the introduction of a vaccination “passport”, or a certificate that would allow people vaccinated against Covid-19 to travel safely and move more freely. The Israeli government, which has made great strides in its vaccination campaign, has adopted a so-called “green pass” whose holders can go to bars and restaurants without restriction.
A similar solution is also being discussed in Switzerland, with the country being encouraged to sign on to the European Union’s vaccine passport programme. What are your thoughts?
From the article As Covid passports come to Europe, what will Switzerland do?
No no no on vaccine passports. Covid is NOT our biggest concern.
Artificial intelligence is not good
Because we will become in great danger when we let our machine control
L'intelligence artificielle n'est pas bonne
Parce que nous deviendrons en grand danger lorsque nous laisserons notre machine de contrôle
nothing We already had it, without it you were only allowed to sit outside in the Resti, Therme did not go at all
nichts Wir hatten ihn schon, ohne ihn durfte man im Resti nur draußen sitzen, Therme ging gar nicht
As far as foreign travel is concerned, yes I understand the need for a health pass. But daily life in your own country is a bit of an invasion of other people's freedom. If it continues like this, life will be impossible for many people.
En ce qui concerne les voyages à l'étranger, oui je comprends le besoin du passe sanitaire. Mais la vie quotidienne dans son propre pays, c'est un peu envahir la liberté d'autrui. Si ça continue comme ça, la vie sera impossible pour beaucoup de personnes.
I live on an island without a car in Brazil. There are plenty of unmasked tourists, maybe vaccinated, maybe not. But no Covid patient in sight! That, for several months. Would it be the car the problem ?
No kidding, when will tattooing become mandatory? Let's take off our muzzles.
Je vis sur une île sans voiture au Brésil. Il y a plein de touristes sans masque, peut-être vacciné, ou pas. Mais pas de malade de Covid en vue !! Cela, depuis plusieurs mois. Serait-ce la voiture le problème ?
Sans rire, à quand le tatouage obligatoire. Enlevons nos muselières.
I don't know how to start with the Corona file, but does this pandemic deserve all these precautionary measures and that the whole world should stand unable to overcome this ordeal, and is this flu, which did not exceed 1% of deaths around the world? At the same time, there are diseases such as cancer whose deaths exceeded 15 million that did not take the same International momentum and attention, as I believe that it is a disease like other diseases, our freedom as human beings should not be restricted because of this pandemic
لا اعلم كيف أبتدئ بملف كورونا ولكن هل هذه الجائحه تستحق كل هذه الاجراءات الاحترازيه وأن يقف العالم بأسره عاجزا عن تجاوز هذا المحنه وهل هذه الانفلونزا التي لم يتجاوز الوفيات حول العالم ١٪ علما انه في نفس الوقت توجد امراض كسرطان تجاوز وفياتها ١٥ مليون لم تأخذ نفس هذا الزخم والاهتمام الدولي فبحسب اعتقادي انه مرض كباقي الامراض لايجب تقييد حريتنا كبشر بسب هذه الجائحه
Yes
نعم
The best solution is if you are infected with COVID-19, go to receive treatment and analyzes if you are healthy, however, there are analyzes every 3 months with activation in the electronic system and a complete device for this subject and when they intercite a questionable person who gives them a ID card number, they will know what steps he has taken and if He did not take a step from this law, the aid of the COVID-19 police will be written by a financial written written addition to the treasury of COVID-19 to benefit the injured, and he is required to analyze, either sentenced to health spinning without passports or empty speech everything in the head. and without problems.
احسن حل هو إذا كنت مصاب بكوفيد ١٩ اذهب لتلقي العلاج و و التحاليل إذا كنت سليما مع ذلك هناك تحاليل كل 3 أشهر مع التفعيل في المنظومة الإلكترونية و جهاز كامل خاص بهذا الموضوع و عندما يعترضون أحدا مشكوك فيه يعطيهم رقم بطاقة شخصية فسوف يعرفون ماهي الخطوات التي اتخذها و إذا لم يتخذ خطوة من هذا القانون فسيقوم عون شرطة الكوفيد ١٩ بتخطيته خطية مالية تضاف إلى خزينة الكوفيد ١٩ ليستفيد منها المصابين و الزامه بالتحليل اما الحكم عليه بالغزل الصحي بدون جوازات سفر أو كلام فارغ كل شي في الرأس .. و بدون مشاكل .
It is very unfortunate that a health passport is linked to our private lives, which serves as a serial number for a prisoner sentenced to a crime.
The solution is to eliminate the source of the virus and who was founded to create the virus in order to take the vaccine.
مؤسف جدا أن يرتبط بحياتنا الخاصة جواز صحي وهو بمثابة رقم تسلسل لسجين محكوم بجريمة.جواب: ( لا إنه ليس حلاّ عمليا )
الحل هو في القضاء على مصدر الفيروس و من أسّس لخلق الفيروس من أجل أخذ اللقاح.
Marti and toto are on a boat,
Marti's on the boat because of his vaccine,
Toto thanks to his pcr test which is negative for coronavirus.
They get off the boat and get sick with the coronavirus,
Who infected whom?
It happens exactly that in our Switzerland, and one accuses the non-vaccinated of irresponsible, pff...
I hope that all this will stop quickly and that we will stop making people believe that vaccination is the solution.
It will be the solution when it will have proved itself, for the moment it is not the case.
Marti et toto sont sur un bateau,
Marti est sur le bateau grâce à son vaccin,
Toto grâce à son test pcr qui est négatif au coronavirus.
Ils descendent du bateau et tombent malade du coronavirus,
Qui a contaminé qui?
Il se passe exactement cela dans notre Suisse, et on accuse les non vaccinés d'irresponsable, pff...
J'espère que tous celà va vite s'arrêter et qu'on va arrêter de faire croire au gens que la vaccination c'est la solution.
Elle sera la solution quand elle aura fait ses preuves, pour le moment ce n'est pas le cas.
Personally, he does not like Fazalka - everyone who refuses vaccination acts as a murderer, murderer for his people, and for himself So 80% of the dead and sick with the Coronavirus are Muslims even here in Europe and America, because they are satisfied that God only pursues non-Muslims to kill them with disease. Reason* then be given.
شخصيا لا اهوى الفزلكة - كل من يرفض التطعيم بمثابة قاتل , قاتل لاهله , ولنفسه . بالتالي 80% من الموتى والمرضى بفيروس كورونا هم من المسلمين حتى هنا في اوروبا , وامريكا , وذلك لاقتناعهم ان الله يلاحق فقط غير المسلمين ليقتلهم بالمرض . اعقل * ثم توكل .
This is not true.
هذا غير صحيح
That this comment is racist, I ask the addict to hold it accountable
أن هذا التعليق عنصرياً أرجو من الادمن محاسبته
Where did you find racism in the written subject, note that the percentage of people infected and dead by Corona is correct and their percentage still exceeds the proportion of non-Muslims. The purpose of the word is to remind Muslims that dependency on Allah is done after a mind (linking the animal) and not before. And push them to take healing serum.
اين عثرت على العنصرية في الموضوع المكتوب , علما ان نسبة المصابين والموتى بكورونا صحيحا ونسبتهم ما زالت حتى الساعة تتجاوز نسبة غير المسلمين , والغاية من الكلمة تذكير المسلمين ان الاتكال على الله يتم بعد عقل ( ربط الحيوان ) وليس قبلا . ودفعهم لاخذ المصل الشافي .
It's true
بل صحيحا
Yes, I'm all for a vaccine passport.
Oui, tout a fait d'accord pour un passeport vaccinal.
to Philipp Meier,
Do you think the USA does a lot better than Switzerland when it comes to vaccination? Do you also think it's okay that people who want to be vaccinated have to be called terrorists and run the risk of being locked up in internment camps? You don't believe that? Then wait for 4 months. Then we'll see.
an Philipp Meier,
finden Sie, dass die USA betreffend Impfen vieles besser machen als die Schweiz? Finden Sie es denn auch in Ordnung, dass sich Impfunwillige als Terroristen bezeichnen lassen müssen und Gefahr laufen, in Internierungslager gesperrt zu werden? Das glauben Sie nicht? Dann warten Sie mal 4 Monate ab. Dann sehen wir weiter.
To PAUL.BARMETTLER@HOTMAIL.COM: My assessments were made about five months ago. My current level of knowledge is no longer sufficient to compare the US and Switzerland. There will be few, if any, countries that will put 'vaccinators' into 'internment camps'. Much more likely they will be excluded from certain public life offerings (just as people experiencing poverty, for example, are already excluded from public life offerings). However, I agree with you that we should critically observe these regulations and surveillance - whether as citizens or in journalism.
An PAUL.BARMETTLER@HOTMAIL.COM: Meine Einschätzungen liegen nun rund fünf Monate zurück. Mein aktueller Wissensstand reicht nicht mehr aus, um die USA und Schweiz zu vergleichen. Wenn überhaupt, wird es nur wenige Länder geben, die 'Impfunwillige' in 'Internierungslager' stecken werden. Viel eher werden sie von gewissen Angeboten des öffentlichen Lebens ausgeschlossen (wie auch schon heute zum Beispiel armutsbetroffene Menschen von Angeboten des öffentlichen Lebens ausgeschlossen sind). Ich gehe jedoch mit Ihnen einig, dass wir diese Regulierungen und Überwachungen kritisch beobachten sollten - ob als Bürgerinnen und Bürger oder im Journalismus.
At the moment it seems to me a bit exaggerated since the vaccine does not immunize 100% of the population. So far we know that someone vaccinated can be infected with covid and can infect others. Making people have a covid passport is only a false security. From these parameters another question arises, what do you really want to achieve or what do you want to achieve by imposing a measure like this?
Por el momento me parece algo exagerado ya que la vacuna no inmuniza 100 % a la población. Hasta el momento sabemos que alguien vacunado puede infectarse de covid y puede infectar a los demás. Hacer que las personas tengan un pasaporte covid solo es una falsa seguridad. De estos parámetros surge otra pregunta, qué es en realidad lo que se quiere lograr o qué se desea obtener al imponer una medida cómo está?
Green Pass Nothing could be more wrong, this is not a vaccine, the real experts talk a lot about the consequences of inoculating these substances, the immune system and its reinforcement allow people to stay healthy, if anyone cares that people are healthy ..... the business of the drug we know well and everything that goes around it,
I think we need to return to normal by simplifying the lives of citizens, using knowledge and not propaganda as for almost 2 years it continues, thank you.
Green Pass Niente di più sbagliato, questo non è un vaccino , i veri esperti ne parlano molto delle conseguenze dall'inocularsi queste sostanze, il sistema immunitario e il suo rinforzo permettono alle persone di stare in salute, sempre che interessi a qualcuno che la gente stia in salute ..... il business del farmaco lo conosciamo bene e di tutto quello che ci gira attorno,
penso bisogni ritornare alla normalità semplificando la vita dei cittadini , usando conoscenza e non propaganda come da quasi 2 anni si continua, grazie
It is absolutely necessary to eliminate any attempt to reduce the peoples to mere subjects of the dictatorship of control that is being attempted. FREEDOM, FREEDOM, FREEDOM!
Assolutamente bisogna eliminare ogni tentativo di ridurre i popoli a meri sudditi della dittatura del controllo che si sta cercando di instaurare. LIBERTÁ, LIBERTÁ, LIBERTÁ!
Of course it should. It is advantageous to establish every kind of order to combat the epidemic during the epidemic.
当然应该。疫情期间建立每一种秩序对抗疫都是有利的。
A vaccination card or health passport is currently the best solution to get out of the closure crises and to give others freedom of movement and movement without fear or concern of injury. I am with this step entirely.
بطاقة التطعيم أو جواز السفر الصحي هو أفضل حل حاليا للخروج من أزمات الإغلاق ولمنح الآخرين حرية الحركة والتنقل دون خوف أو قلق من الإصابة.. أنا مع هذه الخطوة كليا.
Thank you for all your comments and lively debate. The Swiss Confederation has recently decided to use the certificate mainly for travel and not for essential activities. It could be introduced on a voluntary basis - and to avoid closures if the epidemiological situation worsens - in bars, restaurants, events, recreational, sports and leisure facilities and for access as visitors to hospitals and nursing homes. You can find more information [url=https://www.bag.admin.ch/bag/it/home/das-bag/aktuell/medienmitteilungen.msg-id-83599.html]here[/url].
Grazie per tutti i vostri commenti e per il vivace dibattito. La Confederazione svizzera ha recentemente deciso di utilizzare il certificato soprattutto per viaggiare e non per attività essenziali. Potrebbe essere introdotto su base volontaria - e per evitare chiusure se la situazione epidemiologica dovesse peggiorare - in bar, ristoranti, eventi, strutture ricreative, sportive e per il tempo libero e per accedere come visitatori a ospedali e case di cura. Potete trovare maggiori informazioni [url=https://www.bag.admin.ch/bag/it/home/das-bag/aktuell/medienmitteilungen.msg-id-83599.html]qui[/url].
I think a vaccine passport for travel should include those who are fully vaccinated (even one dose, if the vaccine is single dose) those who are cured, with a certificate of cure, and those who cannot vaccinate due to medical issues (herd immunity is precisely to protect these rare cases). I don't see it for those who only have a negative swab. A vaccine pass to travel is not abuse. Already today when you travel to risky areas certain vaccinations are mandatory. If you don't do them, you don't travel.
For internal use instead a vaccination pass is doubtful but could only be valid when all age groups have been enabled to vaccinate, otherwise it would be discriminatory.
Ritengo che un passaporto vaccinale per viaggiare debba comprendere chi è completamente vaccinato (anche una dose, se il vaccino è monodose) chi è guarito, con certificato di guarigione, e chi non può vaccinarsi per problemi medici (l'immunità di gregge serve proprio a proteggere questi rari casi). Non lo vedo per chi ha solo un tampone negativo. Un passa vaccinale per viaggiare non è un abuso. Già oggi quando si viaggia in zone a rischio certe vaccinazioni sono obbligatorie. Se non le fai, non parti.
Ad uso interno invece un pass vaccinale è dubbio ma potrebbe essere valido solo quando tutte le fasce di età sono state abilitate alla vaccinazione, altrimenti sarebbe discriminatorio.
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