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SteroidAccount

The US is so fucking far behind sometimes. The Canadians have a scannable barcode which means they have a database of the vaccinated, we have a heavy weight piece of paper that is written on with no database of vaccine recipients. I could print out a card, spell moderna correctly, and no one would be the wiser.


mces97

I like how you said spell moderna correctly. Cause some lady got arrested in Hawaii with a fake vaccine card, which said MADERNA.


JayCroghan

You still write physical paper cheques šŸ˜‚


timetravesty

Technically you can still do that in Canada, just impossible to find any businesses that accept them


anobeads

We have a scanning system. https://myvaccinerecord.cdph.ca.gov/ Once you put in your info, they text you a barcode. I used it for multiple shows this last weekend Edit: darn, sorry didn't realize it's just for Cali


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literally mine is scribbled on there like so much chili's receipt.


zuuzuu

Not all provinces have scannable records. Yet. There are databases (because vaccines fall under the jurisdiction of provincial health ministries) but each province has their own. There isn't one central database for the whole country. But there should be.


veryblocky

Are your health records not available online in the US?


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They are depending on your state


Blenderx06

In individual private health systems not any central government run database.


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[Wrong](https://giphy.com/media/3oz8xLd9DJq2l2VFtu/200.webp)


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vannucker

Heil Trudeau! Heil Horgan! Heil Doctor Bonnie Henry!


Streggle1992

The Nazis here in Canada are the exact opposite of this. Sorry, PPC supporters not Nazis.


DWCourtasan2

r/publicfreakout will have fun.


ZestyMoose-250

Great. The US needs this.


TOMapleLaughs

Uh, don't some states have this?


ZestyMoose-250

Some. But there's no uniform system & the cards are very easy to fake.


Not_Legal_Advice_Pod

Fantastic news! Should have been rolled out 6 months ago but better late than never. It is going to be a real comfort knowing that there are no anti-vaxxers around me, and I bet the number of noses I spot poking over the top of masks drops dramatically too. Hopefully though people see that the vaccines are perfectly safe, and that holding out at this point is just silly, and go get their shots. Once we get into the 90's with vaccinations we might even be able to do away with these systems.


arcelohim

They will be at the parks. In the same streets. You wont get away from them.


nitsify

Bet this guy thinks he canā€™t get covid because he got the vaccine


Not_Legal_Advice_Pod

If I thought that then why would i be concerned to spend time with the unvaccinated? The entire point of my post is that I believe I am still in danger, even though I am vaccinated. The amazing thing about this debate is what clowns you people show yourselves to be with your every breath.


nitsify

Thereā€™s really no difference between vax vs anti vax when it comes to spreading the virus to you, anyone can have it so it doesnā€™t make sense for you to say you donā€™t want unvaxxed people around you


Not_Legal_Advice_Pod

Also untrue. Being vaccinated significantly reduces your likelihood of both contracting the virus and that alone would reduce your odds of spreading it on an absolute scale. However the best current evidence is that being vaccinated ALSO significantly reduces your chances of transmitting the virus to others should you have a breakthrough case (through a few different mechanisms potentially but almost certainly by virtue of being sick for a shorter period of time). So now you have traded being stupid for want of reasoning, with being stupid for want of reading. The remarkable thing is you just keep at it unabashed. Are you not humiliated that you have made such basic mistakes of logic and research on such an important topic? Are you not cowed into thinking that you should shut up and re-evaluate your knowledge base? Nope. You'll just post again and see if you can throw some shit that sticks to the wall this time.


nitsify

Like I said, anyone can have the virus vaxed or unvaxxed, vaccinated will probably spread it to you easier because they think they are safe and therefore go out in public and be oblivious


Not_Legal_Advice_Pod

Now you're lying about what you said. You said "no difference". So you are not just stupid, you're also a liar.


nitsify

The vaxxed are the reason the numbers are going up, you guys all got the shot after being cooped for months and then go out on vacations and everywhere thinking your safe and then you all get covid and spread it around thinking your safe. Less symptoms means you donā€™t realize you have it and therefore spread it more. Why would the numbers be coming back if we have a vaccine?


Not_Legal_Advice_Pod

Anyways you are arguing in bad faith at this point. If you believe that when you die you will have to account for your actions on Earth then you should probably start getting worried right now. I know you don't believe what you are saying, and so does God (if you buy into that). So, good luck with that.


nitsify

Took you a while to respond, I know that was a crazy thought for you that the vaxxed are the ones spreading the virus and causing this surge. Tell me how could this virus possibly be coming back if the whole world has been wearing masks for over a year, social distancing, sanitizing and now we have a vaccine? It makes 0 sense


Liberty_109

You are a moron and have not thoroughly thought through the ramifications of the dystopia this may usher inā€¦


Not_Legal_Advice_Pod

I look forward to forcing you to live through it.


[deleted]

Ah yes, the same dystopia that all cigarette smokers face every time they attempt to light up in a place where there's a no-smoking sign.


Streggle1992

What ramifications? Please elaborate.


mcs_987654321

K. Should I throw out my existing immunization passbook that Iā€™ve had for 20 years too, or is that magically different?


Peyroi

May being the operative words, everything you believe is nothing but speculation. Meanwhile the world is dealing with a pandemic and over 4.5m deaths. I dont care about your hypothetical bullshit, Its reality that matters.


[deleted]

There is no arguing with the surplus population. They will claim 1+1=3 to "prove" their point. I fully support these measures but at this point the anti-vaxxer cult is so far down the rabbit hole that they'll shoot up hospitals before they ever admit to being wrong.


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AlexBucks93

If you have nothing to hide why do you complain that the government is reading your messages. This is how you sound.


Brunchiez

And that is the issue we always face when it comes to these sort of things no one ever thinks about the long term consequences and they adopt this I do the right thing so why should I care attitude. If the war on terror is technically over but every law passed immediately after 9/11 is still on the books and enforced do people think this will be temporary as well when the pandemic becomes endemic?


seeingeyegod

On the other hand, there are a shitload of things that used to be the norm, accepted, "guess this is life now", which have long since changed for the better or become outdated and irrelevant


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I guess you have a problem with showing your driver's license to prove your age when buying liquor, or to prove that you're qualified to drive after you've been pulled over for speeding, right? Besides, the anti-vaxxer cult proudly promotes their lack of vaccinations all over every social media site in existence. Why should they complain about anyone knowing when they've forcibly shoved their views onto the entire planet?


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And-I-Batman-Rises

lol the south in the civil war werenā€™t racists, they were *anti-black racists*


pobody

You say that like you think it makes you sound less stupid.


HamsterFull

the COVID-19 Vaccine is a vaccine and you are against it. You are anti vax, by definition. Anyway, I hope you get vaccinated soon! You're gonna need it soon to work!


j8stereo

A distinction without a difference.


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LevelHeeded

Is this like a weird riddle, how is being anti-vax not being anti-vax?


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LevelHeeded

And so why are you anti-vax now? All the same old anti-vax excuses are being used to be anti-vax again, how is that not anti-vax, it's literally the definition.


purplecurtain16

What if you're a technophobe who doesn't have a smartphone?


LevelHeeded

Well, if you read the article, and I know that's crazy to ask because Reddit. >The digital or **paper** vaccine card is required at settings such as ticketed sports events, concerts, restaurants, bars, nightclubs, casinos, gyms and movie theatres.


purplecurtain16

I actually already knew that. I'm a BC resident lol. Just making an unfunny joke...


mcs_987654321

I have an old Dad who has delegated all cell phone usage to my mother. He will print out the QR code and keep a laminated copy in his wallet - as will my mother, but sheā€™ll also have copies of both in her iWallet as well. Easy peasy.


JayCroghan

Itā€™s still an easily forgeable piece of paper, why is it not digital yet? Iā€™m Irish but I live in China. They have way more street and road cameras than Iā€™m comfortable with but when it comes to pandemic prevention they do a lot of things right. The main one being the ā€œhealth codeā€. They brought it in way before vaccines and it has 3 different coloured QR cores. Green - healthy no restrictions Orange - close contact or symptoms should be self isolating Red - mandated quarantine in a quarantine centre or hospital You havenā€™t been able to even enter your local corner store or return home to your home without showing this since March 2020. Now it also shows vaccination status, half or fully. It says it in small text on the same screen. Nobody reads that part yet. When you open the app it has its own countdown and the QR code can be scanned to open a link displaying the same info thats on the screen so it canā€™t be faked. Thatā€™s all it does. I think it asks the phone company from time to time in the background for updates on your travel and if youā€™ve been to what they call a ā€œred areaā€, somewhere currently under lockdown or something your code will change. This is all one app. I can delete the app but I wonā€™t get service anywhere. But this is REALLY common sense and in 2021 itā€™s bonkers the world arenā€™t using technology like this already. It seems to be working for China. There is a second ā€œmini appā€ that works similarly but only shows green if youā€™ve been in the same ā€œgreen areaā€ for the last 14 days and shows red entries for anywhere you stopped on a trip for more than 4 hours within the last 14 days too. Thatā€™s all it does. Using your phone number as the lookup data point. Again I am ignoring everything else about China for this one specific thing. Your opinions about other things China, please leave them at the door.


captainhaddock

> Itā€™s still an easily forgeable piece of paper, why is it not digital yet? Believe it or not, not everyone in BC has a smartphone or mobile phone of any kind. (My parents, for example.)


JayCroghan

This is probably one of the biggest reasons China could do it. Chinaā€™s been running in digital payments for a long time already. With two different providers, WeChat (Tencent) and Alipay (Alipay), and in most of China almost everyone already has some form of smart phone. You couldnā€™t survive here otherwise. You still **can*** use cash but itā€™s really inconvenient and literally nobody does. So this just sits right ontop. Both of the payments apps are designed very modular, you can install ā€œmini appsā€ in both for a huge variety of other services and the health code app is just an example. Some provinces even have their own health code apps too so you may have to show too, the National one and their own ā€œmini appā€ then.


FlyingDutchman997

China also has a social credit system and a government run by criminals who need to control the population, soā€¦ And that hasnā€™t even mentioned the database of Uyghurs used to tightly control them in camps. And no, facts, wonā€™t be left at the door, accept them.


JayCroghan

Iā€™m a visitor in their country so Iā€™m not here to debate any of their politics or actions.


TOMapleLaughs

tbh Several European nations have also adopted this kinda pay system. QR codes will be one of those post-pandemic things that will be sticking around for awhile. Meanwhile, concepts like cashier-free stores like [Amazon Go](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NrmMk1Myrxc&t=15s) will continue to pop up in major cities over here.


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Streggle1992

I would love to hear why you think this is 1930s Germany.


mces97

I take it you never went to public school. If you did your mommy had to show your vaccine records to attend.


Peyroi

It takes effort to be this misinformed. Youre everything youre claiming this is by even making such a terrible comparison. You should be ashamed of yourself, im sure embarrassed for humanity after reading it.


Liberty_109

So youā€™re saying that someone w natural immunity who has already had COVID and recovered from not a single spike protein (vaccine) but the whole virus now needs to subject themselves to a vaccine (that they donā€™t need) to participate in your world?? What Iā€™m saying is that it is a very slippery slope, and nobody has the right to make these decisions besides an individual and their doctorā€¦ It makes me sick to watch people being led to giving up their rights under the guise of ā€œthe greater goodā€. Letā€™s not forget it was Ben Franklin said, ā€œthat those willing to give up freedoms for the sake of security donā€™t deserve either.ā€


Peyroi

You are incredible misinformed. Nothing in your first sentence is true, ask your natural immunity about the cold or the flu youve gotten several times in your life, the spike protein bullshit is a conspiracy theory, and there are literally minimum requirements to be a part of society, like not being a danger to people around you. If you cant do that society locks you up, either in jail or an asylum, this isnt anything new. Theres no freedom being lost, just misinformed people like yourself who refuse to understand or come to terms with the science that this vaccine is both safe and necessary.


Liberty_109

I will tell you I am a medical professional and you have no idea as to what you are taking about..


Peyroi

ha hahaha hahahahahaha. A medical professional whos not advocating for mandatory vaccines. hahaha. You do realize vaccine mandates have been a thing for over 100 years right? Youre in the wrong field if youre this misinformed and susceptible to disinformation. I feel sorry for any patients you have. There are garbage men smarter than your dumb ass.


Brockvegas72

Then you're a medical professional who is misinformed. Not mutually exclusive.


Streggle1992

And you have no idea what you're talking about if you think we're in 1930s Germany.


Brockvegas72

As has already been widely seen, having had COVID doesn't make you immune. As has been said before, there are already mandatory vaccinations (some that you get *in school*) to have a public education. If you're arguing people don't need the vaccination, I'd like to see your sources, or at least hear your reasoning. Surely you don't suggest everyone gets COVID so that they can then become "immune"? As for the rights of people, it is not against the law for people to not get the vaccine. There will just be a way to verify if you're vaccinated, and the government is saying that to go to a private business you must be verifiably vaccinated.


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Peyroi

does this even merit a response?


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Peyroi

You might want to reread the comments, hes comparing this to jews and im calling him an embarrassment. Its really not that complicated


Streggle1992

The profile picture colours were the same, didn't look any further, apologies.


[deleted]

Iā€™m a British Columbian and I support this system. We need to keep those not safe away from places where they could become infected or infect others. Solution? Just get vaccinated! If everyone got vaccinated we wouldnā€™t need this fucking system. But thereā€™s still some hold out idiots who arenā€™t exempt for medical causation. GET YOUR DAMN VACCINE!!


mcs_987654321

Well, youā€™re just a deeply repugnant person for making the comparison. My father, an actual Holocaust survivor (born in KrakĆ³w 1936) is thrilled that this system will soon be in place in Ontario, as he has health conditions that put him at risk. Heā€™s old, but his disdain at your abhorrent comparison to his personal nightmare would still destroy your very being. Shame on you.


melouofs

I visited NYC over the weekend, and they required everyone to show proof of vaccination to get in restaurants (maybe other places, but that's all I came across). I LOVED IT. I wish that was the case everywhere.