If it's vaccine certification today, what kind will be demanded tomorrow? Will the government demand an Alcohol-Free Passport, an I-Don't-Smoke passport, an I-Don't-Eat-Meat (or I-Do-Eat-Meat) passport?
Will we have to show "Proof of Correct Thought" certification? An "I-Read-Only-Ideologically-Correct-Books" license?
And how many other health tests and disease inoculations will we have to prove we've had, once we've got accustomed to the COVID one? Maybe the ordinary 'flu shot will be mandatory; maybe a proof of colonoscopy, or of a prostate exam.
Will nothing be too private, too intimate, not to be a matter of official surveillance and public declaration? And what about a Race Declaration? An "I Am a Racialized Person" certificate so as to get access to extra benefits?
"We have a right to know whether we're sitting next to an un-vaccinated person," said a person calling in to a radio show. Maybe the solution would be a badge people could wear on their lapel -- like the pink ribbon and white ribbon -- to indicate their vaccine status to strangers. GREEN would mean vaccinated, RED not vaccinated, and YELLOW means "I'm not saying".
That way people could know whether to sit next to you on a bus -- or they could move.
