CDC stated there will be no national US vaccine passport as they fear government involvement will be viewed as too heavy handed (feds especially). This will be a private sector project with some guidance from the White House at some point, but basically going to be up to the private sector to come up with a profitable model for vax passes.
Is this real? Are they just trolling us now?
The White House, meanwhile is ruling out the creation of a national “vaccine passport” for Americans to verify their immunization status, saying it is leaving it to the private sector to develop a system for people show they’ve been vaccinated. Some other countries are establishing national databases to allow vaccinated people to resume normal activities.
“We do know that there is a segment of the population that is concerned that the government will play too heavy-handed of a role in monitoring their vaccinations,” said White House COVID-19 adviser Andy Slavitt. He said officials are worried that “it would discourage people” from getting vaccinated if the federal government was involved.
The administration, instead, is developing guidelines for such passports, touching on privacy, accuracy and equity, but the White House has not said when those guidelines will be ready.
Not a big vax passport fan this early, but obviously a centralized system much better than having to deal with whatever number of systems we have and a profit model (probably free to consumer then charge the event organizer x amount a head I would think. Ticketmaster will probably pay $4 a head then charge the consumer $10)
And opening to everyone over 16 starting April 6th. No idea why NY thought it important to allow 30-50 year olds to have 1 week priority, but whatever.
This whole situation is like that meme of the guy on a bicycle who jams a stick into his wheel and yells “Scientists!” after he falls, only also in the first panel there are like a dozen science bros yelling at him to not jam a stick in his wheel and in the last panel the scientists fix his bike for him.
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And here I am in between those two states hearing stories about how the 50-59 age group just eligible today booked every spot in existence out to late April.
I’m “eligible” next Monday as a member of the 40-49 group, but am starting to wonder if I’m going to have to wait until May.
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I don’t know if the awesome Youtube interview show Hot Ones filmed during the pandemic but seems such a way to cheat.
Although if you can’t taste do you still get effects of burning? Seems like that is different.
The show has remained active.
Restaurants are some of the worst abusers.
Saw a TikTok today from a lady who said the restaurant, who pays their kitchen staff minimum wage 
is making servers raise their tip outs from 25% to 38% so the kitchen staff can make more. The restaurant is contributing zero more dollars to the kitchen staff they pay minimum wage.
Yup. “Woe is me! I can’t hire people for sub-poverty wages when they can get poverty wages for staying at home! And I have all these customers desperate to spend their money here! What shall I ever do?”
I mean, I get that being a restaurant owner isn’t necessarily the world’s safest or most lucrative position, but motherfucker, pay people more. Raise prices if you have to.
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We already require documentation of vaccinations for other stuff?
No comprende.
Just create a Vaccine Passport/ Gun License document two-in-one and be done with it.
When Trump wins in 2024 we will have a whole host of new required vaccines by 2026.
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It is definitely not an off-the-reservation suggestion that maybe it escaped from the Wuhan lab. It was all very well when they were making confident pronouncements like “oh yeah it originated in this wet market” and “probably from a pangolin”, but now things have reverted back to pure ASCII shrug emoji we should reconsider.
The lab is not merely in Wuhan, it’s just around the corner from the wet market where the outbreak was first detected (edit: not as close as I thought, it’s about 10 miles away). Under the supposition that it escaped from the lab, chances are extremely high that it would first be detected in that area. Under the theory it’s a natural outbreak, it’s a moderately remarkable coincidence. Wuhan has something like 2.8% of the population of the top-50 cities in China, all of which have over 2 million people. It’s also 1,000 miles away from the presumed source of the virus, meaning the caves in Yunnan province. What are the chances a naturally occurring outbreak would be detected not merely in Wuhan, but in close proximity to the only BSL-4 lab in China, where they are known to study coronaviruses? One in several hundred, maybe?
In a vacuum, a novel coronavirus outbreak is much likelier to have originated naturally than in a lab mishap. Several hundred times likelier? Not so sure about that.
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Hard to predict how Covid and variants will evolve – scientist
Prof Peter Openshaw, a member of the government’s New and Emerging Respiratory Virus Threats Advisory Group (Nervtag), says it is difficult to predict what will happen next with the evolution of coronavirus and new variants.
He tells BBC Radio 4’s Today programme: “What we really find hard to anticipate is in what way it’s going to evolve over the next few months, and particularly over the next winter, and how secure we’re going to be in terms of the level of immunity that’s been built up not only through vaccination, but also through natural infection in different parts of the world.”
Asked whether the worst-case scenario could potentially involve vaccinated people becoming ill from Covid-19 again due to the variants, Prof Openshaw says the evidence scientists had showed vaccines or immunity from previous infection was “very efficient at protecting against severe disease”.
However, he says there is “some concern” certain variants could be able to “replicate and pass from person to person" in those who have been vaccinated with the original vaccines developed to combat the strain first identified in Wuhan.
He adds: “So we need to move with all speed with the next generation of vaccines, which are now based on what is now proven technology but are using the new sequences of the viruses that are emerging, which are of concern.”
4 covid vaccine reaction complaints (all mild) today. Going to take that as a good thing. Also saw one of the covid toes for the first time, think that blacks out my bingo card. Annoying thing is that I can’t even talk about my craziest covid scenarios, would violate hipaa.
I’ll even spot them ‘everyone else is doing it (exploiting workers) so if I tried to do anything different I’d get destroyed’. That’s true enough even though it isn’t fully true.
But motherfucker if everyone in the industries costs go up you’ll be able to either keep prices the same and push more volume or raise prices and keep volume the same. Restaurant lobby types who resist higher labor costs for all are huge assholes.
Raise the price of a plate 2 bucks and suddenly the labor costs will make sense again.
THAT’S SOCIALISM
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I like free stuff.
God damn so many people I know are apprehensive about or straight up not getting the vaccine because “reasons.”
One girl was genuinely asking me yesterday how it was safe when daily mail is reporting deaths after getting the vaccine and the msm is “quiet about it.” I looked at the daily mail one and the source is complete garbage.
It does look like there’s been one or two mysterious deaths after getting vax that almost certainly had nothing to do with the vax itself.
I’ve had a few of these conversations lately and the only thing I can come up with is saying “look, the possible long term effects of getting covid are unknown and what we do know is kind of scary. Half a million people (and likely way more) are dead in the USA. Your odds are much much higher of dying or having complications from covid than from a bad vaccine reaction. Please get vaccinated.”
I’m not sure how well it’s working but I think I mightve convinced one of them.
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How many people got Astrazenica in the US and how many had complications? In Germany they start to limit the recipients again.