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As a Yank who has driven in Wales on off days during work trips, navigation sometimes came down to looking at a sign that said something like "Lhggfgdgthnbdbgdgfdvdhjdjdhdgdffdhnnbggd" and deciding, "eh, just turn right and see what happens."
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And not really difficult to pronounce. 
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OriginalGriff wrote: I think it's a damn good idea - and I don't really care what name they use.
Yes, me too. And, as an occasional concert/festival goer, I doubt I'll be attending anything without a requirement to prove attendees are Covid safe.
How come we are still in an age where politicians believe, (possibly, quite rightly), that we are too stupid to see when a word is being abused/misused? I know this is not, by any means, the first politicisation of a word, (e.g: you are not a 'patriot' unless you vote for me!), but it is a sad state of affairs. Not helped, of course, by the media who love a sound-bite they can sensationalise.
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And ... it's a perfect word if you want to leave the country for a holiday ... you may find it difficult to get into your destination without one!
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I often ask myself why the vaccine is not mandated world wide. Instead, it is voluntary in places. If the virus was so deadly then we all would have to take the vaccine whether we wanted to or not, to save the human race.
Perhaps COVID is deadly, but not as deadly as some would think/hope.
Perhaps governments know this, and know that having a COVID passport feeds into this madness and hysteria. The United States government will not mandate a covid passport. Instead, they are leaving it up to the individual States to decide - with most States not currently implementing or entertaining the idea.
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In the end it's probably going to come down simple commercial interests. Businesses, putting on events, need to attract as many people as possible. If they lose more customers who fear Covid, than those who fear loss of their liberty, they will probably be asking for Covid Passports. Those businesses also need to consider their health & safety responsibilities and the legal repercussions of not ensuring an event is safe for customers to attend. If a venue gets sued because someone died of Covid, the entertainment industry will be forced into implementing 'something' - because they won't get liability insurance without it.
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Me personally, I don't care either way.
The vaccine is a no brainer for me. I got the vaccine and I don't mind proving it if I have to.
I guess I will just sit back and see where New York goes with this...and the world. Popcorn and seltzer at the ready. 
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Slacker007 wrote: If the virus was so deadly then we all would have to take the vaccine whether we wanted to or not, to save the human race.
Even if the majority were to die from a virus, the human race would be "saved"; so that's not the issue. It's about minimising deaths as a result of the virus - and not just those directly attributable to the disease itself. If healthcare is so over-worked that giving birth, or breaking a leg, or having an asthma attack results in death then society would revolt, governments would be overthrown. If the same number of people die of a "novel" disease, there is a scapegoat (the virus) and life - in the wider sense - goes on.
But from a wider perspective, perhaps in order to save not only the human race but the planet in general, we need a "thinning down" of the human population. Current numbers are plainly unsustainable, yet any planned reduction in numbers (hopefully through reduced birth rate rather than anything else) is not yet something that can be comfortably spoken about in public. (And that has to change). But in any event, Covid is nowhere near deadly enough to make a noticeable impact on overall population levels, despite the tragic and painful loss of around 3 million lives so far.
As for "madness and hysteria", the only hysteria I've seen is from the deniers. Maybe it's different elsewhere...
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5teveH wrote: But do the Government think that, by using different words, no-one will realise what they are?
Why not? it works all the time. The whole concept of euphemisms plays to the same mental blind spot.
(I could also give multiple examples from all types of government, but that would be veering too close to politics.)
Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows.
-- 6079 Smith W.
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everything about the covid "passport" is politics. it has nothing to do with public safety.
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It is only about safety; and depending on where you spend your holiday you need more vaccines.
I don't understand what is so "scary" about this one.
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..the only reason I can think of to call it "scary", is politics. After all the succesfull vacination programmes, wiping our polio that put an Murican president in a wheelchair; why oppose public health and the limiting of transmisson?
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A rose by any other name would not smell quite as sweet.
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Having a passport is a good thing.
Not needing a passport is a better thing.
On that basis I would have to say that requiring passports is a bad thing, as it makes a 'better thing' worse.
And why would the public not be fooled by renaming Covid Passport to Covid Status Certificates? Ranaming things has always worked in the past. (Edited pre-post to avoid getting too political.)
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Because passport is a little to close to ID card, which is what they probably hope it will effectively become.
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Exactly.
Being asked for "papers, please" everywhere you go is the start of a slippery slope.
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5teveH wrote:
o the Government think
Interesting that you seem to believe they actually think.
BTW, here in Texas, they passed a law prohibiting that the COVID vaccine be required for anything!
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I could imagine there are legal reasons. The word passport probably does have legal implications.
Over here it won't happen, it would be against the Constitution, just like curfews and lockdowns.
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Jörgen Andersson wrote: Over here it won't happen, it would be against the Constitution, just like curfews and lockdowns.
That's what Executive Orders are (mis-)used for. Sure, it's unconstitutional, but by the time it's been challenged in court and struck down, it's usually moot.
Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows.
-- 6079 Smith W.
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We don't have executive orders, those are also against the constitution.
The obvious drawback is that it makes everything pretty slow.
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I have started working with computers from 1995.
I joined this codeproject since 2000. Even not visiting this site frequently like before but visiting whenever i need any sample code 
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Have you finished your version of Farcebook with the codez we gave you yet?
I have lived with several Zen masters - all of them were cats.
His last invention was an evil Lasagna. It didn't kill anyone, and it actually tasted pretty good.
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CodeWraith wrote: your version of Farcebook
Fakebook? 
Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows.
-- 6079 Smith W.
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Das Fratzenverzeichnis.
I have lived with several Zen masters - all of them were cats.
His last invention was an evil Lasagna. It didn't kill anyone, and it actually tasted pretty good.
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I bet he just finished his version of MySpace, it will be a huge success 
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There are few regulars from before 2002, congrats !
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