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What is preventing the US from putting a QR in those cards as many other countries?
Best form of civil disobedience for these authoritarian and I would argue unlawful government mandates.
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I am amazed that anyone would spend hundreds of dollars to get replica of a handwritten paper card with zero security features of which there are millions of originals floating around. I guess the people who don't really understand how vaccines work also overlap with with people who don't understand how paper cards with no security features work.
Does it feel like it was pretty deliberate that these vaccine cards were designed in such a way as to be relatively easy to fake - or at the very lease, not designed to be hard to copy. I'm always impressed when I go to Mexico about the quality of the immigration card with the embossed/hologram like headers, that you get. If vaccine cards had looked like that it would have reduced counterfeits significantly. I'm 100%…
This will obviously happen when there is no enforcement against it. If the last two years showed us anything it’s that the federal and state governments are all talk when it comes to COVID and can’t be bothered to enforce any of their so-called mandates. You know what would help fight these forgeries? Visible consequences for producing and possessing them.
How would you propose we start doing that?
1. Go back in time and use one or more anti-forgery features of drivers licenses to at least make them hard to forge
2. Hold retailers accountable who fail to check or accept a forgery (like we do for liquor stores checking ID)
3. Consequences for possession of forged documents
4. Find and go after producers of them. This can’t be hard—the police could probably find quite a few just with a web search.
Validating seems to be so lackluster that I'm not sure fake card producers are even an issue currently. Any time I've had to validate my vax status in order to get into some establishment, either a crappy photocopy or a digital photo of the card on my phone has been accepted without even blinking. Typically they don't even look at the info, they just see you wave something that looks vaguely right at them and they're…
Yea, this is a problem, too. Know why liquor stores [generally] scrutinize IDs carefully when someone who looks young tries to buy alcohol? Because there are actually legal consequences to them for getting it wrong that governments love to enforce.
What is preventing the US from putting a QR in those cards as many other countries?
The qr code idea in Europe works together with your id. Americans don't want to use ID even for voting, hard to expect to have working vaccination card program. Hence they're left with random papers and the problem on hand.
*many liberal Americans
As long as there's some mechanism to identify the fraudulent cards people can be held accountable for trying to pass off a fake as the real thing. Making, selling, or using a fake vaccination card is a felony. Can just anybody call up say, Walmart and verify if a vaccination card supposedly filled out by them is authentic? If not then that's the issue. Not the fact that fakes exist.
Yes, let's just make everyone's private medical info even less private! That's the ticket!
Best form of civil disobedience for these authoritarian and I would argue unlawful government mandates.
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