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"Chris Green" wrote in message
You don't need a vaccine passport, just like you don't need an
internet connection. It helps, and definately makes modern life easier,
but it is not essential.

I still have my vaccine passport as issued by WHO 50 years ago, with my
Yellow
Fever etc jabs duly noted in it.

Yes, why can't we have something like that? It would have to be
updated a bit to make it more difficult to forge/fake but otherwise
should be OK.

At the moment I still don't understand how one's "vaccine passport"
(on a phone, or a piece of paper, or whatever) is going to be
validated.

Same way that electronic passports and drivers
licenses are, confirm with a central database.

Confirm *what* with a "central database"? The DVLA's purpose is to
know about my driving license and what's on it.

Is there a similar place where one can find out who has been
inoculated against what? I'm not totally convinced that the NHS is
capable of doing this, it's very difficult often to get records from
one hospital to another or from one's GP to hospital and vice versa.

Given that Covid-19 inoculations may be given by different
organisations will they really all be recorded in one, accessible,
place?


The old yellow fever (and other) ones were officially stamped
at the time one was vaccinated but there seems to be no
similar system to 'prove' one has been Covid-19 vaccinated.

Thats what the electronic vaccine passport does.

No one 'offically stamped' anything that I was aware of when I got my
Covid-19 inoculation. Maybe they did but the checking of identity
wasn't very rigorous, nothing like the requirements for a passport.


.... and how do you prove you are who you say you are from your mobile
phone?

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Chris Green
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