Well, there were many months that could have been spent preparing, or, at least, you know finding out the measurements of a card that will fit in a wallet… I mean, other countries created vaccination centers and staffed them ahead of time, so they’d be ready when vaccine became available. We could theoretically have preprinted a bunch cards with a hologram or something if we’d wanted to have something a tiny bit more secure.
I’m not sure if we need to have that, but if we wanted it, we could have had it ready.
That seems really unlikely to me. What situations might require proof for which state records would be a satisfactory proof? What if you are not currently in the state where you were vaccinated? What if the state bureaucracy has messed up record-keeping? I find it hard to envision what someone might ever be prevented from doing because some state record of vaccination does not exist.
Clearly different in different states. And businesses don’t need to be given the power to ask for it, if it’s tied to something like masking. I.e., show proof of vaccination or you’re required to mask.
We have printed these for patients half a dozen times or so since the mask mandate change. Most of them are asking for employer or travel. Oregon is tracking them on the vaccine database, so they are easily confirmable.
Only about a third of Americans have passports in the first place; rather fewer travel abroad in any given year, and I expect the percentage who want to share health information with foreign governments to be even lower.
At least one state has already forbidden businesses from requiring proof of vaccination.
Foreign Government will say share your vaccine status or bugger off from out country.
They are not going to care as to American desires in this matter.
Yep. Probably the only vaccination I can prove that I have ever had is the smallpox vaccine… because it leaves a distinctive scar which I still have 55+ years later.
They needed a way to designate that the user got the vaccination.
Making a website or tracking system, in the government, would take three years.
A form, and a pen, was immediately available. And accessible to everyone.
Simple answer.
The fact that a business has the power to set such a policy doesn’t mean that the government needs to set up counterfeit proof vaccine IDs in order to effectuate that business’ policy.