France Passes Law That Makes A Coronavirus Health Pass Required For Dining And Travel
The law requires all workers in the health care sector to start getting vaccinated by Sept. 15, or risk suspension. It also requires a "health pass" to enter all restaurants, trains, planes and some other public venues. It initially applies to all adults, but will apply to everyone 12 and older starting Sept. 30.
To get the pass, people must have proof they are fully vaccinated, recently tested negative or recently recovered from the virus. Paper or digital documents will be accepted. The law says a government decree will outline how to handle vaccination documents from other countries.
Leadership means doing what’s necessary for the people, even when it is unpopular with selfish idiots. If the US had taken a much more appropriately aggressive approach to the virus when China warned us, then hundreds of thousands would still be alive. We didn’t block enough travel. We didn’t test enough. We didn’t trace. We didn’t quarantine quickly enough. We didn’t mandate masks consistently. And we aren’t vaccinating enough. The consequences of all that are now obvious, even to many Яepublicans.
Restricting activities based on vaccination status is a necessary step during a life-threatening pandemic, and, let’s not forget that the vaccine is being given away free. But since 1/3 of the population was already infected by the plague of conservative misinformation, we’re not going to take the sensible modern steps needed to stop the virus. It’s like we’re trapped in an empty shopping mall during the zombie apocalypse and we’re only blocking ½ the entrances, because some survivors are irresponsibly stupid.
I have no doubt that well-informed folks here will tell me that a Covid health pass isn’t going to happen here, that it would be struck down in the courts, and worse that it would be bad politics, but I’m sick and tired of being sick and tired. Are we even going to try to stop waves 3 and 4? If we keep letting selfish idiots stop good policy, then we will continue to die of preventable illnesses, we will lose our democratic rights, we will have more gun massacres, and we may doom all life on Earth in our generation. So when are we going to stop cowering to corrupt conservative liars and start leading?
Rant done. Have a nice day.