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The immediate effect of such measure is the increase of people's mobility and the consequential economic boost. The side effect is the increase of segregation and inequality. Of course, people whose benefit from a covid passport don't care about this, because segregation and inequality don't affect them. The real question is if you agree or not with making poor people more miserable than they already are just to feel like it's already "normal" again.

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Agreed. And what kind of steps would a person who's had the shot have to go through to get the passport? Would it be internationally recognised. Who would administer it? How much would it cost the tax payers to admin it?

Australia spent > 80 million on the CovidSafe app, and AFIK its helped trace ~8 people.

> The side effect is the increase of segregation and inequality

aren't vaccines being administered based on "need" (age, being at-risk etc)? How does poverty enter the equation?

Speaking about my country, vaccines are being administered based on age and occupational hazard but there are no vaccines for all, so vaccines are being administered in privileged areas of big urban centers. If you live in a poor area of a big city, you are at your own; if you live in less developed areas or rural areas you are at your own too. So, yes, poverty is a big part of the equation specially when there are no vaccines for all.

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