My mother had a 'vaccine passport' from decades ago. So why are we so averse to the idea now?

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

Opinion by Karen Tumulty

Our family wasn’t much for heirlooms.

My mother, especially in her years as a busy young wife of an Air Force officer, tended to shed things, rather than save and curate them, as we moved every year or two.

So when I was going through her belongings after she died in 2015, I wasn’t surprised to find that there were not very many artifacts of my early years.

One of the few items she thought was important enough to keep was a little yellow booklet, a small document with many addendums, held together by staples that rusted decades ago.

On the front cover, above my name, it says, “International Certificates of Vaccination as Approved by the World Health Organization.” Inside are page after page of records of the immunizations and boosters I received — for typhus, typhoid, polio, flu, cholera, smallpox.

There are those on the right today who would call this a “vaccine passport.” Demanding that people show evidence of their covid-19 vaccination status has become a front in the raging culture wars. States across the country are moving to restrict schools and other institutions from requiring people to demonstrate their vaccination status or immunity to the virus.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2021/07/20/my-mother-had-vaccine-passport-decades-ago-so-why-are-we-so-averse-idea-now/

[sinkingfeeling]

1. I have one of those from WHO. Got it a few years ago when I

began traveling to exotic places. Where my COVID-19 vaccination card is today.

[BigmanPigman]

2. Back in 1945 when the Nazi concentration camps were

liberated the people were sprayed with DDT or something like it to kill all the stuff that was transmitted between prisoners. They were more than happy to get sprayed and get their card stating so.

[soldierant]

3. I had one of those while on active dity

from 1966 to 1976. I may still have it ... but I'm too lazy to look. And I would think in any case, anything I got in or before 1976 I would need boosters for by now.

But at the time it was very handy. I may be imagining this, but I seem to remember it even had a place for my eyeglass prescription lenses details.

[SarcasticSatyr]

5. I also had one while in the Navy 1982 - 1986

and it seems like I have seen it recently ... maybe I stuck it in a folder, with my dd-214.

[LetMyPeopleVote]

4. We need vaccine passports and to exclude/shun assholes who refuse to be vaccinated

Link to tweet

[RussBLib]

6. why so averse?

Maybe because we are so divided politically. I think the Dems are just too cautious and afraid to aggravate the vast right-wing media factory. Timidity is not a winning hand. Boldness will pay more dividends.

[Ron Obvious]

7. I had one of those yellow booklets too

Although I'm sure I've lost it years ago.

I'm not averse at all to getting another and recording my Covid shots. What I will not do is install a smart phone tracker app. I don't really even want to own or use a smart phone in the first place, actually.