Here is the forthcoming problem with "Vaccine Passports";
How does the international community plan to address travel passports for those nations who either a) fail to provide passports to citizens, b) cannot financially afford to provide passports to citizens, or c) cannot logistically provide passports to citizens?
Take, for example, a country like DR of Congo. Much of their country is poor, remote, and uneducated. Even If the nation has the capability (financially and logistically) to deliver a vaccine, many of the people would still be unable to receive it due to their own personal limitations (lack of communication, transport, personal finances, etc).
There are millions of people around the world living in nations where vaccine delivery would be a very difficult accomplishment, even in 2021 with 1st world nation support.
Given this, "exemptions" would be needed to be made for these nations in order to ensure global travel equity. Failure to do so would be racist and classist.
Considering that those nations who would require a vaccine passport exemption... like the Democratic Republic of Congo (as an example), are in many cases the very same nations which are the birthplace of some of the deadliest viruses on the planet (Ebola in DR Congo's case), then the desired effect of a vaccine passport is eliminated, rendering the vaccine passport a completely useless piece of paper, except for limiting and controlling travel of those nations where the risk of viral emergence is negligible.
So the only way to ensure a viable and sustainable vaccine passport is to maintain racist and classist international policies which the WHO and UN are currently funneling the most of their money into combating.
Argument 1:
Here is the forthcoming problem with "Vaccine Passports";
How does the international community plan to address travel passports for those nations who either a) fail to provide passports to citizens, b) cannot financially afford to provide passports to citizens, or c) cannot logistically provide passports to citizens?
Take, for example, a country like DR of Congo. Much of their country is poor, remote, and uneducated. Even If the nation has the capability (financially and logistically) to deliver a vaccine, many of the people would still be unable to receive it due to their own personal limitations (lack of communication, transport, personal finances, etc).
There are millions of people around the world living in nations where vaccine delivery would be a very difficult accomplishment, even in 2021 with 1st world nation support.
Given this, "exemptions" would be needed to be made for these nations in order to ensure global travel equity. Failure to do so would be racist and classist.
Considering that those nations who would require a vaccine passport exemption... like the Democratic Republic of Congo (as an example), are in many cases the very same nations which are the birthplace of some of the deadliest viruses on the planet (Ebola in DR Congo's case), then the desired effect of a vaccine passport is eliminated, rendering the vaccine passport a completely useless piece of paper, except for limiting and controlling travel of those nations where the risk of viral emergence is negligible.
So the only way to ensure a viable and sustainable vaccine passport is to maintain racist and classist international policies which the WHO and UN are currently funneling the most of their money into combating.