Tuesday, August 10, 2021

France, Italy Have Imposed A Strict Covid-19 Vaccine Mandate

French establishments that don’t check patrons’ health passes risk a €1,500 fine. Photo: Benoit Tessier/Reuters 

 WSJ: France, Italy Impose Strict Covid-19 Vaccine Mandate 

Restaurants and bars are among places asking for digital vaccination certificates 

PARIS—Julien Zerbos turned away some would-be diners on Monday from the brasserie on Paris’s Champs-Élysées where he works because they didn’t have the European Union’s new digital health certificate. 

France began requiring the passes, which certify that somebody has been vaccinated against Covid-19, on Monday for people seeking to dine at a restaurant, whether indoors or outdoors. The pass is now also necessary to take domestic flights and long-distance busses and trains. France already made the pass mandatory last month for a host of other activities such as entrance to museums, pools, gyms and large sports events. 

“Some customers say they got the vaccine but didn’t come with the health pass, and we have to say sorry, we cannot accept you,” said Mr. Zerbos, who works as a host at Fouquet’s in Paris. “We can get in serious trouble if we accept someone without the health pass.” 

Italy also made the digital health pass mandatory for a range of activities last Friday, although the unvaccinated can still dine at restaurants if they sit outdoors. The certificates, known as the green pass in Italy and health pass in France, display a personal QR code that shows if a person is vaccinated, has recovered from Covid-19, or has freshly tested negative for the virus. 

France and Italy are at the forefront of a European trend toward rules that effectively separate populations into the vaccinated and the unvaccinated, and that make the resumption of normal daily life easier for the former. Governments are hoping that the new rules will push more people to get vaccinated and tamp down the spread of the highly contagious Delta variant, preventing a return to lockdowns later this year.  

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WNU Editor: I live in Quebec, Canada, and the plan is to mandate a vaccine passport in September if the current Covid wave gets worse. I have already received my proof of vaccination that I can download on my smart phone. 

My prediction. 

I would not be surprised if most Western countries will be implementing some form of vaccine certificates this winter.

5 comments:

Anonymous said...

Death to tyrants
No ifs, no buts, no coconuts

Jac said...

I don't know about Italy, but for France the pass include private data which have nothing to do with COVID. It's only a way to track people as in China.

Anonymous said...

So a vaccinated person can only catch covid from and unvaccinated person?

Anonymous said...

"The largest decrease in hesitancy between January and May by education group was in those with a high school education or less. Hesitancy held constant in the most educated group (those with a Ph.D.); by May Ph.D.’s were the most hesitant group. While vaccine hesitancy decreased across virtually all racial groups, Blacks and Pacific Islanders had the largest decreases, joining Hispanics and Asians at having lower vaccine hesitancy than whites in May."

https://www.upmc.com/media/news/072621-king-mejia-vaccine-hesitancy

Anonymous said...

Don't take the shot, they'r targeting you for depopulation