Health Passport

[Cutedelicategay]

With COVID and vaccination in full swing around the world, we have all started talking about life after COVID and one of the important consideration is vaccine passports. I had posted earlier that we as a society failed to maximize on COVID crisis to get rid of STIs from our communities. However a health passport can still be a thing for people entering sex venues like ABS bathhouse etc? That way testing will increase and will lead to aggressive treatments and lessen the spread of STIs. Thoughts on this please? Please don't judge other people's choices but an intelligent discussion is something we can carry on in a mature way. 

[BootmanLA]

5 hours ago, Cutedelicategay said:

With COVID and vaccination in full swing around the world, we have all started talking about life after COVID and one of the important consideration is vaccine passports. I had posted earlier that we as a society failed to maximize on COVID crisis to get rid of STIs from our communities. However a health passport can still be a thing for people entering sex venues like ABS bathhouse etc? That way testing will increase and will lead to aggressive treatments and lessen the spread of STIs. Thoughts on this please? Please don't judge other people's choices but an intelligent discussion is something we can carry on in a mature way. 

I don't think a "health passport" would ever be required at a bathhouse, ABS, etc.  It would destroy their business model, not because they cater to people carrying infections (although there's certainly some of that present), but because they thrive on anonymity.

We've got lots of states (in the US, at least) that are passing laws, as we speak, that prohibit government offices from even asking about your vaccination status to transact business with them. They're passing laws that prohibit local governments from enacting any mandate for health protection stricter than whatever statewide mandate is in place - which is usually negligible by this point. In that environment, a private business like an ABS or a bathhouse, already operating somewhat on the fringes of public approval/acceptance, is hardly likely to stick its neck out and demand proof of vaccination.

What Covid proved is that a significant portion of this country, overlapping largely if not entirely with Republican voters, won't do anything to contain the spread of an infectious disease if it impacts their daily lives more than the slightest trifle. And if that "anything" they're asked to do comes in the form of a government mandate, they are even more obstinate that they won't. 

[FelchingPisser]

Steamworks in Chicago has just announced on May 22 they are re-opening on  June 15---to the vaccinated.  You must bring your proof of vaccination with you.

 

Here is the link to the twitter announcement: