Juno News - August 31, 2021


What are you saying “yes” to when you approve of vaccine passports？


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Domestic Vaccine Passports have been introduced in some Canadian provinces, but what exactly are they? And how long will they stay in place? In this episode of the podcast, Dr. Kelly talks about what they are, why they should be introduced, and what they could become.

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00:00:00.000 A couple weeks ago, I put a couple questions to Canadians about vaccine passports and what they think they're saying yes to when they tell pollsters they approve of introducing domestic vaccine passports to Canada.
00:00:16.400 I said there were two big questions. One of them was, how many doses do you actually need to get the green light with these vaccine passports?
00:00:25.440 We saw that a majority of respondents and polls were saying, yeah, two thumbs up, bring on the vaccine passports. 0.99
00:00:30.420 But I felt like part of that was probably them just saying the vaccine passport was the government endorsing the choice that they had already made because a majority of Canadians have received two doses, double doses.
00:00:43.000 I was never confident about the phrase fully vaccinated that people used.
00:00:47.200 I tried in my writing and on videos and radio appearances to just say double doses because I thought, I'm not sure if it's going to stop at this.
00:00:55.440 And when you say yes to a vaccine passport, what actually are you saying yes to?
00:01:01.920 The other question I put forward, how long is this going on for?
00:01:05.700 Some people have told me, look, if we got to do this for a year or two just to get life back to normal, I'm OK with that.
00:01:10.860 OK, fine. That's an interesting perspective.
00:01:12.680 But is that actually what a domestic vaccine passport in your province will be?
00:01:18.140 For the most part, public health officials haven't actually clarified when they're talking about this.
00:01:22.620 The Quebec one, I think there's still a lot of confusion about how exactly it's going to roll out.
00:01:26.720 And yet it's rolling out pretty much imminently.
00:01:29.580 That's happening, you know, all throughout that province.
00:01:32.000 Pressure building for other provinces to do the same.
00:01:35.200 Interesting stuff happening in Israel right now.
00:01:38.640 Israel has now introduced a booster shot to, I believe it's everybody over the age of 60, 0.82
00:01:43.180 but they're planning on introducing it to two more age categories and their green pass,
00:01:48.100 which is what they call their vaccine passport.
00:01:50.080 Originally, the green pass was introduced and then they got rid of it.
00:01:53.140 They said there's no reason for it because vaccine rates all throughout the country had risen to a great degree.
00:01:58.600 They felt like it was mission accomplished.
00:02:00.000 Now they brought it back in and the green pass will soon require the booster shot as well.
00:02:06.080 And as Yahoo News was reporting at other news outlets, that the vaccine passport will sort of expire,
00:02:12.260 need to be renewed every six months.
00:02:15.560 Interesting stuff.
00:02:16.360 So is that going to happen here in Canada?
00:02:18.600 Is that going to happen in your province?
00:02:21.600 I mean, we just don't know because those details aren't really being spoken about.
00:02:25.180 When you listen to people talk about it, there's this manic energy around vaccine passports 0.92
00:02:29.080 that I think kind of glosses over all of those details.
00:02:32.220 So look, if you are fine with the fact that this is something that could conceivably expire every six months,
00:02:36.700 meaning unless you don't get a booster shot, you're going to be denied entry into whatever,
00:02:41.220 into the art gallery, the clothing store, the restaurant, and so forth.
00:02:43.740 If you're okay with that, so be it.
00:02:45.880 And okay with the fact that that could be in place for, I don't know, years to come
00:02:49.940 because nobody has said otherwise.
00:02:51.520 They haven't discussed sunset clauses where these things are automatically cancelled after, you know,
00:02:56.480 three years or what have you, unless they're renewed.
00:02:58.540 If you're okay with that, fine.
00:03:00.080 But let's not kid ourselves that there are just other questions.
00:03:04.480 There are other details, complications that need to be discussed, that need to be worked out,
00:03:09.500 that need to be acknowledged.
00:03:11.460 And the Canadian discussion around, we've got to bring in these passports ASAP, 0.98
00:03:15.380 I think there's a whole lot of people who have a whole lot of different perspectives on what it is.
00:03:20.120 And maybe when they find out what it actually does become, they might go,
00:03:23.820 well, hold on a second, that's not what I agreed to.
00:03:25.400 When I told a pollster I wanted it, that's not what I thought it would be.
00:03:28.580 So I think we have to just be still a lot more honest in our conversation about
00:03:32.420 what is this that we are planning, what is this we are discussing,
00:03:35.760 and what are the possibilities of what it could reasonably become.
00:03:39.400 Because Israel has shown you, yes, it can become a lot stricter
00:03:42.760 and something that needs to be renewed with a frequency that perhaps a lot of people here in Canada
00:03:47.900 just aren't expecting.
00:03:49.620 So calm things down, cool things down, maximum information should that not be the case,
00:03:54.880 and let's just talk it out a whole lot more.
00:03:57.080 This is not a thing that people should rush.
00:03:59.520 I'm not in support of domestic vaccine passports,
00:04:02.000 but even those who are, I think they need to talk it out a little bit better.