im fairly disappointed by people who generally identify as libertarian leaning yet support vaccine mandates and passports without explicitly grimacing about the implications for government power and considering the actually implementability of these policies
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"i dont trust the government to function well and i dont trust the government to not be evil using a class of powers that they adopt for some arguably desirable end" ok well have you fucking considered what is involved with forcing a medical treatment on your entire population
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1. ability tracking vaccine status is a fucking mess, as far as i can tell there are 50 states each with their own program, god knows how many distributors data quality nightmare doesnt matter if you just need analytic quality data but your talking about punitive measures here
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many of these tracking agencies exist in states controlled by people who have zero interest in mandating anything and i expect will be happy to use any opportunity to ratfuck california (bless them)
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there is also the issue that vaccine cards seem trivially easy to fabricate and the more aggressively you punish noncompliers the more incentivized they are to lie to you i see no approach to resolving this
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so ok maybe youre fine with this and you dont care about fabrication but at that point you might as well admit that your policy is forcing people to claim they have the vaccine which all right i guess you can do that if you want. i also support all kinds of useless ideas
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2. lets say that you manage to create a vast and uniform national apparatus for reliably tracking the medical status of every person in the country in real time, crushing opposition from states, appropriate for precisely identifying individuals to exclude from public life
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Replying to @eigenrobot
When the Social Security system was established a provision of the legislation was that the number couldn't be used as a national identification system. So, yeah.
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2037: "I'm sorry, sir, your health passport app shows your BMI is 30.1. You are barred from purchasing that candy bar."
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