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Originally Posted by tuccillo
Go back and reread my posts. They have nothing to do with what you posted and everything to do with the differences between how the coronavirus and HIV are transmitted. Focus.
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Actually, jerseygirl08 seems to understand my exact point. There is no need to reread your posts, I readily acknowledge that you are missing the point.
If a vaccination passport is determined to be essential to protect us from today's virus of the month then it won't be long before it is determined to be essential to protect us from all communicable diseases.
Tuberculosis and meningitis are also transmitted through the air so they should be added to the vaccination passport too. Sure, the risk is low but with all the other precautions being taken and after having the COVID vaccination, the risk of contracting COVID is small too. If proof of vaccination against one is to be required then is it hard to imagine that being extended to require proof of vaccination against all?
While HIV is transmitted differently, who is to say I won't be exposed to blood through some minor accident with the wrapper on the peanuts or a scratch from the armrest or even something more severe like an item dropping from the overhead bin or a plane crash? Accidents happen and I may want to feel safe from even the remote possibility of contracting HIV. If it isn't too much to demand that I prove my COVID vaccination status then there will come a day when it won't be too much to demand that you prove your HIV status.
COVID is the today's super virus but it isn't the first and it won't be the last. We have to be careful that the efforts we propose to make us feel comfortable today aren't something that will make us feel very uncomfortable tomorrow. Once we make it easy to ______ it will also be easy to _____ but we may not like that as much.