03-30-2021, 12:03 PM
(This post was last modified: 03-30-2021, 12:39 PM by backsidebaggie.)
(03-30-2021, 11:58 AM)baggy1 Wrote:(03-30-2021, 11:45 AM)backsidebaggie Wrote:(03-30-2021, 11:20 AM)Borin' Baggie Wrote:(03-30-2021, 08:07 AM)baggy1 Wrote: Playing devil's advocate here, what would be the issues with digital id? We all manage our finances online now; we can all have our location tracked through phones, watches etc; your NHS record can be managed online, appointments, history, repeat prescriptions etc; we carry photo ID in the form of a driving licence and we have our foreign travel monitored through digital passports - why is there such a push against digital id?
If I want to be anonymous and am not doing anything wrong then I don't deserve to be treated like a criminal. Anonymity is a right.
Spot on. The funny thing is the government have dangled the carrot of get your vaccine for freedom back. Then moved the goalposts and you still can’t go on holiday! But on the more serious point, getting the vaccine to obtain a digital ID is not freedom. That’s the trick. Some people are being duped into it through fear of covid IMO.
The going on holiday part is not to do with the UK government, it will be to do with the country being travelled to and the airlines I would imagine. I would be reluctant to be letting foreign travel go ahead until later in the year though with the case numbers over there.
Not true if holidays are delayed past 17 May (the provisional date in the roadmap). A number of countries have already said they will accept U.K. travellers (inc Turkey, Greece, Portugal) with a vaccine or negative test. A number of airlines have said the same. The airlines are literally desperate to get foreign holidays going again. If foreign holidays get delayed, that’s the governments decision. I’m not debating the right or wrong of it, but it’s on them if it gets delayed again, not the countries or airlines.