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That’s not an easy way to enforce that! An easy way is just to have people check ids, like they’re going to do I assume -same way most of Europe is doing it.


Restaurants can't even hire enough people to actually keep their businesses open some days and on good days you'll see a sea of empty tables and a wait-list to get in and now they are supposed to have someone dedicated to checking IDs too? I guess the 16 year old at the front will perform that duty diligently too.


It's much, much easier for the government to exert control over the financial institutions than to ensure that businesses are checking IDs manually (many businesses will not bother, out of either principled disagreement or apathy).


> It's much, much easier for the government to exert control over the financial institutions

Citation needed. Europe has been rolling out proof of vaccination at high speed and with low costs associated.

Oh and yes, most business do bother and check thoroughly (scan of QR code which is proof of vaccination/recovered/negatively tested status, check ID matches name on certificate).

Control through financial instituations is not even possible, how so?




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