Obviously my argument is premised on the availability of the vaccine for free. I see no reason to assume this would stop being true in the US in the foreseeable future, though, and if the US population (and other developed nations') reached herd immunity, it would be much more likely that vaccine availability globally would be prioritized.
I don't, though? I believe that the US government will act to uphold capitalism, which requires trying to follow expert advice on public health. Do I think developed countries are going to actually do a good job of getting the vaccine to the rest of the world? Of course not. But the vaccine apartheid right now is in large part due to the fact that we haven't achieved herd immunity in developed nations yet. Getting past that hurdle will at least allow developed nations to do some half-assed shitty efforts towards global vaccination, mostly for the PR points they don't want to lose to Cuba, China, and Russia (the former two of which are where I pin my own hopes for eventual global vaccination, by the way). So I'm OK with vaccine passports as a means to get there, for the sake of marginalized people everywhere.
There are no restrictions for people who get vaccinated or have a legitimate medical reason not to do so. So honestly I don't see what the problem is.
Is it that hard to imagine a not too distant future where the vaccine is not widely or cheaply available?
This is already true in a lot of the world
Obviously my argument is premised on the availability of the vaccine for free. I see no reason to assume this would stop being true in the US in the foreseeable future, though, and if the US population (and other developed nations') reached herd immunity, it would be much more likely that vaccine availability globally would be prioritized.
Damn you really trust them like that. Wild
I don't, though? I believe that the US government will act to uphold capitalism, which requires trying to follow expert advice on public health. Do I think developed countries are going to actually do a good job of getting the vaccine to the rest of the world? Of course not. But the vaccine apartheid right now is in large part due to the fact that we haven't achieved herd immunity in developed nations yet. Getting past that hurdle will at least allow developed nations to do some half-assed shitty efforts towards global vaccination, mostly for the PR points they don't want to lose to Cuba, China, and Russia (the former two of which are where I pin my own hopes for eventual global vaccination, by the way). So I'm OK with vaccine passports as a means to get there, for the sake of marginalized people everywhere.