I feel like this could happen in two ways:

  1. People who have had early vaccines are allowed to do things in their own country that others are not
  2. People from COUNTRIES that haven't had a wide vaccine rollout are going to be discriminated against on the global stage (Oh you're from X country you can't come in)

(I also think we're already seeing "vaccination geopolitics" starting but that's another topic)

  • Yanqui_UXO [any]
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    3 years ago

    #2 is much more effective and wide-spanning than Trump's "Muslim ban" and it is already working. Didn't WHO project that countries in the Global South would only get vaccines in 2022 if that? And then it will turn out that their vaccines aren't good enough for some countries anyway (Israel, for example, does not recognize Covishield, Indian-produced AstraZeneca, as a legit vaccine with all the travel restriction consequences)

    edit: apropos, an article on vaccine passports from today