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ITALIANS DO IT BETTER....NOT: THE VACCINE PASSPORT FRACAS

ITALIANS DO IT BETTER....NOT: THE VACCINE PASSPORT FRACAS.     1. EU Green passport was conceived to allow EU citizens to cross internal borders in a relatively hassle-free way;  2. mainly two countries are enacting forms of “Internal vaccine passports” or are in the process, France and Italy;  3. However, the limitation pertaining the Passport are similar if not identical to those imposed in neighboring countries NOT adopting compulsory passports / phone apps, see Austria.  4. Given that, not only the vaccine passport per se is useless, but it opens the gate to instruments technically able to act as a stealth “Social Credit system” à là China, with ominous undertones.     The EU Covid passport , enacted on July 1st, was an attempt to give a standard way for citizens and visitors to cross borders and use long range transport under a standard certification and with a conformity of treatment irrespective of the border being crossed. The second part rapidly went out of the window : g