Tonight it has been announced that the rugby game will go ahead next weekend, so you have the full female rugby team and entourage flying in from France and not subjected to the mandatory quarantine, while the average Joe, vaccinated , showing a negative tests is facing a 14 day mandatory quarantine in a hotel at his own expenses. Where is the sense in all this ? A rule to prevent the virus from abroad which only applies to specific people but not others.
Where is the sense in all this ? A rule to prevent the virus from abroad which only applies to specific people but not others.
Exactly. Foreign officials, Truck Drivers, Essential workers etc can all travel here without going through quarantine.The government have to allow exceptions. If there were no exceptions, we’d effectively be following a Zero Covid approach.
There's a huge difference in the risk profile of an average Joe and those travelling with these rugby teams. Lots of people have been ignoring the risks and inconvenience of the restrictions on everyone else and going away on holidays, you want to trust some piece of paper they present to state they have been vaccinated?while the average Joe, vaccinated , showing a negative tests is facing a 14 day mandatory quarantine in a hotel at his own expenses.
Yes as it is done in other countries with e.g. Yellow fever vaccination.you want to trust some piece of paper they present to state they have been vaccinated?
Yes as it is done in other countries with e.g. Yellow fever vaccination.
They seem to have a QR code for digital verification - perhaps already too much high tech for Ireland though...Green pass: how are Covid vaccine passports working for Israel?
As hotels and gyms reopen in Israel, governments elsewhere are considering a similar certificate scheme – raising ethical concernwww.theguardian.com
QR Codes contain information or can be a link to a specific website - e.g. secure connection to a website hosted by the Israeli Health ministry confirming that person XY is vaccinated.You know anyone can create those QR codes, right? Unless they open their IT system and give the rest of the world access to their data, there is no verification.
That's the biggest challenge with the idea of Covid passports, how do you make the data available only to those who need it? How to you pollice shadow apps that just look like the real thing?
A secure global system would be unlikely to get universal approval, cost billions and take so long to develop that it would likely be obsolete before it's ready. If we look to develop a similar system for use here, I'd hope we give a little more thought to information security than Israel did.
QR Codes contain information or can be a link to a specific website - e.g. secure connection to a website hosted by the Israeli Health ministry confirming that person XY is vaccinated.
I have significantly more trust in Israeli Cybersecurity and capabilities than in Irelands ones but never mind.
State facing pressure from EU countries after expanding quarantine list
Greencore chief Patrick Coveney accuses Government of ‘incompetence and lack of foresight’www.irishtimes.com
"...including from Greencore chief executive Patrick Coveney ...
I do not see travel restrictions on EU countries to be in for the longer term.
Hasn’t Germany closed it’s borders with the Czech Republic?I wouldn't be surprised it is gone by summer if not earlier.
Ireland is the only EU country doing that.
It's not a complete border closure.Hasn’t Germany closed it’s borders with the Czech Republic?
Anyway, I agree with you. It’s like that silly “traffic light” system we had last summer. Or that other concept that never got off the ground (npi), was it air bridges or air bubbles or something.
This is something that should have been done 12 months ago, or before Christmas.
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