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| DATE | 2020-11-29 |
| FROM | Ruben Safir
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| SUBJECT | Re: [Hangout - NYLXS] [ Docs ] the real end of the free world...
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Here is an idea. Carry a paper vaccination record in your pocket which
is signed and stamped by your MD and the local dept of health.
LOOK MA - no tracking ..
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More on the details of this from Bloomberg...
supposedly they will store no data... which is bullshit because they are
tracking you and your phone tracks you.
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-11-23/airline-lobby-is-building-a-covid-travel-pass-to-spur-flights?sref=yLCixKPR
bloomberg.com
Covid Passports Seen as Key to Resuming International Travel
Charlotte Ryan, Tara Patel
5-6 minutes
Global airline lobby IATA is working on a mobile app that will help
travelers demonstrate their coronavirus-free status, joining a push to
introduce so-called Covid passports to speed up the revival of
international travel.
The Travel Pass will display test results together with proof of
inoculation, as well as listing national entry rules and details on the
nearest labs, according to the International Air Transport Association.
The app will also link to an electronic copy of the holder’s passport to
prove their identity.
A test program will begin with British Airways parent IAG SA this year
before arriving on Apple Inc. devices in the first quarter of 2021 and
Android from April, IATA said. Travelers will be able to share their
status with border authorities or present a QR code for scanning.
“We need to have global rules and standards” on measures like rapid
testing and vaccination so there can be a “step forward” for the
industry, Pieter Elbers, the head of the Dutch arm of Air France-KLM,
said in a Bloomberg TV interview Tuesday. The health advances “will
definitely help to restore confidence in travel.”
Qantas Airways Ltd. said a Covid-19 vaccination will be a necessity for
its international passengers when approved and distributed. Chief
Executive Officer Alan Joyce told Channel 9 in Australia he has
discussed the idea with other airlines, and it’s likely to become a
pre-boarding requirement around the world.
“It’s going to be a common theme across the board,” Joyce said.
While international travel remains in the doldrums amid a patchwork of
local restrictions and lockdowns, countries are beginning to embrace
testing to shorten or do away with quarantines for arriving passengers.
The first vaccines are meanwhile expected to become available in coming
months. That’s prompted a spate of technology-led moves to devise
mechanisms to monitor travelers’ Covid credentials and combat false
claims from people desperate to fly.
In the U.K., the industry also got a boost from the government’s
decision to chop the 14-day quarantine for arrivals to England from
high-risk countries by almost two-thirds if they take a coronavirus
test. The easing of the restrictions starting Dec. 15 will come just in
time for the Christmas holiday rush.
England Offers Travelers Shortened Quarantine With Covid Tests
IATA’s head of passenger and security products, Alan Murray Hayden, said
in a briefing that the group’s aim is to get people into the air again
and it would be happy to work alongside other providers.
Daily traffic at checkpoints tracked by the Transportation Security
Administration
Travel Pass will be free to travelers and governments, with airlines
paying a small fee per passenger to use the service. It will be based on
the existing IATA Timatic system long used to verify documents. The app
will use block-chain technology and won’t store data, Murray Hayden said.
The industry group has had positive discussions with one government
around using the software and expects other nations to get on board, he
said.
More Apps
Though IATA’s plan remains in development, the CommonPass app developed
by the World Economic Forum and non-profit Commons Project Foundation
has been tested on flights between London and New York, while the
AOKpass from travel security firm International SOS is in use between
Abu Dhabi and Pakistan.
Both are in the running for the pending travel bubble between Hong Kong
and Singapore, according to the companies.
United Airlines, which is conducting the U.S.-U.K. trials, said Monday
it would extend Covid-19 testing to flights from Houston to destinations
in Latin America and the Caribbean. Passengers can take a
self-collected, mail-in test, allowing them to start their vacation or
meetings immediately on arrival.
The race is on to establish a global standard and deploy technology so
the travel industry can get back on its feet, International SOS
co-founder Arnaud Vaissie said in an interview.
“There is massive pent-up demand,” he said. There’s also “tremendous
fear about traveling and this is what we are trying to mitigate.”
Read more: How Safe Is Flying in the Age of Coronavirus?: QuickTake
— With assistance by Angus Whitley
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that Brooklyn, like Atlantis, reaches mythological
proportions in the mind of the world - RI Safir 1998
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DRM is THEFT - We are the STAKEHOLDERS - RI Safir 2002
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Being so tracked is for FARM ANIMALS and extermination camps,
but incompatible with living as a free human being. -RI Safir 2013
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