On 2021-05-02 12:27 p.m., Cindy Hamilton wrote:
> On Sunday, May 2, 2021 at 10:37:20 AM UTC-4, Lucretia Borgia wrote:
>
>> Mentioning passports I am perplexed by this 'no vaccine passports' by
>> the antivaxxers. Forever and a day one had to have doctors
>> certificates to show one had Yellow Fever, Typhus, ParaTyphoid,
>> Smallpox vaccination etc in order to travel between Hong Kong and the
>> UK.
>
> Approximately 42% of Americans have a passport. I've never had one.
> The last time I traveled to Canada, I didn't need one.
>
> OTOH, I'm not averse to the idea of a vaccine passport.
>

You don't really need a passport to get into Canada... but you do. They
want to make sure that you can get back into the US. Canadians never
had to have passports to get into the US. Thad requirement came in the
wake of 9/11 when a bunch of Saudis and Yemenis entered the US with
passports and visas and attacked the World Trade Centre and the
Pentagon. I guess the idea was that making us have passports would
make them safer, like the way it worked for the terrorists.