French patrons can face up to 6 months in prison for lacking Covid pass

by briefcommenton 8/9/2021, 3:41 AMwith 5 comments

by arthurcolleon 8/9/2021, 4:00 AM

My perspective as a dual citizen French/American tech worker living in the US: the fact that there aren't digital Apple Wallet/smartphone covid passes is such a joke. Farcical levels of stupidity, something you'd read in an 'Idiot Hero' trope novel. It is such a failure to capitalize on the available technologies at our disposal as a global society.

Instead I have a piece of shit paper document from the CDC that isn't even a standard business/credit/debit card size (!) so it is already in tatters, with a grease stain (my dynamic life has failed me). Nowhere even asks for it, so enforcement is a failure in and of itself. The vaccine should be mandatory and there should be a sleek digital pass so I can not have one extra piece of paper to carry around because of inept structural decisions around how to implement a post-pandemic lifestyle. So stupid, I don't know how these social planners have jobs.

by vanusaon 8/10/2021, 8:08 PM

More correctly: they can face a prison sentence (in extreme cases) or more likely a fine for entering a venue under false pretenses. Not simply for "lacking a pass".

Flagging for the clickbaity, and misleading title.