Tuesday, September 07, 2021
September 7 2021. Tuesday
It was bound to happen. Vaccine passports. They are coming to us sometime soon.
We will have to show we have been vaccinated to enter various places, and activities.
Some of the Canadian provinces have their passports already.
It will be a typical Canadian jumble sale at the moment.
Canada will end up with around 12 or 13 passports if we include the territories.
We will have that jumble till Canada gets around to a national passport by New Year…. Maybe
Just to be clear here. The Musical Director and I are in complete agreement that the time has come for such a passport. I have no problem with the passport.
My problem is going to be with the cell phone.
Being the demographics we are, ie OLD, we still watch news on the television via our cable subscription. And that news has been full of newscasters showing us how their provincial vaccine passports work on their cell phones.
“Oh look” I said to the Musical Director. “We are going to have to get one of those blog things on our phones”
“How do we do that”? I asked
“I do not know” came the unhelpful reply.
“I think those things are called QPS” I said.
“NO wait! “I tell myself, laughing right out lour.
“QP’s are something quite different, and QP does not refer to a quarter pounder at McDonalds.”
I wonder to myself,”Now that we can buy legal weed on every corner in Toronto, if such purchases require the same vernacular.? Do people still buy their weed by the ‘ QP’?”
I do not know, but I am pretty sure those blobs are not called QPS
Into Google I type
“What are those blobs in the middle of squares called”?
“Q R”s”, says Google.
“That’s it” I shout out to the Musical Director
“They are called Q R’S For Quick Response. “
I do use my cell phone quite a bit really . It is where I turn when I wake up in the night. It is then I catchup on my reading; The Washington Post and The Guardian, both Uk and Australian versions, and lots of columnists on twitter.
I listen to podcasts on my phone (Current favourite is the Curse of Politics every week day morning)and I listened to audiobooks on my phone as I march around the living room for those ten thousand steps
Oh yes, my cell phone gets a lot of use. Just not for phoning. I never have the ringer on. I will respond to texts and messenger sometimes, but do not bother calling to speak to me.
We still have a land line for that.
My problem comes when I read the phrase “ download to your phone”
You know that little feeling you get, the kind that makes your hands a bit wet? The feeling you get when that little tickle starts to run down under your collar?
“Download” does it every time. I already have enough apps on my cell phone screen, It is already a complete mass of confusion. Into this mess we will now have to start adding blobs?
Still there may be something in the wind. I heard on the news that in Quebec and Manitoba where those vaccine passports are already in use, stores have run out of plastic covers and print shops are out of laminate for the vaccination cards.
Those good Double Vaccinated citizens are showing their vaccination certificates in something they have printed off, Something they can carry .. in their wallet or their purse.
This thought gave me great comfort
In this great land of ours, this Canada, there are thousands out there just like me.
They are not one bit adverse to the vaccine, or the passport to prove their vaccination.
It’s just the phone and that blob .
Amazon.ca has plastic vaccine certificate covers. My order is on the way.
New system and thanks for reading along.
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