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Seems a total non-starter to me. If the burden is not shared equitably then people are not going to comply with rules. There must be an incentive to stay in and immunity passports completely skew the calculation in favour of deliberately infecting yourself (and indirectly others).
Yep, it would be disastrous. If you give people who have had the virus a significant financial benefit for having had the virus, this provides an incentive to become infected. It would be naive in the extreme to think that in those circumstances some people won't try to deliberately get infected in order to obtain that financial benefit. Because bad things only happen to other people, right?
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Imagine the scenario, you're trapped in a 1 bed flat for the 4th consecutive month on universal credit, forbidden from exercising, and your neighbour is furloughed, has got his immunity passport and has taken on a second job part time at a supermarket and spends the other half of his time sat either in his garden or the newly reopened cafés and parks.
Seems a total non-starter to me. If the burden is not shared equitably then people are not going to comply with rules. There must be an incentive to stay in and immunity passports completely skew the calculation in favour of deliberately infecting yourself (and indirectly others).