Chat about Novel Coronavirus - 2019-nCoV - COVID-19

Luxembourg. Good plan last year, terrible vaccination plan which is now starting to come good.

Opened my NHS app this afternoon and my jab records are there. Is would appear vaccine passports are go

I believe it only shows up when you've had both jabs. It won't show anything if you've had one (or no) jab.

(Classic UK Govt U-turn though. "No we won't have vaccine passports...", "Oh look")

What stops me making an app that looks the same and claims I've had a jab or two?

Whereabouts in the app?

Open the app, click on “view your gp health record” then medicines then acute short term medicines

Nothing, other than the risk of prosecution for an immigration crime in another country if you used it and got caught.

Ah OK, I need to do something with my GP to enable online access to my health record.

immigration crime

I'm more interested in if vaccination passports are rolled out to things like pubs.

Sooner or later I expect something which can be verified (eg a QR code with a signed ID which can be checked against a database). From a privacy perspective that doesn't really matter when you are crossing a border since they already have your passport and the government knows you are travelling but might be less well received for a trip to Wetherspoons.

Just managed to book myself in for both jabs. Jana tried at same time and was told she's not eligible.

I'm more interested in if vaccination passports are rolled out to things like pubs.

Obtaining services by deception? Can't remember what the maximum sentence is for that one, but it's quite a few years.

Obtaining services by deception?

There is a long tradition of that in the pub. I'm sure I'm not the only one that lied about my age when I was 17.

People lie and cheat and aren't put off by potential sentences. They are influenced by perceived risk of being caught. I don't think the odds of being caught using a fake app or certificate in a pub are very high. Do you?

I'm half vaccinated and have my second shot booked so it doesn't really matter to me but I'm sure there are plenty of people that don't want to be vaccinated and would be prepared to cheat.

I'm sure I'm not the only one that lied about my age when I was 17.

I plead the fifth. Although by the age of 17 I was counted as one of the regulars at the Duke of Hamilton in Hampstead.

I don't think the odds of being caught using a fake app or certificate in a pub are very high. Do you?

Staggeringly unlikely I'd have thought, even if it was required, which I suspect it won't be.

I suspect as time passes most governments will have a system where you can check official documents with a 3d bar code. My covid tests and vaccination certificate comes with a bar code; you can then use an app to scan it and validate it with the government database. It's only about validating the document mind, not about my identity; I'd have to prove that separately.

Website now letting over 38's book

in language of your choice

So am I right in assuming that you must have chosen Lëtzebuergesch? :)

Depends what you want to do with it.

Most likely that if you get caught get your solicitor to claim that you are autistic, and it was ok to buy it in a pub.

Yeah France was brilliant last year IMO but fucked this year.

Is that a posh way of writing Luxembourgish?

@Oliver Schick is right, it's how the locals say the name of the language....

I can speak a bit of it, understand a bit more but it's strange (and quite hard for me to learn as an adult).

Being Australian and a banker really helps with foreign languages for native English speakers in my experience.

Just spent ages trying to get a slot for Jana. Took us a while to remember that she's only 37. Who says lockdown brain isn't a thing?

Did EXACTLY this with ms_com yesterday.

"WHY WON'T IT WORK!!!!! THIS IS BULLSHIT! oh"

I'm 36 and my wife is 37, she got a message this morning and I did this afternoon, both booked in for Saturday.

Die wiezeg Kerwischelschen isst ein Kieschelshen.

Or something like that, spelling is of course wrong.

(The white rabbit eats a cookie)