Former Democratic presidential candidate and founder of the non-profit Humanity Forward, Andrew Yang, has called for a digital coronavirus vaccine pass system where people download bar codes to their phone to prove their vaccination status.
Yang added that it would be "tough to have mass gatherings like concerts or ballgames without either mass adoption of the vaccine or a means of signaling" and compared his proposed system to bracelets that show a person is negative and all them to "interact more freely."
Yang's suggestions were met with heavy pushback with numerous Twitter users noting that historical attempts to publicly mark people have proved extremely dangerous. Other Twitter users also highlighted that such a system would have dire implications for individual freedom and privacy.
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