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#14549011 at 2021-09-09 22:45:35 (UTC+1)
Q Research Scotland #5: Humanity Rising Edition
https://www.thescottishsun.co.uk/news/scottish-news/7678621/scotland-vaccine-passports-october-nightclubs-football/
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VAX VOTE PASSED Scots WILL need vaccine passports for nightclubs and large events after Holyrood vote passed
Ewan MowatDan VeversChris Musson
18:02, 9 Sep 2021Updated: 23:30, 9 Sep 2021
SCOTS WILL need vaccine passports for nightclubs and large events from next month after a proposal was passed in Holyrood.
MSPs backed the move by 68 to 55, after most SNP and Greens politicians voted in favour of the plans - but rivals warned businesses are being "chucked under the bus".
The controversial app-based scheme will kick in on October 1 to "give businesses time to prepare and more people to get vaccinated", and to allow time for the technology to be finished.
Scots face being locked out if they can't show a QR code to prove they've had both vaccines - and those who can't use the app will be able to "request a secure un-editable paper record of vaccination".
Businesses will be required under law to "take all reasonable measures" to "restrict entry only to those fully vaccinated", unless they are exempt.
And firms "will require a hardware mechanism (such as mobile phones) to verify the certificates" - but they will need to meet any additional staffing or infrastructure costs for this themselves.
Nicola Sturgeon announced the move earlier this month, but it was met with opposition by rival parties.
The Scottish Government said the aim of the scheme was to "increase vaccine uptake", with around one in four 18-29s still shunning first doses, and around one in five of 30-39s.
The scheme means that in order to enter specific venues or events, punters must be double vaccinated.
The plans include nightclubs and "sexual entertainment venues", as well as unseated live events with more than 500 people indoors and 4,000 outdoors. All events with over 10,000 people, such as big football matches, will also be included.
However, the government admitted it had not yet defined what a "nightclub" is, after warnings from industry that late bars could fall under the description.
The confusion comes after a row last year over the definition of a cafe, after it was the only kind of hospitality venue allowed to stay open during a Covid shutdown of the sector in the central belt.
Hospitality chiefs were less than impressed with the approval of the passports, amid concerns over potential infringements on freedom and privacy, and the technology not being proven.
The Night Time Industries Association Scotland Commission warned the scheme would "further cripple an industry that has already borne so much".
NTIA Scotland chairman Mike Grieve added: "We are warning the First Minister that by going down the vaccine passports route she is making a serious error."
UK Hospitality Scotland executive director Leon Thompson said: "The Scottish Government has not listened. Our businesses face three weeks in which to prepare for a policy that will put further economic and resourcing pressures on them.
"The government has not consulted with hospitality or produced credible plans for the introduction of passports. It has not even defined what a nightclub is."
Tory leader Douglas Ross said: "Businesses are being chucked under the bus by these plans.
"There seems to be no financial support or assistance available to help them administer and enforce this policy. It will hit them with considerable costs but the SNP don't even know how much."
'RAPID ACTION'
Opening the debate today, Covid Recovery Secretary Mr Swinney said domestic passports were a necessary measure to avoid future lockdowns - despite previously shooting down the scheme.
He told MSPs weekly virus cases had risen from 26,167 to 44,198 in the past fortnight, while hospital patients had soared from 391 to 883.
Mr Swinney said: "The choice we face just now, because of the escalating challenges of Covid, is that we may have to consider further restrictions. We are trying to avoid that consequence."
He said he accepted the timeframe of three weeks until the launch is short but added: "To be effective in the current fragile context we believe we need to take rapid action."
Green minister and party co-leader Patrick Harvie was mocked for backing the policy after blasting the UK version in July as a "dangerous precedent".
Defending his position, he said: "There is a big difference between thinking this policy should be approved when cases were running at a few hundred a day to thinking it is worth considering when cases are running at around 7,000 a day."
This despite many protesters outside in opposition to the dystopian decision making plenty of noise. Maybe this will be the spark to light under the arses of all the thick Celtic and Rangers fans who don't seem to get it and they are all targetted with the death jabs!