Maria Alvarez: ‘Are Covid passports a threat to liberty?’

Professor Alvarez is the head of the Philosophy department at King’s College London. She works on agency, choice, and moral responsibility. Her piece on Covid passports was recently published in The Guardian: read the full text here.

Now that the UK’s vaccination programme is beginning to offer an escape route out of lockdown restrictions, despite some hitches, attention is focusing on so-called domestic vaccine passports. Important details remain uncertain but the idea has already been criticised as potentially “divisive and discriminatory.”

Reposted from King’s Philosophy

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