Do you have to disclose whether you’ve had vaccine?

Not really, existing SIs don't need legislating once they don't change. It's easy to do for transport and hospitality, far harder where people have a right to be educated.

It seems to be wait and see but for now vaccination is not a requirement to return to wok. Leo, the relevant minister, doesn't want to get involved in it if he can help it. We're also looking at winter from a current dynamic environment of high vaccination rates and a fairly high disease prevalence. It may be very different in 4 weeks.

What is this, a throwback to US segregationist times? I see a whole pile of legal cases in this approach never mind what the DES would do to a school.

Someone might also believe that it's none of anybody's business. Getting a vaccine does not bring with it a requirement to share it with the world.

Not my experience of small talk, people have moved on from COVID in every form. I really have no idea how many people of my acquaintance have been vaccinated nor would I ask nor expect to be asked.

The vast vast majority of people who are vaccinated don’t have the twisted conspiracy theorist worldview of people who refuse to be vaccinated and can therefore see the value in institutions like schools having that information so they can accommodate everyone and keep them safe more effectively.

Sure, there will be some vaccinated people who want to keep it a secret for some reason, but if someone refuses to say it’s almost certainly because they have decided not to get it and have some weird ideological opposition to it.

And people who haven’t been vaccinated for genuine reasons will almost certainly want to disclose it because they’re the ones being put most at risk by the irresponsible and will want the school to help protect them.

I didn’t go to many to begin with but have happily shown the cert, there’s a law requiring this, it’s not voluntary disclosure, there’s a big difference between that and an employer or school asking for information they’re not legally entitled to ask for, if it’s law then fine, if not then no.

I’ve been vaxxed, but I don’t want to live in this new dystopian society where such a question is even considered. F@€k all of that, that’s why I won’t answer. And no, I don’t show a pass either, though I’ve taken a lot of pleasure in eating in, and going for drinks in places where no-one is taking any notice of this stupidity.

I think it is abhorrent of someone to try and compare getting a vaccine during a pandemic to racist segregation, the people that do this are absolute tosspots with no idea of history or what suffering really means. "ooh, I can't eat inside a restaurant because I won't take a free vaccine, I'm Rosa Parks", childish imbeciles.

Some people have a clearly defined sense of privacy, no conspiracies or anything else. That is their right.

It's a proposal for segregation and I see the analogy, you clearly and strongly disagree just as I strongly disagree with the proposal in the first place, but we move on.

No, as said, if they’re legally entitled to ask then fine but I’m not for volunteering if I don’t want to, walking into a restaurant is my choice but in the workplace it’s not, they’re overstepping by asking imo, no problem showing the Cert if I go for lunch with my boss etc but I’m not going to make a declaration if I don’t have to.

Interesting. I was wondering if vaccinated people mind disclosing, or if it's mostly the unvaccinated.

I'm strongly privacy minded, to a degree where I stopped using Facebook and Instagram, and use DuckDuckGo instead of Google, and gmail exclusively as a spam catcher account. But I would have zero issue with telling anyone that I'm vaccinated for Covid - or for Tetanus or Polio, for that matter.

One important thing to consider is the motivation for asking. I would imagine that the motivation for a school to ask is that they have the safety of kids in mind, and are looking for pragmatic ways to keep kids safe.