{"id":39524,"date":"2021-12-06T11:06:47","date_gmt":"2021-12-06T02:06:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/commentisfree\/2021\/dec\/06\/restaurants-that-reject-vaccine-passes-in-favour-of-equality-for-the-unvaccinated-harm-us-all"},"modified":"2021-12-06T11:06:47","modified_gmt":"2021-12-06T02:06:47","slug":"venues-that-reject-vaccine-passes-in-favour-of-equality-for-the-unvaccinated-are-harming-us-all-philip-mckibbin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=39524","title":{"rendered":"Venues that reject vaccine passes in favour of \u2018equality\u2019 for the unvaccinated are harming us all | Philip McKibbin"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Venues that say they respect personal choices may sound community-minded but really they undermine efforts to keep everyone safe<\/p>\n<p>Like most Aucklanders, I can\u2019t wait to get out of the city. After more than three months in lockdown, I\u2019m keen for a break. Last summer, my partner and I went to Tauranga. We had so much fun that we\u2019re planning to return \u2013 but this time, things will be different.<\/p>\n<p>As Aotearoa New Zealand <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/nov\/22\/new-zealand-set-to-ease-covid-restrictions-and-end-lockdowns-from-december\">shifts from the Covid-19 \u201calert level\u201d system<\/a> to the new \u201ctraffic light\u201d system, hospitality venues have been given a choice. Under the \u201cred\u201d and \u201corange\u201d settings, they can welcome customers inside, but only if they\u2019re willing to check vaccine passes. If they don\u2019t want to do that, their service has to be contactless.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/commentisfree\/2021\/dec\/06\/restaurants-that-reject-vaccine-passes-in-favour-of-equality-for-the-unvaccinated-harm-us-all\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Venues that say they respect personal choices may sound community-minded but really they undermine efforts to keep everyone safeLike most Aucklanders, I can\u2019t wait to get out of the city. After more than three months in lockdown, I\u2019m keen for a break. &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2097,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[41,1066,56,565,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-39524","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-coronavirus","category-new-zealand","category-vaccines-and-immunisation","category-world-news"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39524","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2097"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=39524"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39524\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":39525,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39524\/revisions\/39525"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=39524"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=39524"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=39524"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}