Coronavirus: Better Call Sol - CORONAMANIA (21 Viewers)

[magicbastarder]

i don't recall being asked for my passport number. PPSN, yes.

 

[flashback]

i don't recall being asked for my passport number. PPSN, yes.

I'm not sure if they asked for my passport number, or magically knew it. But they did have it there, they asked for a scan of my passport to make sure it aligned with their records (which I happened to have on my phone), I showed him the scan and they compared what I guessed was the number and name to something on their screen and seemed happy enough.

So they definitely knew my passport number, and could pull up passport info, put it that way. Then they read off a load of other info to doubly confirm things with the name change bit, but yeah, they have that to hand.

All of this came up because my name wasn't quite right.

 

[Reets]

All done in the Helix. A good mix of us good looking types. I didnt know my PPS number but the attractive person that asked me did.

I’m there this afternoon. Were you in there long?

 

[Unicron]

I'm not sure if they asked for my passport number, or magically knew it. But they did have it there, they asked for a scan of my passport to make sure it aligned with their records (which I happened to have on my phone), I showed him the scan and they compared what I guessed was the number and name to something on their screen and seemed happy enough.

So they definitely knew my passport number, and could pull up passport info, put it that way. Then they read off a load of other info to doubly confirm things with the name change bit, but yeah, they have that to hand.

All of this came up because my name wasn't quite right.

I presented my driver's licence rather than passport. I assumed that it was just for increased likelihood that the person presenting themselves as me was me based on me being in possession of it because they couldn't use the photo to verify identity. It didn't occur to me that they could use something on the license to cross reference against some other info they had on me.

 

[flashback]

I presented my driver's licence rather than passport. I assumed that it was just for increased likelihood that the person presenting themselves as me was me based on me being in possession of it because they couldn't use the photo to verify identity. It didn't occur to me that they could use something on the license to cross reference against some other info they had on me.

Oh yeah, I used my (American) license as ID, since that's all I had.

But despite that they pulled up the passport info in a few seconds. The lad told me what he was doing, told me why, talked about this covid passport thing (I forget the details of what he said). Once he had all the info in front of him he asked if I had a copy of my passport so he could compare it to their records.

 

[GARYXKNIFEDX]

I don't have a passport.
And never owned an Irish one. Driver's license for me.

 

[Lili Marlene]

This friday for me, have to get up early and get a bus to Tralee, bloody pain but I suppose it'll be worth it. Might want to hurry up getting a car already.

 

[Unicron]

What are the official current rules for someone who lands on the island of Ireland via NI but then travels south of the border? Are they supposed to quarantine when they enter the state?

 

[chris d]

I’m there this afternoon. Were you in there long?

No, I arrived 5 minutes before my appointment on the dot. About 18 minutes from first queue to jab.

 

[Anthony]

Didn't they pull up your passport number and PPS number at the registration thing in the vaccination center?

Yes PPS and ID but they wrote Macken on the thing. Annoying.

 

[chris d]

39 year old mate in D4 is still waiting on his appointment. Northside for ever.

 

[pete]

I suppose my point is that saying "duhhh, they have all our data anyway, just give up already" is pretty much giving people political will to enforce whatever the hell they like

I get that, and I agree. But in this particular case that ship has sailed - if you wanted a vaccination you had to register. What were the alternatives? Open it up to everyone anonymously, and have a free for all? I don’t see any way around having a central register. The issue for me comes down to what happens to the accumulated COVID vaccination program data once the COVID emergency is over. Will it be deleted as it’s no longer needed for the purpose it was gathered for?

 

[Lili Marlene]

I get that, and I agree. But in this particular case that ship has sailed - if you wanted a vaccination you had to register. What were the alternatives? Open it up to everyone anonymously, and have a free for all? I don’t see any way around having a central register. The issue for me comes down to what happens to the accumulated COVID vaccination program data once the COVID emergency is over. Will it be deleted as it’s no longer needed for the purpose it was gathered for?

So why does the guy who knows more about data protection than all of us put together, who has brought the Irish government to the courts over data protection and won, say there is no centralized database? What's going on?

 

[pete]

So why does the guy who knows more about data protection than all of us put together, who has brought the Irish government to the courts over data protection and won, say there is no centralized database? What's going on?

That I do not know.

 

[magicbastarder]

show him this thread.

 

[pete]

I think he was opposing the creation of a new database just on the general principle of the thing, and he’s right.

But we can all log in on vaccine3.hse.ie and check our vaccination status, soooo…..

 

[David Kronenbourg]

cancel him. cancel the fucker.

 

[pete]

Also just learned that the official name for the moderna vaccine is Spikevax

Punk. As. Fuck.

 

[dudley]

ok now I'm worried that they misspelled my name on the little card I was given.

Mickey?

 

[GARYXKNIFEDX]

So we finished for summer today.
7 classes out because of covid. Don't think any of them made it to the school alert pages.