see url:
https://www.theregister.com/2021/07/30/something_for_the_weekend/?td=keepreading-top
see full story...Very funny but very poignant...Applies to France at the
moment, but will be coming to a nation state near you very soon...😉
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Something for the Weekend, Sir?
As I leave the premises face-first, my ears ring with those
oh-so-familiar parting words: "…and never darken our doors again!"
In my mind's eye, I tuck myself into a ball and roll onto the pavement
and allow the kinetic energy to bring me back up to standing. I turn
around, trying to conjure a witty riposte but all I can think of by the
time I open my mouth is "Ha!" A passer-by drops a coin at my feet,
assuming I might be a particularly crap but evidently desperate street
acrobat.
I'd like to think I learnt this rolling trick from karate lessons but I
probably owe it to my snowboarding years. Snowboarders tend to get more
snow on their arses than on their boots and you learn to get up quickly
after face-planting. In theory, if you can choreograph the
getting-up-after-falling-over into a continuous movement, onlookers
might be fooled into thinking it was a trick you did on purpose.
Mme D asks me why I said "Ha!" just now and could I please get a move on.
Like Patrick Duffy in the shower, it was all a dream. None of the above
happened. I am yet to enter the building. Phew!
It's the city library. There is no bouncer scowling at the queue leading
to the entrance; in fact, there's no queue at all. I just walk in via
the automatic doors to be met by kindly looking library staff
brandishing clipboards and smartphones. I'm not asking for much but my
worst fears are about to be tested: I am going to be scanned.
Here in France, it is no longer possible to gain admission into a public
building without showing a pass sanitaire – a QR code that indicates you
have received two anti-COVID vaccinations; or that you previously
suffered from COVID but aren't dead; or that you very recently took a
COVID test which came up negative. You are given a printout of the
appropriate code every time you get a jab, every time you catch COVID,
and every time you don't catch COVID.
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