Get vaccinated, Matt Hancock tells the young, “do your bit” to protect Granny. To which the under-30s might angrily reply: have you missed all our other “bits”, like paying £9,000 for online universities, toiling in tiny flats, the loneliness? And anyway, it’s months before we can get jabs.
Besides calling upon young people’s altruism, the government is preying on their Fomo (fear of missing out) by waving Covid certificates. Imagine your mates being allowed into clubs, sports stadia, even pubs — but not you!
It’s hard to figure out, after blurry ministerial answers and as yet amorphous plans, what vaccine passports are actually for. (I mean here domestic documents: it now seems a given they’ll be required for foreign travel.) We know they won’t be