A human rights expert believes that the vaccine now makes restrictions on the freedoms we live in unnecessary. The government is now proposing Norwegian vaccination certificate.
Many countries are currently working on introducing vaccine passports, which will give the vaccinated more opportunities and rights than the unvaccinated.
On Wednesday, Prime Minister Erna Solberg (H) confirmed that Norwegian residents who have been vaccinated, infected or tested negative for the coronavirus will be certified according to the EU vaccine passport.
- The government is also investigating whether a simplified version of the coronavirus certificate can also be used in the country. Just to be able to open faster and faster, said Solberg.
Aksel Braanen Sterri is a PhD student in philosophy at UiO and also holds an MA in Political Science. Supports the introduction of vaccine passports.
- The spread of the virus made it necessary to significantly limit our freedom. But if it's the case that a few of us are no longer contagious and therefore no longer a threat, then there is no longer any reason to limit that freedom, says Sterri.
- Then we should be able to live as normally as possible.
Vaccination pressure
The government is also working to assess its own advice to people fully vaccinated. Exactly what benefits those vaccinated might gain is currently unclear.
- For example, it may be important to open up to dismissal from your home office. Additionally, one household may be allowed to be visited by several people. We will also look at the rules of infection quarantine, entry quarantine and waiting quarantine for vaccinated people, said the Prime Minister.
FHI's chief physician Preben Aavitsland said it was problematic to secure vaccine certificates. Among other things, it points out that people who have not received the vaccine may face discrimination or a ban on staying in crowded places.
He also fears that the program will put pressure on those who refuse to vaccinate.
However, Braanen Sterri believes that this is a good reason to exert such pressure and that it should not prevent people from taking the vaccine.
- Today it is so that many people freedom was restricted. Vaccination will restore that freedom. So I think it can be said that it is justified to exert such additional pressure, says the political scientist who first wrote on the subject column in Aftenposten.
