OT: Vaccine Passports

With very great difficulty, I managed to get a passport photograph in which I am wearing glasses. The camera never lies = but Photoshop tells fibs.

I have a 'fear' of paying income tax. But have to do it anyway.

Oddly, they seem to satisfy the authorities for travel abroad.

I don't think that is a medically recognised condition.

Your what doesn't have a picture? There's no picture in the NHS app on your phone, they just compare 'you' (as in a video you send them) with your picture on Driving Licence or Passport to verify (ha ha) that you are you.

My paper NHS COVID Pass.

What I want to know is why, the other day, the beetle-browed doorman of the Royal Festival Hall wouldn't allow me to pass without some sort of "app". All I wanted was to use the bog in the basement. At least that is free. Most of the other bogs in central London want 50p or ?1 to enter. Haven't they heard of Brexit?

I've looked at the website that describes the "NHS app" and it seems to me that, rather being something that gives us something extra we didn't have before, it is, or will become, something we *have* to have to do things we are doing already, or things we don't really need. So much for technology.

Jolly well *should* be. --

"In one word, you reproach us with intending to do away with your property. Precisely so; that is just what we intend."

- The Communist Manifesto, Marx & Engels.

It allows me to look at my medical records back to 1993 far more easily than the online system at the surgery.

The last time I applied for a passport, the instructions said to not wear glasses for the photo.

My paper certificate from the Scottish NHS was accepted in the US.

But not in Irish restaurants. Or at least, that was my friend?s recent experience.

Tim

Trouble is I wear glasses all the time, The facial recognition stuff at LHR would let me through until I took my glasses off. Then where was I?

It's not that I can't follow instructions, it's that previously it insisted I should verify my identify using photo ID that I simply don't have.

However, the app has changed and by logging in, without verifying my identity, I can now get a domestic covid QR code that lasts two days.

For foreign travel I would still need to verify my ID, but then for most foreign travel, I'd need a passport anyway.

Also I need to verify ID to book appointments, see prescriptions not that I have any, and view my health records.

Yes, the one time I tried using the biometric gates at arrivals, it didn't recognise me, after several attempts I heard a booming voice over the tannoy "Mr Burns ... you need to remove your glasses"

Which as somebody who needs complex lenses, I have always ignored. They have never refused to accept the photo, even on the latest biometric passport. However, the frames are very thin and almost invisible in the pictures. Geek chic frames might cause a problem.

then you need to raise a complaint

this is a trivial admin task that requires no human interaction at all beyond a phone call (though they may insist of posting the information for data protection purposes).

well that's a different matter

so you actually got it to work

all I got was the revolving circle saying "waiting" (or whatever) for multiple minutes until I gave up

I thought perhaps it was because I had one of those aforementioned "old" phones, so tried again after I upgraded, and got exactly the same result.

so have I

but there's no linkage between the two, other than they use the same codes to register. And if you've lost those codes you have to get them again. You can't use the fact that you are online via an alternative application to activate the NHS app.

tim