I’m conscious of that: I had to have them. Yellow Fever, Cholera, the pink book etc. But those were required at the bequest of countries to be visited.
This is different, as it’s a private company discriminating on the basis of vaccination status. The significance relates to how I was saying that government promises (that the vaccine wouldn’t be mandatory) were redundant. People will not be able to operate, without the vaccine. And private, unelected institutions, will effect the duress.
In short, and as Truth has pointed out already, government guarantees on this are meaningless unless vaccination status becomes a protected characteristic.
As I’ve said before, it’s the deceit that grates.
I might add that discrimination on the basis of HIV status has (rightly to my mind) largely been made illegal in the UK and the USA. The government could move now to similarly protect people in the context of this new pandemic.