I'm actually a bit surprised that action against the store clerks and restaurant staff enforcing this nonsense isn't more common. While killing people isn't likely to be good politics, lesser actions like pepper spray that make staff afraid to ask (esp re: checking green passes) will likely be effective at making the mandates toothless.

They don't have enough police to protect everyone.

@pete
>They don't have enough police to protect everyone.
This is why we shouldn't make it harder on them, when they have actual murderers out there to catch, like this incident. I do like the idea, but we need to make the distinction that it is only effective if the cops are enforcing the bullshit mandates. That's the only time when wasting their resources is a good thing, and even then, arguably not; the goal is to convince them to stop, but if they just prioritise it then it's just making things worse.

@Zerglingman Point is the game theory of this is that staff will stop enforcing it. The next step is either to divert a lot of police forces to protecting those staff (not likely to happen), give up (likely), or at least for vax passports, changing to a strategy of forcing the entire population to get vaxxed directly. The latter is actually an improvement arguably as it removes the privacy concerns of vax passports.

@pete Mmm. Stores will continue to enforce it so long as they believe the police will back them up. Hence, stopping them depends (almost) entirely on stopping the police.

Also reminder that if vaccines are effective, vaccine passports are useless, and if they're not effective, vaccine passports are useless.