The Covid certificate requirement is not discriminatory
In an opinion piece in the ETH Zukunftsblog, Dario Meili argues that the outcry about the Covid certificate is not only misguided, but also blurs the concept of discrimination and, by doing so, undermines the rationale for addressing prevailing injustices.
Since the Federal Council implemented Covid certification for restaurants and indoor public spaces, a debate has been raging over whether this constitutes discrimination against the unvaccinated. Comparisons have even been drawn to apartheid in South Africa or the persecution of Jews under the Nazi regime.
“Not only are such comparisons absurd, they also blur the concept of discrimination and, by doing so, undermine the rationale for addressing prevailing injustices”, says Dario Meili, who explores discrimination in his doctoral thesis at the ETH Development Economics Group. The certificate requirement undoubtedly constitutes unequal treatment. But why it is out of all proportion to speak of discrimination in the case of the Covid certificate requirement, Dario explains in a recent post for the ETH Zukunftsblog.
"Why the Covid certificate requirement is not discriminatory"