What mechanism stops people from forging the original vaccine cards?
In Canada you can receive up to $20,000 in fines for falsifying this information, so you really have to want to avoid the shots badly if you wanted to go down that route.
But the reality is, most places that aren't medical or international border facilities, that would require proof of vaccination simply don't have the ability to verify any of the current certificates. Including the original CDC cards from the US.
The website and domain whois info don't say who these people are, and don't ever mention they are in any way connected to the CDC. It looks like all they do is take the hand-written parts of your original cards and plug them into their template that may or may not be using the CDC logo and identity legally.
> “What mechanism stops people from forging the original vaccine cards?”
None, and that’s the real problem of the CDC cards. For a service like this to succeed, it needs to come up with a verifiable solution, which I admit is pretty difficult to do other than on a federal or state level.
In Canada you can receive up to $20,000 in fines for falsifying this information, so you really have to want to avoid the shots badly if you wanted to go down that route.
But the reality is, most places that aren't medical or international border facilities, that would require proof of vaccination simply don't have the ability to verify any of the current certificates. Including the original CDC cards from the US.
The website and domain whois info don't say who these people are, and don't ever mention they are in any way connected to the CDC. It looks like all they do is take the hand-written parts of your original cards and plug them into their template that may or may not be using the CDC logo and identity legally.