Campus Coronavirus Symptom Smartphone App - Part 2

The Sculpture Garden yesterday.

We recently posted about the new smartphone app which provides a procedure for obtaining a "pass" to come on campus and enter buildings.* Yours truly tried it yesterday. The first thing to note is that it will only work - now that we are passed the Sept. 9 deadline for mandated vaccinations - if UCLA has a record of your vaccination(s). In fact, applying for a day pass seems to be the only way to ascertain that UCLA does in fact have your proof of vaccination and has accepted it as valid. So, even if you don't plan to come to campus but want to be sure your proof was accepted, you can apply for a pass and see if the app will provide you with one. 

In any event, the app worked for yours truly. The north campus still was relatively deserted, although there were lots of students up on the hill where the dorms are and parents dropping them off there.

When yours truly entered the building containing his office, there was no one to look at his pass. Whether there will be someone to verify permissions when classes begin is an interesting question. Indeed, exactly how UCLA is going to police the mandate is unclear. Not let unvaccinated students register for courses? Cut off pay for unvaccinated staff and faculty?

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*http://uclafacultyassociation.blogspot.com/2021/09/campus-coronavirus-symptom-smartphone.html.