A molti non piace l’accostamento fra il green pass e la tessera in uso in Italia negli Anni Trenta del Novecento. Ho pensato di venir loro incontro. Forse a costoro infatti piacerà di più un altro accostamento: quello fra il green pass e il “dompas” richiesto ai “non bianchi” in Sud Africa prima dell’abolizione dell’apartheid. La citazione che segue è tratta da una pagina dell’Università dello Stato di New York a Cortland.

“The Pass Laws Act of 1952 required black South Africans over the age of 16 to carry a pass book, known as a dompas, everywhere and at all times. The dompas was similar to a passport, but it contained more pages filled with more extensive information than a normal passport. Within the pages of an individual's dompas was their fingerprints, photograph, personal details of employment, permission from the government to be in a particular part of the country, qualifications to work or seek work in the area, and an employer's reports on worker performance and behaviour”.

https://www.cortland.edu/cgis/suzman/apartheid.html