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Pass Vaccinale, Anti-Covid app

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 The Anti-Covid app is quite well-designed.  It stores the user's covid-vaccine status within a QR code that then is readily checked by any shop-owner or museum-clerk, et al.    But, how to get our pass vaccinale, as we received our vaccines in the US, where things are not so automated...

First my note to some friends in France:

Et maintenant, il faut déterminer le procès pour convertir nos cartes vaccinales américaines aux passes sanitaires numériques!  Nous avons pris, bien sûr, les trois doses Pfizer; mais le gouvernement des états-(des)uniens n’est pas si avancé que La Belle France. ..pas de code-QR, seulement les cartes (ou les photos des cartes) comme au 20ème siècle! 

We got the pass vaccinale at the https://pharmacies.pharmaciengiphar.com/nouvelle-aquitaine/lot-et-garonne/beauville/pharmacie-des-arcades-875

though the pharmacist was quite unsure about the process.  

He mistakenly entered my last-vaccine year as 1921!  

This was not uncovered until a few days later when the pass triggered an "invalid" response at a museum – 

fortunately the docent shrugged and let us go; we returned to the pharmacy later and he semi-apologized and took many minutes figuring out how to update my pass and reprint a valid version of the QRcode.

(yes, in French it is a "QR code"  not a code QR)


We drove to Beauville in the afternoon, and got our Pass Vaccinal authenticated at the pharmacy. Fortunately there were no other customers at the time, as it took the kind pharmacist a while to remember how to do the official task. In the end, he was successful, so we have the proper QR code on our AntiCovid app! Perhaps we will go to Chateau de Strialis tomorrow for lunch!

While in Beauville we met Anne from Laroque (with her elderly Scottish Terrier) – after chatting a bit she said “Charles knows everything about Beauville” . We also took a walk around Beauville, using one of your randonnée papers. We were particularly intrigued by the story of the Jardin des Indiens. As the épicerie in Beauville was closed this Wednesday afternoon, we drove to Laroque, to the CarrefourContact shop.

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