Oh, it's surprisingly common. There are even occasional bursts of people cutting out the middle-person and going for directly injecting people on the dance floor
It's scary out there
(and don't drive drunk kids; you're risking innocent lives because you're too cheap to get a cab. Not a good look)
The headline overreaches as the article doesn't support the passport dying as much as some early exploration into potential digital variants, and some convenience efforts to not have to show the passport.
Dying would be "most people use the digital variant, it's accepted everywhere and we're phasing out the paper variant".... which sounds like it might happen on the same timeline as large scale fusion energy