Montgomery County Vaccine Passport Coming

[Anonymous]

Not one to be outdone by its neighbors, Montgomery County politicians are ready to go with their Vaccine Passport.

https://bethesdamagazine.com/bethesda-beat/montgomery-county-hopes-to-follow-d-c-with-vaccine-passport/

Looks like I’m heading to Frederick for shopping and restaurants. What is wrong with our politicians?

[Anonymous]

Good. I’m for vaccine passports. It lets me know who the smart people are.

[Anonymous]

Amazing news! It’ll bring peace of mind and safety to so many and drive the selfish idiots like OP further away!

Win win. Hope you have a credit card with good gas points, OP!

[Anonymous]

I am vaccinated and boostered and I wear a mask but something about a vaccine passport, showing proof, doesn’t sit well with me. How will it be enforced? Is my passport going to be scanned at businesses? Will this information be reported back to a government entity? Is it just theater?

[Anonymous]

Good. If you don't want to get vaccinated, please do go shop somewhere else.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Not one to be outdone by its neighbors, Montgomery County politicians are ready to go with their Vaccine Passport.

https://bethesdamagazine.com/bethesda-beat/montgomery-county-hopes-to-follow-d-c-with-vaccine-passport/

Looks like I’m heading to Frederick for shopping and restaurants. What is wrong with our politicians?

What is wrong with you?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Good. I’m for vaccine passports. It lets me know who the smart people are.

The smart people know that you can still get and transmit Covid even if you are vaccinated. And so, this type of nonsense means nothing.

It’s all political theater. And bad theater, at that.

[Anonymous]

I'm French, and already have my Pass Sanitaire (soon to be updated to Pass Vaccinal).

This is good news.

[Anonymous]

Not gonna happen.

[Anonymous]

With Omicron spreading amongst the vaccinated (look at the colleges) does this even matter?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Not gonna happen.

Why? We are the most pro-vax county (have highest vax rates) in the country. Tons of places already have vax passports--CA, Washington state, Colorado, NYC, etc. Why would we not want to make it easy to zip in and out of places that choose to verify vax status?

This doesn't mean business have to require vaccinations--it's just a way to make it easier if they want to. I am already patronizing places in MoCo that check vax status (ranging from Strathmore to Jose Andres restaurants to Marjorie Merriwather Post). Most places don't. Vax passports don't force businesses to start requiring vaccines, they just make it more efficient for those that do.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:With Omicron spreading amongst the vaccinated (look at the colleges) does this even matter?

Of course it doesn’t. That’s why it’s all for show.

Or are they going to expect restaurants to also ask for a proof of booster? And they’d have to check the date, of course, to make sure the booster was at the right time.

Because you know, that’s what restaurant owners want to be doing right now.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:
I'm French, and already have my Pass Sanitaire (soon to be updated to Pass Vaccinal).

This is good news.

LOL! Ha! I love it. Yes, let’s definitely enforce a ‘Sanitary Pass’ here in Montgomery County to weed out all the filthy, dirty unvaccinated people.

[Anonymous]

If vaccinated people are getting it, why the need for a vaccine passport? Seems silly at this point.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Not gonna happen.

Why? We are the most pro-vax county (have highest vax rates) in the country. Tons of places already have vax passports--CA, Washington state, Colorado, NYC, etc. Why would we not want to make it easy to zip in and out of places that choose to verify vax status?

This doesn't mean business have to require vaccinations--it's just a way to make it easier if they want to. I am already patronizing places in MoCo that check vax status (ranging from Strathmore to Jose Andres restaurants to Marjorie Merriwather Post). Most places don't. Vax passports don't force businesses to start requiring vaccines, they just make it more efficient for those that do.



Every time the idea comes up, it disappears soon after. I see this would be for restaurants and other places where people are maskless. Do you want to be the business owner vax scanner a police officer who wants to patronize your business but who may or may not be vaxxed? If you are a council member, do you really want to alienate the union trades and professions who may or may not have unvaccinated members? Not. Gonna. Happen.