With capacity limits disappearing when will a DC or DMV vaccination passport come online?

[Anonymous]

If I decide to go to a restaurant and eat inside unmasked, how will the restaurant verify that I am vaccinated? I realize that I have to remain masked for air travel, but that will change at some point. Wouldn't I need a vaccination passport to check onto that flight (I have a flight to see a new grandchild next month)?

How is the whole "If you are vaccinated you can go maskless" supposed to be actually verified? Won't we just be creating issues if unvaccinated people unknowingly or unwittingly start getting exposed in a maskless area but potentially can get infected by other non vaccinated people.

NY and Hawaii already have vaccination passports. Are we going to have something soon?

[Anonymous]

It's a great question but the topic is pretty much cancer here. Nobody wants to touch it with a ten foot pole. It is considered extreme by "both" sides.

The fact that NY and HI have adopted a passport makes me believe that it is possible it can spread in the US and then with the UK and the EU both saying this week that they will allow Americans who are vaccinated to visit this summer and use their vaccine passport programs, I think that this thing can make inroads.

But there is ZERO political will to move this forward really in the US. We are too worried about making people feel bad.

[Anonymous]

When you look at statistics of various populations that REALLY do not want the vaccine, it’s obvious that telling yourself it is a “right wing trumper” position has some truth but isn’t anywhere close to the full story.

Hence, zero chance of this moving forward and businesses that insist on this can credibly be accused of social injustice.

[Anonymous]

MoCo is dropping all restrictions on the 28th. A passport would literally be considered a new restriction. No masks are required by anyone anywhere Starting May 28th. Vaccination status does not matter.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:MoCo is dropping all restrictions on the 28th. A passport would literally be considered a new restriction. No masks are required by anyone anywhere Starting May 28th. Vaccination status does not matter.

Businesses and private entities can have whatever restrictions they want. I would expect some places where kids gather to have restrictions, for sure.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:MoCo is dropping all restrictions on the 28th. A passport would literally be considered a new restriction. No masks are required by anyone anywhere Starting May 28th. Vaccination status does not matter.

Businesses and private entities can have whatever restrictions they want. I would expect some places where kids gather to have restrictions, for sure.

To be honest, I don't expect any business to add any restrictions, for sure.

[Anonymous]

HIPAA violation.

People nor businesses have no rights to demand my health information upon request. You base decisions for the public based on epidemiological data and other meta data available.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:HIPAA violation.

People nor businesses have no rights to demand my health information upon request. You base decisions for the public based on epidemiological data and other meta data available.

^^^^doesn't understand HIPAA

NO, this is NOT a HIPAA violation.

[Anonymous]

Never. There will be no vaccine passports.

Rightwingers and rightwing media politicized masks. Then they politicized vaccine passports. 45% of the country is not making rational decisions about COVID, because they believe lies from rightwing media.

[Anonymous]

Businesses definitely won't ask for proof of anything. The last thing they want right now is a reason to turn off paying customers.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:If I decide to go to a restaurant and eat inside unmasked, how will the restaurant verify that I am vaccinated? I realize that I have to remain masked for air travel, but that will change at some point. Wouldn't I need a vaccination passport to check onto that flight (I have a flight to see a new grandchild next month)?

How is the whole "If you are vaccinated you can go maskless" supposed to be actually verified? Won't we just be creating issues if unvaccinated people unknowingly or unwittingly start getting exposed in a maskless area but potentially can get infected by other non vaccinated people.

NY and Hawaii already have vaccination passports. Are we going to have something soon?

Nope. You don't now and you probably never will for a domestic flight. Airlines will not require it.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:HIPAA violation.

People nor businesses have no rights to demand my health information upon request. You base decisions for the public based on epidemiological data and other meta data available.

^^^^doesn't understand HIPAA

NO, this is NOT a HIPAA violation.

A vaccine passport sounds like a good idea until you realize there are onerous legal liabilities. Any business collecting health information is still required to report any leak of health info. Therefore, millions of small businesses asking for a vax passport will be required to report any dissemination of vax status if it gets leaked after collecting such information. If they don't report to all individuals affected from a data leak they could be sued.

[Anonymous]

It’s not going to happen. The US is moving to the “honor system,” which is obviously a joke given the lack of honor in this country.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:HIPAA violation.

People nor businesses have no rights to demand my health information upon request. You base decisions for the public based on epidemiological data and other meta data available.

^^^^doesn't understand HIPAA

NO, this is NOT a HIPAA violation.

A vaccine passport sounds like a good idea until you realize there are onerous legal liabilities. Any business collecting health information is still required to report any leak of health info. Therefore, millions of small businesses asking for a vax passport will be required to report any dissemination of vax status if it gets leaked after collecting such information. If they don't report to all individuals affected from a data leak they could be sued.

They don't have to collect information if all they're doing is asking you to show your passport to enter. No data to leak that way.

[Anonymous]

Nope, they're basically putting everything on the honor system (or worse, with states like MD not even having a nominal requirement for unvaccinated people to wear masks inside) and putting people who've struggled to get vaccinated, immunocompromised people, and kids at risk, just to cater to whiny people who are slightly inconvenienced by wearing a mask indoors.