Originally Posted by
LETTERBOY
Regarding the issue of coronavirus passports, for returning American citizens, they can just use their CDC cards. It'd be monumentally stupid for the US government to not accept the proof they give to their own people. For EU visitors, they should be able to figure out how to use whatever EU passes are being used there. If they don't want to use the EU passes, they can just require tests.
I don't think there's any need to even ask returning US citizens to show a CDC card if the administration is worried about the optics. I'd hope Biden could say something like, "Entry into the United States for our citizens will always be guaranteed, regardless of where you're coming from or whether you're vaccinated. Americans will never be asked to prove their vaccination status in order to enter their own country. In these uncertain times we think it's right to ask those people visiting our country to show proof of vaccination until we can be confident we've brought this virus under control." However, there are so many nutters influencing the general US political discourse that even that would probably still be billed as the start of a slippery slope towards federally-mandated vaccine passports.